Cheri Arfsten

Ten Reasons to Shop at Your Local Farmers Market

1. Fresh Produce Yes, this seems to be a no-brainer, but most produce you will find in your local supermarket has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles before it arrives in the produce section. In order for the fruits and vegetables to appear fresh and recently picked, they are harvested when they are still green so they can withstand the journey of days or even weeks. A lot of the

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Affected

SCENE I Dell is returning from a business trip and is shown tiredly walking to her car at Reagan National airport. She fumbles for her keys, unlocks the car, throws her suitcase in the back seat, collapses into the driver’s seat, shuts her door, then silence. Snow falls lightly outside her window. She starts the car and waits for it to warm up. Large circles of light are visible in

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Locked in a Frame

When I was a child, we always sped through the Painted Desert in the Navajo Nation on our way to my grandparents’ house in Sun City, leaving nothing behind but the tailwinds from the car. I scanned that vast expanse of land and sky, the colors of the soil rich with brilliant pinks, muted reds, and sage green, the sky always a clear, crisp blue, colors as uncontainable and free

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Assorted Works

Voyeur

This was taken in the Chimayo area of New Mexico. The walls surrounding this house / compound must have been at least 10 feet high, and as I was walking along the wall, really wanting to know what was on the other side, I came upon this half open door. For a split second, I thought the nude statue was a real person and I was really embarrassed for us

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