James BigBoy Medlin
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
WHY NOT? / Nothing Happening, So Much Going On
(not a poem, just a prattle) ~ with apologies to Bob Wills and Asleep at the Wheel ~ Who's that guy with the red tie on? Some folks call...
Danny N. Schweers
- Jun 25, 2020
- 1 min
Photo Prayer / July 2020
Look at me! Look at me! cry the blossoms of the weeping cherry. I was on my way to watch morning prayer on the Internet when the flowers...
Michael Ventura
- Jun 14, 2020
- 17 min
Ventura at 4am / History as Oneself
April 4, 1968 – New York City As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love....
Jedediah Purdy / The New Yorker
- Jun 12, 2020
- 5 min
Outside Sources / Environmentalism's Racist History
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted...
Clay Coppedge
- Jun 10, 2020
- 9 min
A Bolillo’s Short History of Roy’s Taxi
My sometimes exciting career as an Austin cab driver began in 1977 when, looking for something better from a base of zero, I walked to 90...
James BigBoy Medlin / Art by Dan Hubig
- Jun 10, 2020
- 6 min
WHY NOT? / President By Knockout
That highly anticipated first sip of morning coffee had just crossed my lips when I involuntarily spewed it out Danny Thomas style, in...
Christopher Brown / All Photos: Christopher Brown
- Jun 7, 2020
- 7 min
Field Notes / Black Nature Writing ~ Stories of Braver Solos
This column is about walking alone in nature. Mostly with an inclusive idea of what constitutes “nature”—the degraded urban wilderness of...