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From The Recesses – Ruminations At A Wedding

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A few months back, I was at a wedding in Guatemala City. I’d been warned that it would be a full hour-and-a-half-long service. Worse, the acoustics of the room, while friendly to Gregorian chanters, were less so to a speaking voice. As much of this service would be in muffled, aurally confounding Spanish, I knew I wasn’t going to understand a thing.

I was distracted and fidgety even before the service began. This often happens to me in churches. Maybe it’s the feeling of enforced duty. Maybe it is that I feel more disconnected from God in a church than practically anywhere else in the world. For me it often feels like the church building itself is a shield through which radiant thoughts cannot pass.

Still, I’ve trained myself to behave for the few hours every year I’m required to be in a traditional house of worship. But it requires focus and a mental detachment from my surroundings if I don’t want to break out in hives.

And I’m speaking literally about the hives. Something very similar happens when… full story HERE »

Letter From The Editors – May / June 2013

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Until recently, I’d been down for a few months. Nothing terrible, just a case of walking-ennui, probably picked up from a wandering Parisian while knocking back an absinthe at the Bistro a couple months back. Suddenly, the world seemed like it had gone all soggy and drab. Nothing was… full story HERE »

Featured Artist – Keith L. Andrews

La Última Cena: 123/4" H x 91/2" W x 21/2'' D — Polymer Clay

In a recent interview with La Cuadra, sculptor Keith L. Andrews said that his life had unfolded in stages, “like the life of an insect.” It was an intriguing observation from an intriguing man.

Each stage, he says, is about twenty-one years in length. The early years were spent in preparation and… full story HERE »

Featured Story – The Trial of Efraín Ríos Montt

Efraín Ríos Montt at Trial. Photo by  J. Rodriguez / mimundo.org

Just prior to his stunning conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity, former Guatemalan dictator Gen. José Efraín Ríos Montt protested in open court: “I was not a company commander, I was not a zone commander, I was not a patrol commander — I was chief of state! I never… full story HERE »

The NRA Reaches Out to The Nation’s Homicidal Madmen

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At a press conference held earlier today at the Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters of the National Rifle Association, NRA President Wayne LaPierre issued a plea for “restraint” in the “rampaging-gunman community” while the United States Congress prepares to debate new firearms regulations.

“As most cold-blooded spree killers know, this is… full story HERE »

Featured Story – Barillas At The Crossroads

Hidro Santa Cruz over The Q’ambalam River.

Rocael is Q’anjob’al Maya. He lives in Cantón Recreo B, in the Guatemalan highland town of Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango. He is married and has one daughter. He is 20 years old and studying to be a teacher. And for the first time in his life, on May 1,… full story HERE »

First Person Shooter – Three Truths

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The Red Suit

I had the benefit of hearing this story twice. Ali told it to me once, and then I got to hear him tell it to an unknown couple that we invited to sit at our table in some bar a few years later. I realized with the… full story HERE »

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