Category: Placed-Based
My Chinese New Year
| November 27, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Memoir, Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Writing |
My Chinese New Year Wendy Chan Chinatown, Manhattan. That’s pretty much where I grew up. It’s bombarded with all types of people. The elderly people who love to take their morning strolls and stretch their aged bodies on the monkey bars in Columbus Park. The women and men of varying ages elongating their lives through…
Community Piece
| November 10, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Writing |
Community Piece Lisa Cohen For me, I have multiple homes but only one that makes me feel like I’m a part of something bigger – a community. Home, in my life, is wherever my family is and my home is also where I go to school. My family home is split up between my…
Lived Here Long Enough…
| November 10, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Writing |
Lived Here Long Enough… Victoria Levitt I remember calling a moving company when my husband and I were preparing to move here. The man on the other end of the phone said, “That’s pretty far north! Is it even settled up there yet?” I admit that as the twenty-something-year-old wife of a newly minted…
Concrete Steps
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Audio, Placed-Based, Poetry, Social Change, Writing |
Prompt: After listening to Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come,” write about a personal or global change you want to see in the world. What are the small steps that we could take toward making that change? What would the world look like if it changed in this way? Concrete Steps Jen Chau The…
Last Letter Writers
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Writing |
Last Letter Writers Spoon Jackson Could you imagine a world without artists? No composers, no painters, no actors, no writers, no sculptors, no singers, no musicians, no film-makers, no dancers, and no poets. What is a world without hand-held, heart-written, letters? An unnatural, barren landscape, a touch of lips instead of a kiss. People in…
Community
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Spirituality, Writing |
Community By Robert Staedel Jr. There is a group of geese in our yard who feed on the grass together, and as I Walk by them there is always one goose who stops eating and keeps an eye on me. This enables the other geese in the group to feel safe in a protected cluster…
Community
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Spirituality, Writing |
Community Wakiri Ologun Community is the backbone of humanity; it’s what sustains our sense of self: a patch work of individual relationships, both diverse and complex, unified under a single goal. That is the actual definition of community. It’s a grand overview of a simple topic that most of us take for granted. Being born…
Where Neighbor Meant Something
| September 27, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Placed-Based, Writing |
Prompt: “Once a Yup’ik had a fish, but his neighbor had none…” By: Ela Harrison Gordon …and because this was a place where the word ‘neighbor’ meant something, referred to a person of family whose home bordered night upon one’s own, we can safely surmise that the Yup’ik shared the fish with his neighbor. Now, neighbor…
Some Kind of Hallelujah
| September 21, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Placed-Based, Writing |
Some Kind of Hallelujah by Tom Reed “I got a fish.” “Shit. I didn’t get any.” “Lets build a fire and cook it.” They gathered driftwood and built a fire, and when there were coals, he laid the salmon there and covered it with seaweed. The salmon came every summer. They came to spawn in…
The Yupik Legend Fish War
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Fiction, Non-Fiction, Placed-Based, Social Change, Writing |
The Yupik Legend Fish War By Kat Haber Yupik Legend: “Once a man had a fish, but his neighbor had none.” They did not claim to know why they had it all, only noticing that as global communications pulled together the family of man, ever tighter, they became aware of the other who had none.…
