Posts Tagged by AK
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.…
But the Other Does Not
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by Callid under Poetry, Social Change, Spirituality, Writing |
But the Other Does Not By Gail Edgerly One Yupik has a fish but the other does not. Why? Bad attitude? Thievery? Negligence? Lack? Did he even want the fish? Why do we assume one has and one has not. Maybe the neighbor without the fish has, and the has, has not. Why…
