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November 4, 2025

The Reluctant Disney Artist Who Captured Magic

Donald Towns never wanted to work for Disney. Standing in his studio today, surrounded by canvases that capture fleeting moments of light on everyday objects, the 35-year animation veteran laughs at the irony. “I wasn’t interested at all,” he admits, brush in hand, working on a piece where afternoon sun transforms an ordinary leaf into... Read More
Cover Features
October 15, 2025

Ideal

Brilliant, diamond facets glisten, radiant as if finger fitted suns. Worn as rings, nuptial treasures, they showcase love, true, unbreakable, obvious, radiant as any bride’s smile, impervious as trust that has no hardness scale.
Poet's Corner
October 8, 2025

July in October

No, this isn’t about global warming. But if there can be “Christmas in July,” well, perhaps there can be “July in October!” (not as big a jump as the former, and in the opposite direction). One day back in July, I set out on my regular walk at Ballou Park. The day was already starting... Read More
Essays
October 2, 2025

From Martinsville to Brooklyn: How One Designer’s Vision Created a Global Tapestry of Peace

After eight years of painstaking research and collaboration with over 100 artists worldwide, Johnny Selman’s Peace Post project—a collection of 198 digital stamps honoring peace advocates from every sovereign nation—is finally complete. It’s been many miles from Martinsville, Virginia, where his creative journey began. Small-Town Roots, Big-World Vision Growing up in 1980s Martinsville, Selman belonged... Read More
Cover Features
September 16, 2025

What’s on Your Bucket List?

The Labor Day holiday is often thought of as the end of summer, but the calendar shows September 22nd as the last day of summer. If you live in South-Central Virginia, the summer heat does not stop until October. By that time, one may really want a break from the summer heat. This is one... Read More
The Wine Spot
September 13, 2025

Stronger

Strength. How must it be measured? What is its nature? Metal or mental? Useful? Or not? Consider its worth. Can it help? Or heal? When is its use apropos? Only the weaker ones know, to treasure their strength for use in ways that guard them.
Poet's Corner
September 11, 2025

 Remembering Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffett

In early fall of last year, I was driving south on Piedmont Drive with the afternoon sun in my eyes, while approaching the permanently closed Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet, up ahead and to my right. To my “late-afternoon sun-blinded amazement,” I was able to make out a number of sunlit windshields in the parking... Read More
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