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The Birth Pains

Todd Fabyanic

Exploring the grand tapestry of existence, where dreams are woven with threads of stardust and whispered hopes, one might say that the world is not unraveling but instead knitting itself into a grand design. Picture it: each generation is like a colorful yarn, twisting and turning as the old fades and the new springs forth like daffodils after a long winter.

Transformation, Butterflies and Goo Dealing with Changes

Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D

Previous models for positive thinking will not be effective in this transformational era. Even though humanity is reaching out for answers to guide us as old ways of believing and living are collapsing, it is useful to understand we do not have the answers everything we grasp for is based on outdated ideas for an era that is ending.

How Fascism Corrupts Art: What Tyranny’s Love for Wagner reveals about Toxic Worship

Priya Sridhar

For better or for worse, Wagner’s music inspired Adolf Hitler. Seventy years did nothing to mar the composer’s anti-Semitic views and vitriol. Wagner took great pride in his composition and conducting, but that same pride would blind him to the moral hazard of his views. Exile meant that he valued his homeland to the point of disparaging others, including fellow Jewish composers. While Wagner died before seeing Hitler’s worship, he impacted tyrannical culture. Hitler adopted the musician as his symbol and a mirror for systematic genocide. .

Arabesque An Art of Connections, A Poetics of the Swerve

L. Martina Young

Exploring the concept of the ‘arabesque’ through its origins in Persian aesthetics, somatic ways of knowing, Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and David Bohm’s physics, this essay offers a timely response to poet and Humanities scholar Joan Retallack’s provocation, “How can one frame a poetics of the swerve, a constructive preoccupation with what are unpredictable forms of change?”

This work is supported, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the state of Nevada.

Rooster on the Roof A Modern Myth Which Happened in 1944 in Hungary

Ivan Szendro

The rooster has two contrasting symbols in this story. In this Hungarian folk song from Szatmár-Transylvania, which was also deeply rooted in the Jewish folk tradition of the 18th century, the rooster symbolizes love longing. It is in the religious spirit of the Song of Songs.

At the same time, the rooster feather also symbolized the iron-fisted gendarmerie in the world of the Hungarian village, whose members helped the Nazis deport the Jews in 1944.

An Eclectic, Nature-Driven Folk Album Review of “Spell Songs-Gift of Light”

Jonathan Napoli

From harp and kora to cello and harmonium, the textures shift and evolve in ways that surprise the ear, even while remaining rooted in traditional acoustic instrumentation. This album maintains thematic cohesion while allowing each track to feel distinct and self-contained.

Tarot Reviews will return in Spring 2026

Reviews of independently published tarot decks on artistic merit curated by Helena Domenic, MFA.

Math and Magic: The Art of Kevin Kihn

Jack Ruttan

Since it’s my nature as an artist to depict what I wish to see – only when representing a monster will I deliberately portray the negative – landscapes and water tend to show up in my work a lot. I also feel that human beings are fitting denizens of the natural world. I think that a good relationship with nature is crucial for humans to maintain. And I am committed to the artistic tradition that treats the human body as a focus of beauty and an instrument of expression.

Entering the World of Kevin Kihn

A selection of recent works by Kevin Kihn.

Music

New Releases we liked. A playlist of music featured in this issue.

Publications

New Books, Papers and Mythic Works recently published.