2015 Being
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BEING
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Letter from the Editor (forthcoming)
Featured Artist
Sarah McTeer Ogburn, Artist
North Carolina, USA
Featured Poet
Terri Kirby Erickson, Poet
North Carolina, USA
Contributors by First Name
A.J. Huffman, Poet
Florida, USA
Alexandra Hamer, Artist
North Carolina, USA via England
After Imogen Cunningham - 'The Dream, 1910'
Andrea Hennings, Artist
North Carolina, USA via Germany
Angela Jackson-Brown
Indiana, USA
Ann Churcher, Playwright & Author
United Kingdom
Anne-Karine Thoresen, Artist
North Carolina, USA via Norway
Aradhna Sethi, Writer
Europe via India
Betty Stanton
Oklahoma, USA
Bonnie Korta
North Carolina, USA
Ode to Mary's Tangled Ball of Yarn
Camilla Trinchieri, Author - Artist
New York, USA via Italy
Three Images & The Rose
Cara Long, Writer
New York, USA
Diane Z. DeBella, Poet-Author
Colorado, USA
Emily Wilhelm, Chef
North Carolina, USA
Florentina Staigers, Poet
Genevieve Guedra, Poet
France
Glenis Redmond, Poet
South Carolina, USA
Gloria D. Gonsalves, Poet
Germany, via Tanzania
Gloria Martin
Florida, USA
Jan B. Parker
North Carolina, USA
Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth
United Kingdom & Nepal
Jasmine Kang, Poet
California, USA
Karol Anderson, Painter
North Carolina via Florida, USA
Katherine Mecham, Artist
North Carolina, USA
The Father and Mother of Nations
Katya Abazajian, Writer
Washington DC, USA
Kimberly T Hawks
North Carolina, USA
Kim Werfel, Artist
North Carolina, USA
Laurie Kolp, Poet
Texas, USA
Leea Glasheen
Wisconsin, USA
Leslie Waugh
North Carolina, USA
Lisa Rizzo, Poet
California, USA
Mali Warshofsky, Poet
United States, via Poland and Israel
Marcy Corprew, Poet, Storyteller, Playwright
North Carolina, USA
Mariah Wheeler, Artist & Writer
North Carolina, USA
Marilyn Penrod, Artist
North Carolina, USA
Moira Kowalczyk, Photographer & Writer
New Jersey, USA
Did You See Them, the Scullers
Najla Shawa, Writer
Gaza, Palestine
Nancy L. Smith, Artist
North Carolina, USA
Paula Dawn Lietz, Photographer & Artist
Canada
Paulette Turcotte, Multi-Media Artist
British Columbia, Canada
I Want You to Know My Dreams...
Rose Bernal, Poet
New York, USA
Sandra Anfang
California, USA
Sarah Goshal, Poet
New Jersey, USA
Sarah McTeer Ogburn, Artist
North Carolina, USA
Susan Windle, Poet
Pennsylvania, USA
Terri Hadley Ward, Poet
West Virginia, USA
Terri Kirby Erikson, Poet
North Carolina, USA
Terri St. Cloud, Artist, Writer
Virginia, USA
Terry Gomez, Writer
New Mexico, USA
Tiare Snow, Writer
Western Australia
Tiffany Teoh, Poet
Australia via Malaysia
Tricia Knoll, Poet
Oregon, USA
Tabloid Spotlight on the Hollywood Starlet
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About Being
This issue started out with the theme of "Self-Love" inspired by a moving essay by Terri Kirby Erickson on Facebook. The theme is so important for women (and likely for men too, though differently) that it's a must-have theme.
But look up the word "Self-Love" and you will find dozens of negative variants that are considered synonyms. It's clear that the geography of that concept needs redefining. Is there another word?
"Being" surfaced as a single word theme that can encompass self-love, but without the negative connotations of narcissism, undue self-regard and more. Being can address self-love, in the compassionate sense of self; the compassionate regard for self as for others; an equanimity of self -regard and other-regard, in contrast to only celebrating regard for others.
