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Not Your Average Black-and-White Existentialist Road Movie

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Gregor’s Bed: Nebraska by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 33 2014-08-22 Film: Nebraska Director: Alexander Payne Writer: Bob Nelson DAVID: Hey, Dad, how about we go see Mount Rushmore? WOODROW: We don’t have time to see that! DAVID: It’s just 30 minutes off the interstate. And we’re right here. WOODROW: It’s just a bunch of rocks! – Dialogue from Nebraska Woody wants to go to Nebraska to pick up his million dollars in winnings. His family knows the “sweepstakes” he’s supposedly won is just a scheme to get people to buy magazines, but Woody is going to … Continue reading Not Your Average Black-and-White Existentialist Road Movie

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Come Dance Rapturously to the Beat of a Very Different Drummer

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The Mindful Bard: Vipassana by Wanda Waterman The voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 33 2014-08-22 Album: Vipassana Artists: Eric Harland – Voyager “The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.” – Eric Harland “E-Land in the house Layin’ down tracks Tryin’ to promote consciousness Come on . . . It’s about you. ” – Eric Harland on “Relax” Eric Harland’s roster of achievements, collaborations, and appearances is jaw-dropping, and to top it all off he’s also an ordained, seminary-trained Baptist minister and has modeled for some of the world’s finest style … Continue reading Come Dance Rapturously to the Beat of a Very Different Drummer

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It’s All So Simple, Really—the Stone is Actually a Donkey

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  by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 32 2014-08-15 Film: Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? Director: Michel Gondry “Reality is simple and it’s our task to show that.” – Noam Chomsky in Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? Once upon a time a little donkey was turned into a stone. When some children told the donkey’s parents that the stone was their son, the parents didn’t believe it. Finally the stone was turned back into a donkey. The lesson? Our ideas of objects are not based on their physical appearances but rather on the … Continue reading It’s All So Simple, Really—the Stone is Actually a Donkey

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From the Archives: The Earthwork Interview

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by Wanda Waterman First published in The Voice Magazie, Volume 15 Issue 45 2007-11-30 The Earthwork Interview I wasn’t old enough to be a true hippy when hippiedom first started taking root in Bear River, Nova Scotia, back in the early 1970s; I was far too young, still in my early teens and going to school with fishermen’s kids who wanted nothing more in life than to become conspicuous consumers. After school I was minding the babies of people who lived in apartments above their own health food outlets, or geodesic domes or log cabins or teepees or very old … Continue reading From the Archives: The Earthwork Interview

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In Conversation With Gillian Sze

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by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 32 2014-08-15 Gillian Sze is a Montreal-based poet who studied creative writing at Concordia University and who has already achieved numerous accolades for two books of poetry, Fish Bones and The Anatomy of Clay (recommended here in the Voice). Recently she took some time to answer Wanda Waterman’s questions about childhood, sensitivity, and feeding the muse. Read the interview here. Poetry: “Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” – Marianne Moore   Continue reading In Conversation With Gillian Sze