Take a few moments to check out Taryn Simon. She terms her work “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” and through her photography, investigates things that we hide from one another.
This is a photograph of Kenny, a White Tiger at the  Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs, Ark. In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, blue eyes and a pink nose. Kenny was born in the care of a breeder in Bentonville, Ark., on Feb. 3, 1999. As a result of inbreeding, Kenny is mentally retarded.

Take a few moments to check out Taryn Simon. She terms her work “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” and through her photography, investigates things that we hide from one another.

This is a photograph of Kenny, a White Tiger at the  Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs, Ark. In the United States, all living white tigers are the result of selective inbreeding to artificially create the genetic conditions that lead to white fur, blue eyes and a pink nose. Kenny was born in the care of a breeder in Bentonville, Ark., on Feb. 3, 1999. As a result of inbreeding, Kenny is mentally retarded.

My little bro is a newly inducted Giants fan. Maybe this will help their season…

My little bro is a newly inducted Giants fan. Maybe this will help their season…

Run Mark! Run!

Run Mark! Run!

She Dreamed of Cows

by Norah Pollard

I knew a woman who washed her hair and bathed
her body and put on the nightgown she’d worn
as a bride and lay down with a .38 in her right hand.
Before she did the thing, she went over her life.
She started at the beginning and recalled everything—
all the shame, sorrow, regret and loss.
This took her a long time into the night 
and a long time crying out in rage and grief and disbelief—
until sleep captured her and bore her down.

She dreamed of a green pasture and a green oak tree.
She dreamed of cows. She dreamed she stood 
under the tree and the brown and white cows 
came slowly up from the pond and stood near her. 
Some butted her gently and they licked her bare arms 
with their great coarse drooling tongues. Their eyes, wet as 
shining water, regarded her. They came closer and began to 
press their warm flanks against her, and as they pressed
an almost unendurable joy came over her and 
lifted her like a warm wind and she could fly.
She flew over the tree and she flew over the field and 
she flew with the cows.

When the woman woke, she rose and went to the mirror.
She looked a long time at her living self.
Then she went down to the kitchen which the sun had made all
yellow, and she made tea. She drank it at the table, slowly,
all the while touching her arms where the cows had licked.

Mercer Street alley.

Mercer Street alley.

Congrats, Heather and Mike!!!

Congrats, Heather and Mike!!!

Rehearsal Dinner

Rehearsal Dinner

Oh yeah, it’s fall in Virginia.

Oh yeah, it’s fall in Virginia.

GPOYW: competitive canoeing in the Adirondacks Ed.
photo credit: James Nord

GPOYW: competitive canoeing in the Adirondacks Ed.

photo credit: James Nord