A Magpies’ Museum of Lost Creations.
Letter From the Editor, December: Museum of Lost Creations
Letter From the Editor, 10/23. These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins.
If there was a theme to this month’s Tidings of Magpies, or any month’s, really, it’s patchwork. Making something new out of fragments, out of things discarded, disjointed, or cast aside.
Letter from the Editor, September 2023: Some sighs out their sentences, but some sings out their silences
I’m talking about creating something big together, working together on something, something good. Something money and cynicism can’t touch, because we have no use for any of that. Something we believe in, even if it seems a little crazy. An unholy ghost building made up of dream-filled rooms and corridors leading to vistas and light. A place where we can sigh out our sentences and sing out our silences.
Letter From the Editor, July 2023. Lessons From Clio in Clover
And it occurred to me that there’s nowhere else I needed to be, nowhere more important than this place at this time, standing on a cool and warming June morning with Clio rolling in the clover. This is the first lesson.
Letter From the Editor, June 2023. The Wood Between the Worlds
At various times in your life you might find yourself back in the wood between the worlds.
Letter From the Editor, May, 2023: Magpies Commons
In my insomnia thoughts, I imagined Tidings of Magpies as a sort of commons. A green space where we can walk and talk together, and work together on our allotment gardens. Ideas can grow, and we can bind them together with each other’s thoughts and feelings, and make something new and beautiful.
Letter From the Editor: In defense of Foolishness
I could say something, but why?
Do you want to know what’s in my heart?
From the beginning of time: just this! just this!
Letter From the Editor, February ’23: Kindling Spirits
“…but in the sense of someone or something from years or decades or centuries past that seems to speak to you, personally; some act of creation that sparks a glowing connection of admiration, or a recognition of perfect mutual strangeness. A “kindling” spirit”
Letter From the Editor: In Defense of Meandering
Ideas are born in the hollow of unknowing.
Letter From the Editor: It might be our anniversary.
Thoughts on our first year. Our editorial calendar is serendipitous, and each month’s theme is make-the-road-by-walking.
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