Volume 6; Issue 1
The material for this issue comes from several years of submissions from the Taos Writing and Wellness Retreat for Health Professions. In a location wealthy with inspiration, a group of health professionals—creative writing novices and experienced authors alike—gather every August to explore the written word. The participants/contributors range from physicians, physician-professors, nurses, and other health professionals.
The stories are work that was brought to the retreat to be refined and stories or poems that came out of retreat exercises. The stories are funny, heartfelt, heartbreaking, sad, and uplifting. They are little edited and come to you from the retreat.
The artwork is from retreat participants inspired by the Northern New Mexico setting.
—Max McMillen, ELS
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“nonimmune pregnant women are disproportionately affected by the disease” —Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases…
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Dandelions bloomed gaudily and defiantly across our unmown lawn the summer I turned 14. They were natural in a way…
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When my best friend Katelyn was five months pregnant, her water broke. I had just seen her a week earlier,…
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Rising is another gurgling cantor bubbling spray echoing along a rotating chamber, enlivening a repetitive roar when white foam…
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Two buildings have fallen
Sorrow runs deep
Radical Islam’s hate
First Responders covered
For 50 kinds of cancer
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These words I speak slowly pass between us like a fine mist falling lingering until silence remains in our solitude And…
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It is Friday afternoon after a long week of teaching, double-booking, and serial crisis interventions. My iPhone keeps lighting up…
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Simplicity Swooshing of the birds’ wings overhead Rooster and chicken figurines on top of the roof’s edge Stacked round rocks…
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Colored pencils on a page of heavy weight drawing paper were used in this sketch, without one point perspective, of…
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... the roundness of edges against the sharp angle is beautiful and calming. Fixed in a moment of time, still-life photographs…
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I, the artist, capture the artist painting ...
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Out of nowhere, life, the flower, emerges ...
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Textures always seem to catch my eye ...
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... “liminal” space—thresholds, insides and outsides, and spaces in between.
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... reflecting the native experience on the arc of space.
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In 1986, I tossed a copy of Joy of Cooking into the trash. I didn’t think I could catch AIDS…
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Driving slowly on this winding mountain road hands clutch the steering wheel, tires creep along whitened asphalt as snowflakes fall…
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Mabel Dodge Luhan yearly in August.
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She paused halfway between the clinic and her car. She paused to catch her breath, to clear her head. She pausedto recall the storyher…
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This photo of a typical Taos, NM, sunset was taken right after I had voiced frustration about sunset photos never…
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When I was only as tall as your knees, Sundown was a well-established routine: bath and pajamas and prayers and…
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