I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e.e. cummings Growing up on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, I visited the Falls of the Ohio. The Falls are a 390 million-year-old fossil bed on...

My family passes down irises from generation to generation. I remember — deep purple with a whisper of violet and a golden backbone. We can trace their genealogy to my great-grandmother’s garden, I think. More than 100 years of soil and rain feed...

Dogwood Blooms, By Julie Ann McKevitt Westside Trail under Westview Drive I first saw this mural in spring of 2021. New to Atlanta, it was the first time in years I lived in a place where trees blossomed all around me. (I soon learned Atlanta...

Rakshasa, JD Koth Eastside Trail Eastside Corridor at the northeast corner of Piedmont Park Rakshasa are demons or goblins in Hindu mythology. They are said to shape shift and wreck havoc between sunset and sunrise. Some Rakshasa are describ...