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VOL. 04:3
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$12.50
Parabola's Fall 1979 issue: The Child What is childhood? Is it a privileged period of life up to a certain age, or is it the beginning of a trajectory that to all human intents and purposes may be as "eternal" as the life processes of the stars and planets? As the beginning of the human life process, how far can it go? If, as has been said, the only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys, then the "more" of the adult over the child is one of mere volume. Too many of us are only larger and dirtier children; but we complain bitterly when our children "grow up" to be basically the same as the rest of us. What can change, what must change for the process of evolution to continue? --from the editorial Focus Cover: Print of children climbing bamboo by Sigeko Yonezawa, age 9 From a collection of "Prints and Poems by Children of Japan," prepared by the Touchstone Center for Children, Inc. In this issue:
"Twins Twisted into One" by Don Talayesva
- A powerful narrative of life before and after birth by a Hopi born in 1890
"Riding a Horse: A Story" by Nicholas Weiss
"Towards Beginnings" by Richard Lewis
- A collaboration of a father/teacher and his children in an exploration of the nature of childhood
"Birth of the Sun: A Story"
"The Dancing Butterfly: A Story" by Angela
"Becoming a Child" by John Loudon
- Probing the paradox of becoming as a child and putting away childish things
"Inanna and the Land of No Return: A Poem" by Rachel Nora Greene
"The Awakened Eye" by Frederick Franck
- A recollection of the first moment of being at one
"The Strength of Thor: A Story" by Keith Jones
"The First Act Repeated" by Lynda Sexson
- How some of us make myth in the postmodern age
Arcs: "Grown men may learn from children things which older people miss"
- Observations by and about the child on the nature of things
"The Child Incarnate" by Lobsang Lhalungpa
- The Tibetan concept of the fully developed being in its child form
"Outer Space and Earth: A Story" by Rachel Cloudstone Zucker
Tangents - Reviews
"A Primary World" by P. L. Travers
- A celebration of origins
"Looking at Children Playing, from the Sky" by Frederick Franck
- An exhibition of Japanese children's art and poetry
"Sounding a Note of Search" by Lorraine Kisly
- Thoughts on Peter Brook's Meetings With Remarkable Men
"Pictures at an Exhibition" by Roger Lipsey
- An inquiry, via the Kremlin Collection, into the purpose of looking at art
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world
"The Eighth Embryo" / Hindu retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"Hermes" / Greek retold by Thomas White
"The Sword Under the Stone" / Greek retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
"The Secret Son" / Igbo (African) retold by Peter Thomas
