Parabola's Summer 1993 issue: Place and Space We live as separate beings, especially in Western culture, separate from each other and separate from the earth. We may even believe we can discern the boundaries between the material world and ourselves, between the visible and the unseen. But none can say where the line is that divides inner from outer. Where do I begin? Where do I end? Where do I belong? --from the editorial Focus Cover: "Realm of Repose" by Laurie Kaplowitz Acrylic on canvas. Copyright 1992. Courtesy of the Stephen Haller Gallery, New York. In this issue:

• "Telling the Holy" by Scott Russell Sanders
  - How we relate to the earth through story
• "Home" by William Maxwell
  - The smallest, most important things
• "Dreaming the Beginning: An interview with Robert Lawlor"
  - The geometry of Aboriginal Dreamtime
• "Nostalgia for the Present" by Janet Heyneman
  - Moving between two worlds
• "On Exile" by Czeslaw Milosz
  - Experiences of displacement
• "The Birth of a Shrine" by Shrivatsa Goswami and Margaret Case
  - On creating a sacred space
• "The Gate of Mercy" by Martin Lev
  - The absence of the Divine presence
• "Feng Shui" by Sarah Rossbach
  - The Chinese art of placement
• "Hawai'i: Landscape of Transformation" by David Ulrich
  - A photo essay
• "A Glimpse of Paradise" by Wayne Teasdale
  - How the cloister brings us to the center of ourselves
• "Free Space" by William Shelton
  - An astronaut's encounter with the void of outer space
• ARCS: "Innermost Boundaries"
• "Among These Mountains" by Ron Matous
  - The landscapes that we call home

Tangents - Reviews

• "Familiar Places" by Virginia Baron
  - Reviews of "In Transit" and "A House for Us All"

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "The White Stag" / Hungarian - retold by Natalie Baan
• "The Underground Forest" / Jewish - retold by Howard Schwartz
• "Crawls" / British
• "Blanket Lizard" / Australian

Poems

• "Nuns Fret Not" by William Wordsworth
• "Space" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• "Transition" by D. M. Dooling
• "On Leaving a House" by Gwendolyn Scott