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Parabola's Spring 2001 Issue: The Garden Beautiful to the senses and nourishing to the soul and body, a garden was our first home. --from "Telling the Rosary" Cover: Quatrefoil garden doorway Yanyn Hall, Shizlin Garden, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Photograph copyright © Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY. In this issue:

• "Telling the Rosary" by Christopher Bamford - To attend to the "one needful thing"
• "The Patient Reach for Light" by Anita Lange - The meaning of divine wisdom
• "Gardens of the Heart" by Norris Brock Johnson - Form and emptiness in the Japanese Zen garden
• "Water and Shade" by Emma Clark - An Islamic portrait of paradise
• "Cultivating the Field of Images" by Richard Smoley - Entry into a higher realm of knowledge
• "Where the Task Is Found" by Rudolf Bernoulli - Searching for the Philosopher's Stone
• "The Perilous Garden" by J. L. Walker - Death and decay in Buddhist practice
• "Mantegna's Agonies" by Henry H. Sturtevant - An analysis of the paintings
• "Graze in the Meadows" by Shems Friedlander - "I am a bird of the heavenly garden"
• "Christ the Gardener" by Kim Coleman Healy - Work to repair our human refusal
• "When Wings Open" by Laura Simms - Terry Tempest Williams on The Garden of Delights

• "Rapunzel" / European retold by Natalie Baan
• "The Bean Woman" / Native American (Tutelo, Southeast) and
• "Onenha, the Corn" / Native American (Tuscarora, Northeast) retold by Joseph Bruchac
• "The Alchemist" / Burmese retold by Allan B. Chinen
• "The Magical Grove" / Jain (Indian) retold by Rama Devagupta
• "An Apple from the Tree of Life" / Jewish (Eastern Europe) retold by Howard Schwartz