Parabola's Summer 2002 Issue:
Dying In the end, death's justice comes to us all, in order to make space for the other candles waiting in the hallway of life to be lit. --from "Godfather Death"
Cover:"Journey's End" From
Splendor Solis by Salomon Trismosin. London: British Library, 1582. Harley MS 3469. Reproduced by permission of the British Library.
In this issue:
- "So Many Tears I Was Searching" by Murray Littlejohn and Edward Tingley - Reflections on the death of George Harrison
- "Why We Wash the Dead" by Leslie What - Exploring the Jewish ceremonial washing
- "Godfather Death" by Madronna Holden - Storytelling lights the transition
- POINT OF VIEW: "'How Long, O Lord?'" by Roger Lipsey
- "The Last Note" by Therese Schroeder-Sheker - How music wakens and heals
- "Desiring the Crucifixion" by Henry H. Sturtevant - The profundity of the symbol
- "No Tragic Confrontation" by Friedrich Nietzsche - A "voluntary" dying
- "Apoptosis" by Dror Mevorach - The deliberate death of cells
- "A Face of Translucent Beauty" - An Interview with Nancy Poer
- ARCS: "Words on Taking Leave"
- "The Road of Stars" by Joseph Bruchac - Arriving at the astral plane
- "With a Steady Eye" by Rebecca Sachs Norris - Life as preparation
- "Consumed by Either Fire or Fire" by Kim Coleman Healy - Thoughts on Thomas Merton
- "Journey through the Underworld" - Follow the sun's path
Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world