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This Peace on Earth Day:

Curated by Kathleen Cromwell

Kathleen Cromwell is a writer, teacher, speaker, activist and cook. As a reporter-at-large she writes features, commentary, essays and reviews for various venues including: The New Yorker, New York, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Salon, More, Odyssey, Travel Squire, Chilled and the Athens News. She lives in New York with the blues-rock guitarist, Spiros Soukis.

WOVEN’s book for the month of May, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, by Terry Tempest Williams, is a compelling account of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, a nearby migratory-bird refuge and the ill effects of humankind’s recklessness on both; plus, much, much more. The following links amplify some of the myriad topics and themes Williams covers in her astonishing classic of our times.

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This is the Way the World Ends

by James Morrow

The novel’s prologue opens in 1554, with Dr. Michel de Nostredame, in his secret study at Salon-de-Provence, France, poring over a set of small paintings on glass squares “no larger than a Tarot card,” created by Leonardo da Vinci. Having heard of the astonishing prophetic visions of the teen-age visionary, who had already acquired a reputation as the Little Astrologer, the great man had invited the lad to his manor at Clos-Luce, to ask him how the world would end.

Recipe of the Month

Oven-Roasted Onions & Carrots

Delightfully uncomplicated, easy to assemble and quick to make, this recipe is a go-to in our kitchen! Its simplicity belies the versatility of this scrumptious creation.

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From EARTH: The Anthology:

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams describes a vivid memory in Refuge, a scene seared into her mind: a blinding blast of intense light, witnessed when she’d been a child, sitting on her mother’s lap as her father drove down the highway one night, through what she discovered later was the radioactive desert, where “secret” atomic-tests had been regularly conducted. Many years later she is finally able to connect that unforgettable sight with its toxic long-after effets: cancer–that comes on slowly and silently; subtle, up until the long, painful end–that several women in her family, including her two grandmothers and her mother that she describes as the “clan of the one-breasted women.”