The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday July 24th, 2022 – Amelia Earhart Day
Amelia Earhart was born July 24th, 1897; during a time when the attitude toward women in the United States was beginning to change. Defying traditional roles, as a young woman, Earhart played basketball, took a course in how to repair automobiles and also attended college. Her service as a nurse’s aid in Canada during World War I exposed her to pilots who were training in the Royal Flying Corps. By 1937, Amelia Earhart set off on her second attempt at a flight around the world. She made it from California to Southeast Asia, but was eventually lost at sea.
The Entrance of Humanity Into History by Abigail George
My father, Vernon Aspara and I were vessels. Glass bodies rushing through the air. The line shifts golden. Basking in the sun, legs and hands and face turning brown in the sun. The bridge of the nose turned salmon pink. But then this black and white photograph became ephemera and our summer world turned cold out. Summer turned into winter as if by magic. Dogs bark. Scribbling the pavement and mud with urine and pop. The sun offers warmth. It brightens everything in its sphere. There is no shade. No shadow. Only bodies glistening with the Sheena of oily sweat. The day cries holy. Stems are anointed as much as patients going through cognitive behavioural therapy. Our bodies decay. We wither and die. Dying is an art. Seduction is a dazzling theory. My father is reaching for the light at the end of the tunnel.
I am at the end stages of a relationship. What conquistadors regret, mourning after, denial and bereavement are. I hope my mental health improves. There is something pure about the day. My dad’s hair, skin and boots are on fire. Flames of sun licking his ankles. I wish to forget the man and how he made me feel. That he claimed me like the sea claims and has ownership over humanity as individuals live, breathe, and sate their thirst with wine and beer. I think of David Foster Wallace. I think of the time he spent at Amherst. His depression and his suicide. I think of Anne Sexton. I think of her lovely face. I think of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” and her verses. Her religious father the Washingtonian congressman. Her invalid mother. Her sister Lavinia. Her sister-in-law. Her brother. Her Amherst.
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Desert Song II #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“Never can be told
a story set in stone,
for what the message was
may not be at all.”
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Garry Davis: “And Now the People Have The Floor” by Rene Wadlow
Garry Davis, who died 24 July 2013, in Burlington, Vermont, was often called “World Citizen N°1”. The title was not strictly exact as the organized world citizen movement began in England in 1937 by Hugh J. Shonfield and his Commonwealth of World Citizens, followed in 1938 by the creation jointly in the USA and England of the World Citizen Association. However, it was Garry Davis in Paris in 1948-1949 who reached a wide public and popularized the term “world citizen”.
Garry Davis was the start of what I call “the second wave of world citizen action”. The first wave was in 1937-1940 as an effort to counter the narrow nationalism represented by Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan. This first world citizen wave of action did not prevent the Second World War, but it did highlight the need for a wider cosmopolitan vision. Henri Bonnet of the League of Nations’ Committee for Intellectual Co-operation and founder of the US branch of the World Citizen Association became an intellectual leader of the Free French Movement of De Gaulle in London during the War. Bonnet was a leader in the founding of UNESCO — the reason it is located in Paris — and UNESCO’s emphasis on understanding among cultures.
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Worming #41 #Cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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