The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday April 9th, 2023 – Easter Sunday
Wanda’s daughter #fiction by Abigail George
Youth is falling. A clever winter dissolve. Light flashes during an afternoon storm and all I can remember is Johannesburg and failing miserably at school.
I wouldn’t have made it as a teacher for children or an academic. I wouldn’t have made it as a tenured professor. I think I would have liked to teach a creative writing workshop.
It’s different when you don’t worship the ground your self walks upon. When your ego wears a shroud, a mask, a costume, and you hide behind it all of your life.
I was always a pilgrim longing with a ghost force, a sunset street, a hand with a shadow folded inside of it for other pilgrims. There’s a sound there. Do souls just have language?
We know that adolescence marks your gender in a particular way. When you find yourself at a school dance, bones and wounds cannot be told apart when you’re held close by a boy.
Women are always talking to themselves. I know what they are thinking. They want your ‘death’ if you are young.
I am a woman who runs with the wild horses. Who has a dandelion clock of hair. A strong face. I have my fingers on the sun. The English teacher has a daughter. I have none. No tribe to call.
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Virgin spring #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“A virgin spring from mountain well
slides its soul upon this land.
beginning as one in search for more,
a current flows, connects a blend”
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Easter of the Resurrection by Dr. Emanuel Paparella
Another Easter is upon us. Time to rejoice. Time to reflect. Time to ask the question that Chesterton also asked before his conversion. Why are we still talking about a guy who lived some 2000 years ago? How relevant is he really? Those are good questions. As it has become my custom at Ovi magazine I take Christmas and Easter as an opportunity to revisit some of the thoughts of G. K. Chesterton on the subject. He is inimitable. Here below are some selections from his The Everlasting Man.
“If Christ was simply a human character, he really was a highly complex and contradictory human character. For he combined exactly the two things that lie at the two extremes of human variation. He was exactly what the man with a delusion never is; he was wise; he was a good judge. What he said was always unexpected; but it was always unexpectedly magnanimous and often unexpectedly moderate.
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Worming #63 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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