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Inside the Sitar’s Buzz, the ‘Dissolving Voice’ of Rain

The trick is finding your own pocket of silence within sound. This is what I was thinking when Stephanie Khoury and...
Anita Lahey
February 15, 2018
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Tick, tock, sssh!

I offer here an aural collage to introduce the upcoming edition of After Hours, the first of 2018: Sound &...
Anita Lahey
January 17, 2018
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Epiphany Letter 2018

Arise, shine; for your light has come,and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.—Isaiah 60. 1 Dear friends,...
Craig Hiebert
January 6, 2018
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Windswept

Part of my own motivation, when we planned a “storm chasing” night for After Hours, was curiosity. Why do people...
Anita Lahey
December 2, 2017
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Wild weather forecast for After Hours tonight!

  Dear Churchmice, In the cultural weather forecast for this evening, watch for a storm or two at sea courtesy of...
Anita Lahey
November 22, 2017
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Glimpses in Passing

  Toronto poet Gwendolyn MacEwen died in 1987. She was exactly the age I am now: 45. Circumstances aside, no one...
Anita Lahey
November 8, 2017
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The Dutch cleanser woman led us to infinity

Last month at Churchmouse After Hours we plodded through deserts, rode ships, dug tunnels and escaped tyranny.   We...
Anita Lahey
October 23, 2017
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We Creatures of the Earth Must Move and Move Again

. . . a matter of sense—the thousand-eyed, thousand-eared alertness of a flock. The strategies are given names— I...
Anita Lahey
September 26, 2017
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Is a stair any place to belong?

“In the country where I now live, there is no word for home.” That’s the first line of Isabel Huggan’s 2003 memoir...
Anita Lahey
July 12, 2017
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Its Place Among the Elements

  I didn’t hit me until I began choosing things to read for April’s Churchmouse After Hours, “Beginnings and...
Anita Lahey
May 6, 2017

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