Robin Larsen's Alchemical Angels are wondrous creations. Since the mid-1990s Seattle-based designer Tim Girvin has been keeping journals of his thoughts, sketches, poetry, and observations. We feature two journals which beautifully exemplify the mult-talents of this philosopher, artist, designer, and calligrapher. Ahmed Faheem The Dream. The best artists are keen observers of nature. But more than this, they are superb communicators. Norm Nason offers one of the most valuable lessons On Drawing weve ever seen. PHOTOGRAPHY Luther Gerlach could be considered a true plein air photographer: he shoots with vintage lenses and large-format cameras and creates glass-plate negatives with the wet-collodion process on location. Photography Editor Joanne Warfield invited three prominent photographers from past issues to submit some of their latest works. They are all giants in their fields: Sean Kernan brings us some compelling images from Darfur. Former chief U.N. photographer John Isaac has made three trips to Kashmir for a new book. He offers TheScreamOnline a sneak preview of his stunning work. Former Mortensen student Robert Balcomb offers three exquisite pieces from his After series and seven still lifes. FILM Here's another look at What Dreams May Come and Somewhere in Time producer Stephen Simons wildly-popular new movement called Spiritual Cinema Circle, which promotes uplifting films with positive messages, delving into such topics as life after life, enhanced powers and sensibilities, reality and time, visionary romance and adventures, and the power of love. MUSIC Canadian violin virtuoso Lara St. John is also a writer, having chronicled many of her experiences traveling the world as a Classical musician. Read Just another day in the life of a touring violinist Not! FICTION Lisa Lenard-Cooks most recent novel, Coyote Morning, explores how a few people in a New Mexico town cope with the areas insistent wildness and with their own lives. The book was selected as a 2004 Southwest Book of the Year by the Tucson-Pima County Public Library. We present Chapter One here. Death is no respecter of persons, and makes no allowances for favorite relatives, who may suffer as horribly as anyone. But in the end what still matters is what always mattered: courage, kindness, memory, and the love of a good joke: so Ted discovers in Jay Prefontaine's grimly touching story, Im Dead. NONFICTION Robert Grudin lines up the likes of Giovanni Boccacchio, Vittorio da Feltre, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Frederick Douglass to discuss The Education of the Vulgar, from his manuscript The American Vulgar. As if homo sapiens weren't already ridiculous enough, with his hairless body, upright posture, and swollen cranium, the species had to go and evolve a capacity for romantic love. But, in fact, it is this crowning eccentricity that makes the rest of the package viable, or so John Kilgore argues, in Love and Biology. POETRY Jared Carter is one of the great American poets. You feel it in the strength of his beliefs about our country and its people, our world and its beauty and its problems; and you feel it in the care with which he writes and in the music of his long and lyrical lines. He writes like a person whose eyes and heart and mind are always open. September 11, 2001, changed the world for all of us, and 16 poets from the United States and Europe address one of the most profound changes: our sense God in this post 9/11 world. In A Riff on the Color Blue, Editor-in-Chief Stuart Vail reviews The Blue Museum, the latest book of poetry by Phil Cousineau. EPIPHANIES In The Presence of Myth Phil Cousineau shows his script-writing class the riot of emotion that director John Huston so devastatingly portrayed in his adaptation of James Joyces short story The Dead. COMMENTARY The Terrible Beauty of Pope John Paul II: Why Even Those Who Disagreed with Him Cheat Themselves and Their Causes if They Miss the Chance to Learn From His Life, and His Death, by Danusha V. Goska Ron Roizens Omphalos looks at the apparent disagreement between the enormous age of the earth suggested by the geological record and the comparatively much shorter six-thousand-year age suggested by the book of Genesis. Sheron Mariah Steele was wounded in the Middle East, and as her shattered knee was healing she wrote a most poignant Easter greeting to a friend, titled Survival 101. HUMOR We couldnt resist a few Then and Now comparisons of various personalities, animate and inanimate. QUOTATIONS Bon mots, witticisms, stupidity, and just plain nastiness.BOOKS Want some suggestions for good reading? Check out TheScreamOnline Bookshelf. Buying books through these links can help keep us afloat. Cost of the War in Iraq enter