Ruminate Magazine

Editor’s Note - Chewing on Life

Poetry
Hannah Faith Notess, La Gloria Taqueria, Omnipresence, Age 5
David Von Schlichten, Toa Te Ching Agape, Communion
Andy Patterson, Guessing at Ends
Laurie Klein, Armed with stones, we’ve forgotten, What’s Left Over, Intercession in Oils
Debra Reinstra, Take, Drink,   Resilience
Alohi Ae’a, Tribute, Kuleana
Paul Willis, A Fish Story, Modern Languages, Sacrifice

Nonfiction
Albert Haley, Jesus Took the Bus to Chicago: Going Down the Road with the Blues
Bethan Holland, Meditation on the Magi
Laura Peterson, Weight of Words: Autobiography of a Reading Life

Fiction
Leif Peterson, Angels Don’t Sleep
Alexa Behmer, Black Leather Shoes

Art
Nicholas Price, Rhino
Isaac Steiner, Embossment
Selections from Cole Thompson

For us (young graduates, a traveler, new mothers, a veterinary technician, and a florist) the process of discovering this little magazine was a meal of gulping, with sips and nibbles in between—of chewing the cud we had created.  After many prayers and puzzling over ideas and proposals for weeks, we noticed that our ultimate aim was to reveal faith in art. We decided this was a good aim and kept going.  And through this our magazine materialized, the title was chosen, and the topic for our first issue’s theme, “Chewing on Life” surfaced.  Yet we found that creating and publishing a magazine, much like ruminating, isn’t done in one swallow.

Hannah Faith Notess

Laurie Klein