News from 3 Chairs
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Happy Birthday, MANIFEST (zine)!
It was rather serendipitous last year that the first issue of MANIFEST (zine) came out just in time for International Zine Month! An auspicious debut and an amazing first year! So, today we celebrate! Happy Birthday MANIFEST (zine)…and many more!
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NeW! MANIFEST (zine): CRICKETS
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #4, Cricketsby Jen Payne Storytelling is in our DNA says Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong. We share our stories because “we feel most alive when we’re connecting with others and being brave with our stories.” That process, she explains, causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin, the chemicals that “trigger…
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MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #3, It’s About Time!Poems & More by Jen Payne We humans sure are creative with time, aren’t we? This arbitrary turning clocks backward or forward twice a year, assigning time to zones and lines and frames. I myself try to trick time, setting clocks randomly wrong and always fast, as if I can…
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Coping with the Unexpected
Waiting Out the Storm Poetry by Jennifer A. Payne “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” — Henry David Thoreau Written from the shoreline of Connecticut and the wide…
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Books Let You Travel
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”– Jhumpa Lahiri
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MANIFEST (zine): Cat lady Confessions
Issue #2, DIVINE INTERVENTIONPoor Cat Lady. She always gets a bum rap. No one ever makes fun of Ernest Hemingway, whose Key West home was filled with cats — and he of a certain age. His strapping action figure includes a typewriter and a shotgun. Cat Lady? She gets six cats, bed head, and a…
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A Naturalist’s Journal of Connections
LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness 75 ESSAYS & POEMS by Branford, Connecticut Writer Jen Payne Nature – Balance – Spirituality – Connection 100 ORIGINAL COLOR PHOTOS of the Woods & Shoreline of Connecticut QUOTATIONS by Philosophers, Poets Naturalists, and Treasured Writers LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness is a journal…
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This Long Winter Weekend: What are you reading?
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.” — Kitty O’Meara Looking for something new to read? Click here now!
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MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…
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Evidence of Flossing: The Movie
Evidence of Flossing at a Glance…watch the movie now!
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Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection?
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING: What We Leave Behind Poems & Musings by Jen Payne 80+ Original & Vintage Color Photographs Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection? Part social commentary, part lament, the poems in Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind are, at their heart, love poems to…
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