Touch: The Journal of Healing
Touch: The Journal of Healing
Issue 2
September 2009
Table of Contents
September 2009
Cover Design by O.P.W. Fredericks
Cover Photo by Daniel Milbo
Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks
Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo
Cover Photo © 2006 Daniel Milbo
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Touch: The Journal of Healing is owned and operated by The Lives You Touch Publications
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe
. . . with birth as condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murray Alfredson
Door Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James S. Wilk
Dewdrop (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks
The unnamed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Klocek-Lim
Creases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Houtman
Hospital Hush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock
Days End (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat St.Pierre
One-Sided, Mother Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Toni L. Wilkes
Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James S. Wilk
White Lilacs By Edouard Manet . . . . . . . . . . . Alarie Tennille
Lilacs in a Vase (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edouard Manet
The Cat’s Eye Nebula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Klocek-Lim
EUTERPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maria Basile
Editors Choice:
The voice of Tina Hacker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks
Sheba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker
My Mother’s Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker
Cutting It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker
Final Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Hacker
For Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda K. Marshall
Lilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ed Bennett
white lotus II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelly Grace Smith
Chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Cavano
The Parable of Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ed Bennett
Vigil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Esther Greenleaf Mürer
My father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Murray Alfredson
Tante Berta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe
She’s Coffined Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Susan Clemons
Mercy Tin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe
Treading Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock
The Light at the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock
My Zack (photograph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larina Warnock
After Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks & Daniel Milbo
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Touch: The Journal of Healing
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