Segullah's Blog, page 19
May 24, 2021
Right? Perfect!
Have you noticed our current need for validation in our speech? Like what I just did there – elicited your agreement? I did it again. Conversations are now punctuated with a pause, followed by, “right?” One can be explaining, commenting, even describing when they pause and say, “Right?” I find myself nodding, and then afterward...
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May 14, 2021
Long Live Sister O!
We’re coming up (in August) on the tenth anniversary of the death of Chieko Okazaki. She served as first counselor in the church’s General Relief Society Presidency from 1990 to 1997, and died in August, 2011, at 84. That is long enough ago that many of the new generation of Relief Society sisters were still...
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May 3, 2021
Twenty-Five Days
Having folded the contents with precision, I sealed the envelope and affixed the customs declaration. “How long will this take to reach the US?” I queried the Chinese-Australian who ran my local post shop. “Nowadays it takes about twenty-five days,” he said. “Sometimes less. Depends on US customs. It’s something important?” The postie...
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April 19, 2021
I Am the Queen of Mediocrity
When I was seven years old, I imagined that I could be anything. I pictured my future as an accomplished artist, actress, cowgirl, or princess. In my twenties and thirties, I aspired to be a writer, teacher, and administrator. I did spend much of my young adult years striving to distinguish myself in these pursuits....
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April 16, 2021
Book Review: Finding Mother God by Carol Lynn Pearson
As a poet and editor, my instinct in reviewing a poetry collection is to evaluate its linguistic originality, its element of surprise, its style. Yet sometimes I find myself stepping back from this judgment seat and losing myself in the content and thought of the poems. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the purpose...
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March 27, 2021
Spring Journal 2021, Annual Contest Winners Issue
Featured Image: “Exultation” by Linda Hoffman Kimball Spring Journal 2021, Annual Contest Winners Issue Editorial “Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men,” 2 Nephi 31:20 Where do we find hope? From Emily Dickinson’s feathers to...
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Visual Arts Contest Winners
Segullah is honored to recognize two talented artists of this year’s 2021 Visual Arts Contest. We are thrilled to announce that the Segullah 2021 Art Contest 1st PLACE WINNER is PAGE TURNER for her piece entitled “A Proxy for Hope” Page is an assemblage artist in the Blue Ridge Mountain region of Roanoke, Virginia. She...
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Prose Contest Winner
Featured image: Linda Hoffman Kimball’s, “Zion’s Bright Trio” First Place Prose Life After Death by Christy Crowe Hughes It should have been a dream come true, and in a way it was. Three years ago I found myself at what my sons agree is the best place on earth: Disneyland. Friends had...
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Poetry Contest First Place Winner
Featured image: “Giraffe” collage by Linda Hoffman Kimball Poetry First Place: Dayna Patterson A Goddess in the House after Wallace Stevens If there must be a god in the house, must be, Let her hands be floured, her leaven be light, Hips wide from birthing eternity. If she walks Barefoot as moonlight, her...
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Poetry Contest Second Place Winner
Featured image by Linda Hoffman Kimball Poetry Second Place: Anne Thomas Gift after Joy Harjo To begin, you feel the air alive On your skin, breathing from space Bigger than you can see. You shield your eyes from the sun, ...
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