Mar
16
Urban Park Culture: Celebrating the City Park Environment
The magazine is currently on hiatus, but you can enjoy the premiere issue here:
https://online.anyflip.com/jwsef/upjt/
A. M. Palmer
A retired urban park ranger, artist, and nonfiction writer, A. M. Palmer creates fresh content for a variety of readers.
Mar
10
Illness and the Movement of Time: Reflections on Architecture, Music, and the Benefits of Raw Honey (2018)
The movement of time becomes painfully apparent when one is ill, either droning on during treatment and recovery, or fleeting
8 min read
Mar
10
Hawks of the Afternoon: On the Beauty and Fear of Isolation
It’s early afternoon on a weekday, during a lull in my patrol of municipal land. The tires of my
2 min read
Mar
10
Library Digressions: Curating the Chaos
Is it a library or simply a collection of books stacked for convenience in various parts of the house, frightening
6 min read
Mar
10
Alone in a Silent Grove
Breath
of the muted voice, becoming quiet along the way, one
soft stream of air made softer still, by the
1 min read
Mar
10
An Older Volume
Closed,
and older still in memory
than forgotten ideas and other points of departure, a book
waits behind the centuries,
1 min read
Mar
10
Voices in the Grass: Remembering Chaney Trail
I don’t recall the official history of the land, that portion of Angeles National Forest where I grew up
3 min read
Mar
10
Airport: On the Journey of Strangers
Although not a habitué of hotels and airports, I’ve passed through enough of them to reflect, to enjoy their
5 min read
Mar
10
The Eames Chair and Optimism: The American Aesthetic at Midcentury
From my childhood in the 70s, I recall the orange chairs of waiting rooms, plastic décor elements which seemed very
8 min read