Rest

An editorial with Megan Otto   Rest We’d like to share with our Awakenings community that The Nightingale is taking a hiatus. We’re pausing this project, and we’ll continue to focus on our visual exhibits and our ongoing literary magazine.  As an...

Hawks and Sparrows

A familiar image: a bird circling in the sky. With a gentle metaphor, Krista Robey writes to describe survivors’ ongoing pain. A bird circling overhead may never descend, but it still feels ominous, and this image functions to describe how a survivor can feel...

A Mohawk and a Heart

When we’re brought to city of Amman, Jordan with Shantha Bunyan, we’re briefly wrapped up in all the details, small and large, that make up moments of her daily life there. There’s a clear sense of place, and as we learn about something as simple as...