Yareah magazine next issue (31) is going to be titled Nature. Submissions are open for authors and artists. You know our motto: An Open Door. Jazz up and join Yareah in this new artistic and literary trip and topic.
In recent weeks, we have been living
worried, absolutely worried about Hurricane Sandy. In fact, I was so
worried that I couldn’t write any article about the topic.
It’s true
that I talked by email or on fb with friends affected by Sandy, but I
don’t feel like publishing anything. I started writing once and again,
trying to encourage affected people. However, once and again I felt my
words weren’t enough good, enough encouraging, enough sympathetic. In
the end, nobody knew what would happen and it’s not easy to make
science-fiction when real people are in danger.
Now, we know the damages and now we have
the information to write about Sandy and the effects of a hurricane.
Furthermore, we can analyze things in a general way. Sandy is not the
first hurricane, nor the first natural catastrophe that our Earth has
suffered, and we can compare and see how people in other moments have
overcome disasters.
What is going on with Nature? Maybe
nothing or maybe, as some voices are warning in a while, we have damaged
the environment and we are paying the consequences.
Mother Nature, a goddess, a myth, a
subject to write. A nature which provides every kind of benefits, main
topic for authors and artists, a nature which scared us sometimes.
The Bible, hundreds of years ago, talked
about the Flood. Latin authors studied how to improve crops while
Vesuvius volcano buried Pompeii. In the 18th century, Lisbon almost
disappeared due to an earthquake but in this same century people
developed coal factories… Always, the beautiful vs the dreadful Nature,
always black and white with a rainbow in the middle, always Mother
Nature.
Information about submissions: http://yareah.com/submissions1/
