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The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan “To say how many green-greys there are is impossible.” From the Letters of Vincent van Gogh  EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—5/14/121–I’m listening to Grigory Sokolov play Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” which is like being present at the Dawn of the World and, for some reason, I think about how I [...]

The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan And there they play for evermore At battlecock and shuttledore —Edward Lear, “The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly” EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—2/27/12—Writing a poem can be very like a game. I’m calling it battlecock and shuttledore. If you look up “battledore” on Wikipedia you will start to see what I’m [...]

The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—1/16/11—January is the month for two things: Getting Organized (because once the year gets really cranked up, you won’t have another chance), and Obsessing (because it’s dark and wet and cold outside). Which brings me to a dialogue I’ve been having with the past several Januaries, about [...]

The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan Editor’s Note: This essay, by Anita Sullivan, is the winner of the December 2011 “Boleman-Herring Prize for [Hubristic] Nonfiction,” granted twice a year by www.WeeklyHubris.com. Ms. Sullivan receives a cash prize of $100., and publication in WeeklyHubris as a Guest Columnist. Our next contest deadline (see http://weeklyhubris.com/contest/) is February [...]

The Highest Cauldron by Anita Sullivan EUGENE Oregon—(Weekly Hubris)—12/5/11—My husband recently published a new translation and commentary on the first eleven chapters of Genesis, and subtitled it “Tales of the Earliest World.” This has prompted an extended conversation between us on the matter of human origins, and an expanded look at folktales from all over [...]