Welcome to In Touch — Editor’s Note
When life rushes by, it’s easy to feel a looming sense of disconnect—between our families, with ourselves, and with the…
Connection
Art is Water
Sargy Mann, a British painter of portraits and landscapes, began to lose his eyesight in 1973. Mann saw spectral haloes…
The Dinner Table
Cloaked in a quiet suburbia, survivors slice into medium-rare steaks and sip red wine at the dinner table. Mothers swoop…
My name is Aroni
“अरोनि” is what I wrote as my name on the top of my third grade Hindi test paper. It was…
Monotoned Me
I waited two years to go back in person because I was going crazy at home. I was tired of…
Our world through rhythm
I never paid attention to the sound of footsteps. The rhythmic thuds of feet patting against dry concrete, crunching through…
Seventy Years of First Dates
Jeannette – 1952 “I do not know how I’ll survive dancing in these shoes tonight,” I say, crouching down to…
Soundless Vibrations
It took me a while to understand the preciousness of communication and the beauty of being understood. It took watching…
Skin Against Our Fingertips
A year without summer,A night without stars—the constellations aligned,Perched high above the sky’s radiant stunner,Life without connection is stumbling through…