Cain and Abel

OPEN THE GROUND

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A new song about mothering in the wild by Alicia Jo Rabins   A note from LABA fellow Alicia Jo Rabins about her song: I am interested in internal wildness, emotional wildness, the secret corners of ourselves we try endlessly to tame – though they may be kept secret even from those closest to us.

WILD AT HEART

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Cain and Abel and Us by Karen Loew             Mountain meadows are fields. So are rolling prairies, and farmers’ plots.  In the Biblical imagination, these grassy, open spaces are places of wildness, where the unexpected can happen. (Think of the untamed forest in Grimms’ Fairy Tales.)  In Genesis, fields are

CAIN AND ABEL IN THE GARDEN OF ROCK AND ROLL EDEN

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Creating love out of the broken pieces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff In “Adam Raised a Cain,” Bruce Springsteen explains what happens when children inherit the burdens of a father whose pain trumps his ability to love: In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast You’re born into this life paying

HOW WE GOT BACK TO THE WILD

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Cain, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a trip up the Alps by Elissa Strauss             For centuries the Swiss Alps were nothing more than an inconvenience for travelers. They were something to skirt, a sign that it was time to veer left or right because carrying on forward simply wasn’t worth

GATEWAY TO THE WILD

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Freedom and its discontents by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar               Ruby:  The tale of Cain and Abel, describing the first murder in human history, happens in an open field. Do you think the field location carries a special meaning? Basmat:  Yes – the field is not just the