She was looking at me with that big, sad eye
The Arts
January 2025 issue of Tragaluz is online at tragaluzjournal.org
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Check out tragaluzjournal.org/extra
The Re-Con
Vermeer: the girl
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Too often we overlook the specificity of beauty in our daily lives: the clamor of synthetic busyness, interminable torrents of online information and rumor, the deceptions of AI
Letters to the Publisher
Time to stop strapping decrepit hospital eyesore onto the backs of Laredo taxpayers
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Future of this private property should be condemnation, implosion, and leaving the land to the city for planning and improvement
The Arts
Cliffe Killam and the Laredo Center for the Arts unveil “The Quest to Dream: A Rare Collection of the First-Printed Don Quixote Illustrations”
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Exhibit opens Sept. 20; showcases 70 photographs of original illustrations printed in 1738
The Arts
Printmakers and performing artists Amazing Hancock Brothers open Texanese exhibit Sept. 12 at TAMIU Performing Arts Gallery
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Exhibit includes work from the 1990s to 2024
The Arts
Transitions exhibit, work of Miki Rodriguez, opens this evening, Oct. 6, at the Laredo Center for the Arts
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Former Laredoan greeted with a heartfelt homecoming reception
The Re-Con
Out of Time
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Gone: even fading friendships, the lapse of devotion, the failure of vows, and the mirage of ’til death do us part
The Re-Con
Books become you
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Why should I reread a book? To ache. To witness. To wonder. To delight. And to experience again others’ lives in order to enlarge our own. To make not just a living but a life worth living.
Essay
“Just papers; nothing important,” I told the clerk at the Post Office, knowing in fact that the box held the weight of dreams, a desire for redemption, and the wish to be remembered in another way
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When he came to my office two days before he took his life, his former elegance was in full display, even now as a thin, old man with a voice still attached to his younger self, a man wearing a handsome black coat, a crisp white shirt, and red suspenders
The Re-Con
Humpty, Frumpty, Plumpty, Chumpty, Rumpty, Dumbty, Duncey, Numpty, Scumty, Glumty, Grumpy Trumpty
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Ode to the bronzed sore loser barking lies
to chumps like a carnival clown; never one
to take the high road: may he find his way to the pen