Describing News from Home’s distinct quality of attention stumps me every time I watch, but I would like to look at what’s before me in the way Akerman does, equanimous in the face of all that vacancy and rush. I would like to look and go on looking with that degree of alertness.
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Jonathon Atkinson teaches high school English, and creative writing with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. His writing has appeared in The Third Rail. He lives in Oakland, CA, where he is at work on a novel.
I so badly want what Ursula Le Guin once called for—stories that allow for the discernment of other ways of being, and which imagine grounds for hope.