Gone Magazine

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People fast for a variety of different reasons.  The top three, from what I’ve read, are spirituality, health and as a form of protest.
I decided to do a 4-5 day juice fast to help me quit smoking.  What does fasting have to do with smoking?  I don’t know, maybe nothing.  In the process of denying [...]

Let go and let God…the words seemed to echo off my footsteps as I walked down the sidewalk.  The arrogance of the phrase was the first thing to hit me earlier as I sat in a court ordered aa meeting; to think that god’s will may only be asserted after the release of our own.  [...]

Everybody has seen them. Those increasingly infinitesimal blotches of ink buried in the newspaper. Looking at them now, you would be hard pressed to guess that this underrated art form was once a cultural phenomenon. They started out with simple enough origins as little commercials to draw new readers to the Sunday edition, at the [...]