August 2025 Postcard from Joel Vega
Joel Vega is a well-rounded artist and poet who also sends my first international or non-U.S. postcard as he writes in from Arnhem, The Netherlands! If you click on the above link attached to his name, you’ll see a stupendous ekphrastic poem that melds his interests/expertise in both art and poetry! On his postcard, he writes:
“The front [of the postcard] is Dutch for ‘And We Live happily ever after.’ Don’t we look for fairytales in the fast routine and rush of life?”
His words resonate for me, as someone who writes fairytales as novels. That is, I insist on depicting happy endings despite presenting the travails of peoples living within authoritarian contexts. In fact, in a wonderful synchronicity with his postcard message, my first novel DOVELION has the subtitle of A Fairy Tale for Our Times and about 95% of its sections begin with that phrase associated with fairy tales, “Once upon a time…”.
Bedankt, Joel! It’s wonderful to hear from you!
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