Literary Magazine a Hot Item

Mandala, the art and literary magazine of NMH, arrives each May and then quickly disappears. The stack in the mail center and the stack in Beveridge dwindle fast. Is it any wonder? Photos, mixed media illustrations, drawings, poems, and short stories by students, faculty, and staff fill its nearly square pages. The sleek volume is put together by Galen Anderson ’09, Natasha Lovaas ’11, Danny Shin ’10, and JaHyun Song ’10. Philip Calabria, the visual arts chair, is the faculty advisor for Mandala. If you've missed a hard copy, view it here.

Here’s an excerpt from Meredith Storrs ’09’s “My College Essay.”

To me, there’s nothing more captivating than mail. Real mail. Not email or IMs. Everyday, I check my mailbox at least two or three times and when I do receive a postcard or letter, I turn it over and over in my hands, thinking about all of the other hands it passed through to get to me.

I find nothing wrong with dancing in the rain, splashing and jumping in puddles.

This summer, I traveled to Eagle Butte, South Dakota and was a volunteer on a Native American reservation. I worked with kids whose parents let them roam the dusty streets till dusk. Most of them had no shoes. I would look out to an ocean of shiny green corn plantings as far as I could see and felt lonely.