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Pages 7 to 10 It’s Back, Sunday July 18. Ad. p16 FREE! News You Can Use • Riverwest, Harambee and The East Side Vol 20 Issue 7 JULY 2021 changed forever during your time. The way people worked and earned a living. The things that were being produced. The very values driving human life and activity were reexamined and significant changes were begun. This brings me to the point of this Letter from Zagora. It’s a call to action to each of you in the still active, still vibrant, still caring neighborhood of Riverwest. You need to come together at this time. You need to gather and discuss things. You need to decide on the things you are willing to fight for, the things his month’s 4-page centerspread — you are willing to work for, the things “Free Speech/Hate Speech/Outright you want to keep. TLies” — is by Barbara J. Miner, a And the things you are willing to writer/photographer/artist and longtime lose. resident of Riverwest. Miner, currently en- So. Let’s get to it. rolled in the Master of Fine Arts program Garden Park. Do you want to keep at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, it? used a variety of media to create the proj- Affordable housing. Do you want ect under the guidance of UWM professor to keep it? Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Letter from Zagora: Discussions, Decisions, Destiny The right to vote. Do you want to Miner began the work in the fall of keep it? Garden Park , Prairie Garden July 2002, Vince Bushell 2020 and continued into 2021, increasingly Democracy. Do you want to keep concerned about how to curtail the prolif- Letter from Zagora: Discussions, Decisions, Destiny it? eration of hate speech and disinformation/ What else is on the list? You need to lies without gutting the free speech rights Hello, my friends. Some of you may re- opportunities to practice this “one art” in make some lists. You need to make some enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. For decisions. more information and photo/image cred- member that during the time I served as edi- the months and years to come. You will lose tor of the Riverwest Currents, occasionally a beloved relatives, dear friends, places, and We used to do this all the time when its, scan the QR code on the final page of I lived in Riverwest. You can all get out the 4-page centerspread. Miner’s photogra- mysterious email would appear in my inbox, institutions you have come to treasure. Many somehow sent to me by a future me, from of you will lose your livelihoods, even your of your houses now, after the pandemic phy website: BarbaraJMiner.com. Miner’s is at bay, at least for those of you who blog: BarbaraJMiner.blogspot.com. the neighborhood of Zagora, which is what lives. So practice. Think about it. Get ready. Riverwest is called by its future residents. And also, fight back. have gotten your vaccinations. So call Well, even though I am no longer the editor There are many things, many lives, many some meetings. Get together. Yell at each The People’s Holiday is still of the Currents, and indeed, have moved battles, that you will not lose. Many val- other. Laugh and get drunk. Make some yours! Riverwest24 2021: out of Riverwest to Colorado, the other day iant tales are told of the time you are living plans. Set some agendas and get to work. The Bonus Edition this email popped up in my inbox with the through right now, stories of courage and Remember how much fun that used to subject “Letter from Zagora.” So I thought brilliance and hard work. Stories of people be? It’s time to do it again. Friday, July 23, 7pm - Saturday, July I would send it along to Ms Lee and Vince going through despair and coming out the Oh, I kind of wish I could come back 24, 7pm and see if they might like to put it in the other side with fresh ideas and strength of to Riverwest from Zagora and join in on The organizers of the Riverwest24 paper. Hope all you Riverwesters are doing character that brought you through to a fu- those meetings. They’re going to be hard. (RW24) just released the following infor- well, tending your gardens, and getting your ture that we are enjoying today. There will be tears. Don’t send anyone to mation at press time. Get ready for the vaccinations! Looking back, it has become obvious the hospital (you know who you are). People’s Holiday 2021 and remember: Jan Christensen - Cortez, Colorado that the time you are living through right Now it’s time for some discussions. The Holiday is and has always been what now was a turning point for the culture. Some decisions. Because yes, this is a you make it! reetings! It’s so wonderful to have There was much uncertainty about the pan- time of Destiny. Good luck. And have This is the Bonus Edition year! We the opportunity to communicate demic. Indeed, it was a time of great loss. fun. are observing the People's Holiday, but with you, especially my friends Many of you lost friends and relatives, as Gwho are alive to read this letter, but are did I during that time. It only became clear not in our usual fashion. There will be no formal registration, no scoring, no lead- no longer with us here, in Zagora. I just later how many elders we lost, and how dev- n other People’s Holiday news: erboard. Anyone is welcome to ride their want to thank you from the bottom of my astating that was to the culture going into MishMash is back! After taking a bike and attend bonuses. heart for all the hard work you are doing the future. The saddest part, to us today, was “hiatus” in 2020, this year the 10th There will be a Bonus Zine, which in your time to make Zagora the beautiful the hesitancy that many people showed to I Annual MishMash Street Festival will riders can pick up (at no cost!) from and bountiful place it is today. I also want getting the vaccines. This meant that many take place from 7-11pm Friday, July noon-6pm at Start/Finish on Friday, July to reassure you that the hard decisions you more people were lost than had to be, and 23, on the street at Burleigh and Frat- 23. make and the effort you put forward – it’s all that variations of the virus have kept oc- ney. Hop off your bike and grab a drink Inside the zine you will find: a list of worth it – don’t give up or be discouraged! curring, making our culture today one that at Art*Bar to party with your neighbors all the bonuses, blank pages so you can The time you are living through right has a much more challenging time dealing and Dead Man’s Carnival, “a live mu- score yourself, keep track of your own now is pivotal. The neighborhood, and with illness and recurring epidemics. Cli- sic circus variety show” by Professor laps, and record your memories and indeed the whole country, stands on the mate change has had a multiplying effect Pinkerton & Friends! achievements. If you want, you can check precipice of great change, and it is certainly on these problems, so it has become one of off bonuses as you do them. This is a cre- frightening. our greatest challenges to address the illness ate-your-own-adventure year. Like every And I won’t lie to you. You are facing that we deal with today. Many aspects of life year, the bonuses will be announced on many losses and many hard lessons. July 23rd, and we hope to have about 100! I’m reminded of a poem I loved during July Contents We will have a traditional rider's your time, “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. p 3 - Gardeners Market Riverwest Currents meeting at 6:30pm at Start/Finish, and It starts this way: p.4.- Elders PO Box 716 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0716 a closing ceremony at 7pm on Saturday, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; p.5 - Spotlight p.6 - North Point Walk July 24. so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” p7 10- Miner Free Speech p.11- Bikes & Two Birds Bishop goes on to counsel us to “… p.12-Teens Grow Greens Lose something every day.” Then she sug- p.13- Corner Bar & Music gests we, “…practice losing farther, losing p.14- Calendar faster….” My friends, you will have lots of p.15- Comics 2 JULY 2021 Lovely clematis is climbing up the lattice at a neighbor’s gate. 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