FINALLY! Eye of the Needle: Cycles

Eye of the Needle: Cycles comes to you after long days of what feels like a short Summer. In spite of how fleeting it was, we made time to take everything in. We held vigil; played in the park, in the woods, and in the pools; we gobbled up our high summer bounty like there was no tomorrow. We lived in the moment, celebrating the Cycle of Summer so fully that we almost have stores enough for the coming Winter.

What will these dark months bring to us? If the Summer is any indication, there is no way to say. We only know to open our hearts to what feels genuine in each moment and see what life brings to our doorstep, no matter the season.

And this is what we ask of you. To Open yourself up to sharing your story, a small bit of yourself. A glimpse into your world. If there is anything we’ve learned by compiling this work it is that a simple act of love and sharing makes us whole again. We invite you to continue the Cycle with us and send your submission for our next issue by January 15, 2010.

For now though, we offer you this little volume as a ray of light, warming everything within you in the way you need it most to keep you shining throughout the Fall and Winter.

Lauren, Catherine & Lisa
Editors, Eye of the Needle
editors.eyeoftheneedle@gmail.com
www.eyeoftheneedlezine.blogspot.com

Cycles - Submissions deadline extended! June 17th

Eye of the Needle is a homespun magazine created to explore parenting through creative expression.

For our next issue we invite you to share with us your perspective on Cycles. We welcome your
stories, writings, drawings, photographs, craft ideas, recipes, random musings, poems or anything wonderful you wish to give.

Cycles are omnipresent in our lives, we schedule our activities around the rising and setting of the sun---the cycle of a day. We think in cycles: weeks, months, years, childhood, adolescence,
adulthood.

Those benchmark times in our lives sometimes called ‘milestones’ can mark the end and beginning of a cycle. Graduation, getting married, and giving birth all mark the beginning and end of the cycles we organize our lives around.

What cycle are you in? How do cycles affect your family? Do they affect how you parent? What cycle do you see yourself in and how does that differ from where you are? What cycle do you like best?

Send your submission by June 17th to: editors.eyeoftheneedle@gmail.com

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Eye of the needle: Dualism

Eye of the Needle has been gestating with us for some time now. We visualized a communal, creative space available for mothers and nurturers of all types to express themselves. A zine seemed to fit this notion perfectly and functions as our document, our homage, to our collective creativity.

It is our belief that in becoming mothers, our lives transform. At times, the change affects us so radically that we experience it as loss of ourselves. On easier days we can see it as growth and expansion; our new role stretching us in ways we couldn’t have imagined before, opening us to the new possibilities of our lives. This opening process, allows us the opportunity to view the everyday activities of our lives as creative and spiritual.

By intentionally documenting these experiences, our contributors generously give voice to those facets of motherhood that usually go unseen. We want to express our gratitude to everyone who participated in making this, our first issue, so stirring.

With its publication, we say farewell to the Winter. Pregnant with the rebirth of the sun and the force of life itself. Her end brings us to the beginning and back again. We invite you to plant a seed that will germinate and flower in time for our next issue, Eye of the Needle: Cycles, May 31, 2009.

Catherine & Lauren
Editors, Eye of the Needle
editors.eyeoftheneedle@gmail.com
www.eyeoftheneedlezine.blogspot.com