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Personal Essay: Intimate Space by David Sparenberg

6/9/2023

By David Sparenberg

"Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are".

- Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

I am a human member. My home is of intimate space. I live between Earth and Sky. I am between land and water.

The ocean-world that cannot be crossed in a single day, a single night, or even in a single lifetime, starts and ends at my bare feet. Unbroken rhythm washing the singing sand surges between my toes, bubbling beneath where I stand, under my soles.

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Personal Essay: No More Shame: A Case for Uncovering Middle-Aged Legs by LaDonna Witmer

6/2/2023

By LaDonna Witmer

Legs. They’re what I notice most often about other women, aside from face and hair and outfit and all the other things we love to judge.

Lest you think I have ulterior motives, I’m not trawling for a conquest or stalkee. I’m a straight, cis, aging Gen X-er with a tidily manicured set of body image issues. A 5’9” size 16 sort of woman: bigger than some, smaller than others, and utterly average by American standards of measurement. I’m just kind of hung up on legs.

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How to Setup Solar

Step 1. Create a Homepage

Even if you already have a home page, you'll need to create a new one since Solar needs a blank page to automatically pull and display your blog posts in the magazine layout. You can create a new homepage by going to "Pages" at the top, click on the "+" icon and select "Standard" page.

Step 2. Apply "solar" Page Layout

Once you create a new homepage, apply the "solar" page layout to the new homepage. You can do this by clicking on "Pages" at the top, select the homepage on the left, and under "HEADER TYPE", select "solar".

Step 3. Create A Blog

If your site doesn't have a Weebly "Blog" page, then create a new "Blog" page. You can do this by clicking on "Pages" at the top, click on the "+" icon and select "Blog Page".

Step 4. Setup Blog Automation

Come back to this screen and fill in the input boxes with the URL of your "Blog" page and 3 category URLs from that blog.

Blog Automation Setup

SOLAR's 'Blog Automation' feature automatically pulls content from your blog and displays it on other parts of your site. In order to activate this feature, simply add the URL of your blog, and the URL of 3 categories from your blog, to the input boxes below.

Blog's URL

Activates Owl carousel slider, ticker, breadcrumbs and latest posts (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real-20

Category 1 URL

Activates category 1 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/dog.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20

Category 2 URL

Activates category 2 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/cat.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/news-from-the-nest

Category 3 URL

Activates category 3 section on 'Solar' page layout (e.g., https://www.mysite.com/blog/category/bird.html).

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/quail-bell-affiliates

Note: You can hide this box under "Theme>Theme Options>Automation [Editor Only]".

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