Skipping Stones
Vol. 35, No. 1 March – August 2023 ISSN: 0899-529X
Women in S.T.E.M. • Artistic Expressions • Peace • Birds in Western U.S.
2 Common Birds in the Western United States
6 Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) Contest
As the Deer Bleat • Rosalind Franklin • Elizabeth Gooking Greenleaf
9 Friend
10 Library Dumplings • Adventure
11 Gods of India • How Does it Feel to be New?
12 Mountain Serenity, a poster with photos and a poem
14 Artworks by Eric Chen, Landis Shen, and Angel Vale
17 The Mother Tree • Fairytale
18 Poetry Page: An Eternal State • A Rose • Brown Town
19 A Letter to the Creator, translated from Ukrainian by the author
20 Caged, a poem about the climate crisis
21 What is a Dream? • Peace • Nature’s Plight
22 Artistic Expressions by Students in Oregon
25 The Power of Voices
26 When an Argument Creates Peace
27 Unharmony
28 You vs. Society • Home • Short
29 Making Peace in Corona
30 Pointe Shoes
31 Do Not Flush
32 Converge, Coalesce, Consolidate, and Create Community • Together We Soar • In My Heart
33 Forgotten Tastes of Hong Kong
34 A Wrangled World
35 Photos: Antelope Island (Great Salt Lake) and Bear River Bird Refuge
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Cover “Morning Sky” by Ishika Chakraborty, age 14, Oregon. See p. 22.
3 From the Editor
5 BookShelf
10 Cultural Collage
12 What’s on Your Mind?: Reminiscence • Mountain Serenity
16 Skipping Stones Stew
36 Photos: Bear River Bird Refuge in Utah
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