Issue 1

May 2009

Table of Contents

Editor: O.P.W. Fredericks

Assistant Editor: Daniel Milbo

Cover Photo Copyright 2009 O.P.W. Fredericks

Design Layout and Graphics Copyright 2009 Touch: The Journal of Healing

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Touch: The Journal of Healing is owned and operated by The Lives You Touch Publications

Cover

Introduction . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

                            . . . . . Daniel Milbo

Dedication to Jo Ann Allen, R.N. . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

Touch - a cinquain . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

Editor's Choice: A Terrible Beauty . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

A Terrible Beauty . . . . . Dennis Greene

Contents

Blow, Healing Wind . . . . . Esther Greenleaf Mürer

Miracle Child . . . . . Ed Bennett

untitled photograph . . . . . Maria Basile

TO SYLVIA . . . . . Maria Basile

Her Blue Bowl . . . . . Sherry O’Keefe

Seattle 2006 . . . . . Bebe Cook

Puget Sound (photograph) . . . . . Yvette Wiley

Values . . . . . Toni L. Wilkes

Mustard Seed . . . . . Laura Levesque

The pipes in minor key. . . . . . . . Murray Alfredson

Crescent moon with earthshine . . . . . Christine Klocek-Lim

A Blue Crescent Moon from Space (photograph) . . . . . Expedition 13 Crew, NASA.

A Terrible Beauty . . . . . Dennis Greene

In passing  for Peter . . . . . Dennis Greene

Last Waltz . . . . . Colin Ward

Dying . . . . . Stephen Bunch

Red Leaves, Grey Sky (photograph) . . . . . Christopher Woods

The Source . . . . . Christian Ward

After Burying a Wife . . . . . Donal Mahoney

Habit . . . . . Alarie Tennille

Words . . . . . Arti Subramanian

In Sickness and in Health . . . . . Mary Susan Clemons

Gold (photograph) . . . . . Christopher Woods

Percussion of Valentine’s Day . . . . . Yvette Wiley

A Little Perspective . . . . . Larina Warnock

After Thoughts . . . . . O.P.W. Fredericks

                                 . . . . . Daniel Milbo