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    NATUREGRAM: Two minutes of nothing but pines, plus some calming music

    We can't share with you the sweet aroma of a stand of pine trees in Putnam County, West Virginia. But we can share with you the experience of standing among them. A new WestVirginiiaVille shelter-in-nature short video.

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  • Essays

    PHOTOPOEM: “When Hay Bales Speak to You”

    Let’s talk hay bales. I have, perhaps like you, been spying hay 
bales most all my life. Yet, in all that time haven’t met a hay bale. Up close. The other day, I had my chance.

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  • News,  Video

    VIDEO: ‘Rosa Parks’ feet did not hurt’

    The actual story of the stalwart moment Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 was far more powerful than a supposed frail, tired old Black lady sitting where she shouldn't.

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  • Video

    VIDEO: “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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  • Art,  Essays,  Video

    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, by a pandemic and with winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wanted to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. Then, she kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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  • Art,  Essays

    VIDEO: The Artist’s Work Considered As a Moving Picture Show

    haron Lyn Stackpole's art considered as a video: "I always had a female character in my drawings either in illustration form or comic and I'd have her acting out whatever I was also living in my drawings. For some reason, this was reassuring and helped me to feel less alone."

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  • Essays,  Video

    MAKEITSHORT: Three Not-the-News, Under-a-Minute Videos

    When you are suffering from an overdose of dire news, may we suggest spending a minute with a happy dog tooling down the road, a koto-fueled Japanese fire, and bird upon a Buddha's head?

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  • Editorial,  News,  Video

    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Joe Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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  • Poems

    POEM: The Flavor of Grief

    I have been getting familiar lately with the flavor of grief. It comes on me with no warning. While driving up-river, to shelter-in-Nature. At 68 mph, passing a too-slow, white Chevy truck.

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  • Songs,  Video

    MUSIC VIDEO | An “Over the Rainbow” Primer and Duet

    "Let the boys have the damn song." How "Over the Rainbow" almost didn't make the cut for "The Wizard of Oz." A look back at a "sacred" song in the American canon, on the occasion of creation of a down-and-dirty music video version.

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  • News,  Video

    JUSTICE PROJECT | “Pills & Suits” & Patrick Morrisey

    In an illustrated excerpt from Pulitzer-winner Eric Eyre's "DEATH IN MUD LICK," he describes WV Attorney General's Patrick Morrisey's entanglement with one of the huge pharmaceutical companies that helped spawn the opioid crisis, and the devastation that continues to affect families.

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  • Essays

    Note on Site Update: nov13.2020

    This site is being expanded more fully into a general multimedia magazine and showcase for multimedia storytelling.

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  • Essays,  Poems

    POEM: “Window No. 1”

    One of my earliest, notable windows was in the basement bedroom I shared with 
brother Rick. It opened to the left, sliding open with a satisfying 'chonk!' Revealing the level grass of our backyard.

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  • Essays,  Poems

    PICTURE|POEM: A Dozen Ways to Look at Chicago, Illinois

    I've always been intrigued by human beings whose lives are lived just below and sometimes at the level of the clouds. They surround us by the thousands, the tens of thousands. In blue rooms, staring at TVs in their skyboxes. Doing Downward Facing Dog, 2,000 feet above the sidewalk.

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  • Essays,  Poems

    POEM | “My Paragraph & I”

    'I want my paragraph to strut, carved cane in hand, the Left Bank, like a proper boulevardier. I want my paragraph to wow you. leave you wanting more. To, if possible, make you gasp. To make you—prose willing—cry. And then, to laugh. And then to laugh at your crying ...'

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Welcome to The StoryIsTheThing, featuring poetry, essays, photo-essays, video & more. The site is a production of writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. Its companion site is AmpMediaProject.com, where we do all the heavy lifting of moving pixels around. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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