LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
ing to contemplate and appreciate the moment. As Rachel writes
about her 6 year-old, she realized
with horror that “the two words I
most commonly spoke to my little
lover of life were: ‘Hurry up.’”
It’s a moving reminder to not let
our lives pass us by, and a joyful
account of how it is possible to
change our lives for the better.
Elsewhere in the issue, Mallika Rao writes about the recent
launch of Amazon Art — the online retail mammoth’s latest venture that has brought together
artwork from more than 150 galleries and 4,500 artists, with
price-tags ranging from $10 to
$4.5 million.
Mallika looks at the alternatives currently available — from
Chelsea galleries to competing
online websites like Artsy. And
though some critics say the vagaries of the art market won’t
support Amazon’s experiment,
smaller-scale art collectors say
they depend entirely on the online art market.
Dominique Mosbergen takes a
look at what it means to be asexual in America. We meet David Jay,
who started the Asexual Visibility
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and Education Network while he
was a student at Wesleyan University. Today, AVEN is the largest asexuality organization in
the world, with an international
membership of almost 70,000. As
As Rachel writes about
her 6 year-old, she realized
with horror that “the two
words I most commonly
spoke to my little lover of life
were: ‘Hurry up.’”
he puts it, “we know that asexual people have been looking for
each other for a long time, but it
wasn’t until the Internet that we
found each other.”
Finally, as part of our ongoing
focus on stress, clinical psychologist Robin Haight shares her
advice on how to avoid stress after returning to work after
a vacation.
ARIANNA