Call for Submissions — 6.3 Morality

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and confound the other. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves,” says Eleanor Roosevelt. “The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Author Stephen Covey  challenges, “Look at the word responsibility – “response-ability” – the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” 

For this issue, we seek poetry, stories, and essays that recognize and respond to how responsibility and morality affect our perceptions and worldview—ideological, environmental, political, scientific, societal, global. We seek writing that starts the conversation about this new world order as we are coming to know it.  As Canary editor Gail Entrekin shares so eloquently in an article  about the impact of art: “I believe that there are other occasional readers who are just now receiving this news in a visceral way that argument and scientific information have not been able to impart.” Share a piece that exemplifies a cause you are passionate about. Remind readers of the simple things that freedom ensures. Pay attention to the details of a thriving society. A solid civilization and vibrant community look to art for their inspiration.