This week on Inland Journal:
Audrey Nelson talks with Colin Delargy from the Atlanta Housing Innovation Lab about what Spokane can learn from Atlanta about housing.
"We realized that there are things that the city can do that our housing authority can't do. There are things our housing authority can do that our land bank can't do. There are things our land bank authority can do that our transit authority can't do. And we realized we probably need everyone to be in the same room talking about what we want to do and how we can help each other do it."
University of Washington medical researcher Nathan Sackett tells us about how psychedelics have value for medicinal purposes.
"I would say from about 2006 on, there's been a rapid growth of interest by a large number of researchers. I think the sort of cultural shift in the last couple of years has been driven by the huge need for more treatments — for everything from depression to PTSD to substance use disorders. I think it's becoming increasingly clear that, yeah, we really need more options available to folks."
Spokane author Gregory Spatz talks about his new novel, “The Vivaldi Church.” It’s a little bit about the Italian composer who wrote “The Four Seasons,” but it’s also partly about the Ospedale, the all-female musical ensemble that played during high society events in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries.
"They had to be concealed behind this metal grate so you couldn't see them at all and they would perform looking down on their audience and the point of it was this separation from the appearance of the musician and the music so that you would just hear the music and you could fantasize that these were like angels and you see the paintings of them still and all these in the Pieta and many other places in Venice, these sort of imagined cherubs playing music up there in the sky."
