ISSUE 09: CONNECTION

feb 2025

we are at once

connected
Disconnected
Hyperconnected

from the editors

contributed pieces

LEOS ROAr! EDITOR CHATS

From Danny and Nick, co-editors in chief: We discovered we are both Leos, born two days apart, and when you put two lions together we can’t help but make a lot of commotion! Welcome to “Leos Roar,” a new, recurring column in Leo in Bloom and a place for the two of us to share email conversations we’ve had on topics that rumble and boom loudly within us.

Designed by Nick Pentzell

Leos Roar: Cowardly Lions

Nick: Not so much a lion’s tale, but the tail that peeks out as a telltale giveaway, even when I’m trying bravely to disguise my fears. (E.g., remember how Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz movie uses his tail like a security blanket, and how it won’t stay put under the Cossack coat he…