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The Crisis of Education by Theodore Richards

 Appears in The Wayfarer, Autumn/Winter Issue 2022 | Visit Store» Crisis of Education: Childhood in the Age of Loneliness  Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards From the melting polar caps to violence in our cities to the rise of fascist governments, ours is an...

A Posthumous Conversation with Wayfarer Rachel Carson

by Iris Graville, from the Spring/Summer issue which is available now. Nearly every issue of this journal includes interviews with wayfarers, described as those whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. These...

Life Unfolding and Black Bean Taco Salad

The Mindful Kitchen, by Heidi Barr: Autumn 2021 Issue Raise your hand if you have ever been impatient when it comes to seeing results.  Everyone raises their hands, including me.  Humans seem wired to strive, to grow, to seek improvement. (Even if we’re not...

Inner Climate Change: Spirituality in the Age of Loneliness

By Theodore Richards, from the 2021 autumn/winter issue I’m on the bus, in a crowd but somehow feeling lonely. We are heading north, along Lakeshore Drive, past Lake Michigan, its waves shimmering in the sunlight, waterfowl dancing along its edge. No one notices....

COMMONPLACE

A poem by Amy Nawrocki, from the autumn 2021 issue When I am disorientatedand longingfor the company of resolve I find myself living among frondsnext to the rock named for emptiness every day imagining geraniumsthe orientating newnessof honeysuckle. Amy Nawrocki is...

LIVING IN THE DARK: The Lineage of the National Park Service

A Travel Column by L.M. Browning from the Spring 2021 Special Double Issue Sequoia National Park,Sierra Nevada Mountains, California The sun was setting and the misty blanket of night was rising at the base of the towering Sequoia grove. I’d wandered off the beaten...

GREEN IN THE TIME OF VIRUS

A poetic offering from our Spring 2021 issue, by Gunilla Norris

12 Tiny Things, Two Open Hearts

Meet 12 Tiny Things authors Heidi Barr & Ellie Roscher, interviewed by Wayfarer Editor Leslie M. Browning | From the Spring 2021 Issue

The Bouquet of the Last Direction

by Frank LaRue Owen, from The School of Soft-Attention When the soul becomes unburdenedit’s like a new saddle on a fresh horse. Suddenly the trail feels right again,and the strong horizon line in front of you as you turnbecomes its own form of soothing medicine....

Our Angel of the Get Through | An Interview with Andrea Gibson

From our Autumn 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› The Wayfarer of our Autumn 2019 Issue | Shop Now All Rights Reserved.   Our Angel of the Get Through   A Conversation...
Life & the Arts | A New Column by Eric D. Lehman

Life & the Arts | A New Column by Eric D. Lehman

A New Column by Eric D. Lehman   Recently, I was wandering through a vaulted museum hall, steel and concrete and glass packed with abstract sculptures that look vaguely like intestines, paintings resembling organized vomit, and lines of bored...

Contemplating Fatherhood by Theodore Richards

Contemplating Fatherhood by Theodore Richards

The Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards   “Three Girls?!” I have three daughters. This is generally one of the first things I tell people about myself because it is, I have come to know, the central fact of my life. It is perhaps also true that...

Gifts of the Ordinary by Heidi Barr

Gifts of the Ordinary by Heidi Barr

by Heidi Barr, an excerpt from Woodland Manitou Kahlil Gibran once wrote, “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” There is not a day that goes by that I do not have the opportunity to dwell on 30 seconds of disappointment, or two...

The Souls of Wild Folk by Chad Hanson

The Souls of Wild Folk by Chad Hanson

by Chad Hanson Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit the Store»   We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. —Henry Beston, The Outermost House As a kid I rode a pony with a painted coat. My family...

A Something Less than Nothing by Joseph Little

A Something Less than Nothing by Joseph Little

by Joseph Little An excerpt from Letters from the Other Side of Silence Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit the Store» Here’s the truth: Something happened on that volcano in Guatemala. I’m just not sure what. Steve was in the lead,...

Seasonal Ploughman’s Lunch | Mindful Kitchen

Seasonal Ploughman’s Lunch | Mindful Kitchen

The Mindful Kitchen Seasonal. Mindful. Delicious. Introducing a new section to The Wayfarer: The Mindful Kitchen, featuring seasonal recipes to offer on your home table.   Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit Store Seasonal Farmer’s...

Reimagining the Possible: Illustrator Jackie Morris

Reimagining the Possible: Illustrator Jackie Morris

Reimagining the Possible with Illustrator Jackie Morris Interview by L.M. Browning • Illustrations by Jackie Morris Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit the Store» Leslie You grew up in Birmingham, England and lived there until at the...

The Election by Theodore Richards

The Election by Theodore Richards

Appears in The Wayfarer, Spring 2017 Issue (Vol 6. Issue 6) | Visit Store» by Theodore Richards I awake to the peaceful babbling of my one-year-old daughter. I am surprisingly well rested, considering the fact that I finished off a whole bottle of wine the night...

Reimagining the Possible: Jada Fitch

Reimagining the Possible: Jada Fitch

Birds of a Feather An Interview with Illustrator Jada Fitch by L.M. Browning Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue • Print – eEdition Jada Fitch was born in 1984, and grew up in a family-built log cabin in Sebago, Maine, just up the road from her...

The Wayfarer: L.M. Browning

The Wayfarer: L.M. Browning

Widening the Circle A Profile of Award-winning Author and Publisher L.M. Browning by Staff Writer Eric D. Lehman Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue • Print - eEdition I am large, I contain multitudes. –Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” The Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of...

The Meadow by Francesca G. Varela

The Meadow by Francesca G. Varela

by Francesca G. Varela ♦ Photography by Duncan George Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here» I remember the night we heard the coyotes. It was summer, or almost summer, and I was still a teenager. Although long past...

In Contemplation of a Murder by Theodore Richards

In Contemplation of a Murder by Theodore Richards

Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here» The Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards   Watching/Seeing Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most...

The Fortingall Yew by Eric D. Lehman

The Fortingall Yew by Eric D. Lehman

By Staff Writer Eric D. Lehman • Feature Photographer  Duncan George Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here»   After walking the walls of Stirling Castle, my wife and I drove through a rainy green country on the...

 A Light Inside the Mountain by Jason Kirkey

 A Light Inside the Mountain by Jason Kirkey

Rewilding Column by staff writer Jason Kirkey • Feature Photographer: Duncan George Appears in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer. Order a print or the full e-edition here» There is a glen in Ireland. The entrance is difficult to find—you have to know what you’re...

A Wayfarer: Maryam Mafi

A Wayfarer: Maryam Mafi

Iranian Author & Translator Maryam Mafi A Profile by Staff Writer L.M. Browning As featured in the Spring 2016 Issue of The Wayfarer | Reserve a print copy or e-edition» Maryam Mafi began her education at Bahar-e No’w Elementary School in Tehran-Iran in the late...

The Wayfarer Spring 2016 Issue

The Wayfarer Spring 2016 Issue

The spring issue of The Wayfarer is now available! In this landmark issue, Editor-in-Chief L.M. Browning interviews Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Tomm Moore, co-founder of Cartoon Saloon and the creative force behind such films as The Secret of Kells and Song of...

Amy Nawrocki Named Poetry Editor of The Wayfarer

Amy Nawrocki Named Poetry Editor of The Wayfarer

STONINGTON, CT— Homebound Publications is pleased to announce Amy Nawrocki as the new Poetry Editor for The Wayfarer. After an extensive search, Nawrocki was appointed Editor by L.M. Browning Founder of both Homebound Publications and Editor-in-chief of The Wayfarer....

The Charity Houses of Cape Cod | A poem

The Charity Houses of Cape Cod | A poem

from the collection Reconnaissance by Amy Nawrocki This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   This is what Thoreau called those rickety and...

Body Prayer

Body Prayer

by Mary Petiet This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well....

Reimagining the Possible: Nelba Márquez-Greene

Reimagining the Possible: Nelba Márquez-Greene

by Staff Writer L.M. Browning This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   On December 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook...

Anam Cara

Anam Cara

by Benjamin DeVos This article is featured in the Autumn 2015 issue of The Wayfarer (Vol 4 Issue 2) Visit our bookstore to purchase an e-edition or print edition. Go to the Store»   When my eighty-five year old grandmother arrived at our house for a belated...

The Role of the Trickster in a Time of Change

The Role of the Trickster in a Time of Change

From Rigid Religion to Fluid Interspirituality; From Industrial Capitalism to Earth Community Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards The following article contains experts from, The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse available...

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