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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...
The Mindful Kitchen: Acorn Squash Old Fashioned | Recipe by Kristen Williams
Acorn Squash Old Fashioned Recipe by Kristen Williams Serves 4 2 Acorn Squash 1/3 c. bourbon 1 c. brown sugar Angostura bitters 2 Tbs. butter 1 c. walnuts, chopped and toasted 1 c. pomegranate arils* Fresh sprigs of rosemary 1. Preheat oven to 350° 2. With...
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...
Re-imagining the Possible: An Interview with singer-songwriter Melissa Ferrick
There is a hum and buzz circling through the rafters of the packaged room. It is the eve of my 35th birthday. I’m in the iconic Iron Horse music venue in Northampton, Massachusetts waiting for Melissa Ferrick’s show to begin. It will be one of her last...
Bending Light: An Interview with James Scott Smith by L.M. Browning
Leslie: In your debut poetry collection, Water, Rocks and Trees, you wade into the wild with humble reverence for what natural revelations the wild yields. In your photography, you seem to do the same only with a lens instead of a pen. How do you choose...
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...
On Poetry and Being: An Interview with Krista Tippett by L.M. Browning
Krista Tippett graduated from Brown University in 1983. After earning her degree, she traveled on a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Bonn in West Germany, where she wrote for The New York Times in divided Berlin as a freelance...
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
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
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 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
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...
The Water Protectors of Standing Rock: A Mosaic of Voices from the Movement by L.M. Browning
The Water Protectors of Standing Rock A Mosaic of Voices from the Movement by L.M. Browning • Photography by Elizabeth Hoover Featured in the Spring 2017 Issue | Print Edition » | Visit The Wayfarer Store Our definition of a “wayfarer” is a wanderer whose...
The Farming Revolution and The New Spirituality by Theodore Richards
The Farming Revolution & The New Spirituality by Staff Writer Theodore Richards The following article contains experts from, The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse available through Homebound publications. Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue •...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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...
Reimagining the Possible with Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Tomm Moore
Irish illustrator, comics artist and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tomm Moore was born in Newry, County Down, in Northern Ireland. During his final year at Ballyfermont College in Dublin, Moore co-founded the Cartoon Saloon animation...
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 Wine in the Brine: Walking Cape Cod with Thoreau by Eric D. Lehman
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» After days of planning and packing, I forgot the boots. My wife Amy and I had driven out to Cape...
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
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
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
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
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...