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In the Narrows: Lascaux II and the Geography of Hope
by Leslie Van Gelder 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 the replica of Lascaux was built into a low hillside near the original...
Altruistic Hiking
by L.M. Browning Featuring field photos by the author. 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» May 4, 2015 | Napatree Point, Rhode...
Little Kinglet | A Poem
by Camille Thomasson 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» The kinglet in the winter wood weighs as much as a plump cherry. When amorous,...
A Wayfarer: David K. Leff
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» The Sage of Collinsville An In-depth Profile by Staff Writer Eric D. Lehman A writer’s home...
Ordinary Marvels | A Poem
by Timothy Norton 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» I wonder why people ask about the weather; Or if a landscape is beautiful. The...
Pointed Reminders: Revolutionary Obelisks by David K. Leff
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Narrative is an important means by which to gain access to the meanings of the obelisk. —Grant Parker, Stanford University It needled the sky like a stone rocket aimed for the clouds. As I gazed heavenward along the...
The Return Journey | Spring 2015 Edition
Revisiting the Modern Classics with Eric D. Lehman | The Spring 2015 Edition
Building a Temple of the Heart by Perle Besserman
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Photo by Ryan Upp, Feature Photographer of the Issue Building a Temple of the Heart by Perle Besserman When my husband and I first met as residents in a Honolulu Zen center, we were each holding fast to some very...
Soft Fascination by Jeff DeBellis
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Soft Fascination by Jeff DeBellis I built a perfect teepee with dry juniper twigs filled its interior with bits of paper and lit it with a cardboard match. The flame steadily climbed unil the entire teepee was...
Listening to Our Listening by Gary Whited
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Last summer I sat on top of Hurricane Point overlooking Silver Lake in central New Hampshire. Wind sounded through scant trees on the steep little hill mingled with the hum of a distant motorboat, then two of...
Pear Blossom and Cherry Blossom after Mandelstam by Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Photo by Ryan Upp, Feature Photographer of the Issue Pear Blossom and Cherry Blossom after Mandelstam by Susan Kelly-DeWitt Pear blossom and cherry blossom argue with me. Their wisdom is ephemeral but they...
Dear Mary Oliver by Gloria Heffernan
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Dear Mary Oliver, by Gloria Heffernan Thank you for inviting me to eavesdrop on your conversations with the grasshopper; for allowing me to follow at a safe distance during your solitary walks through the fields just...
A Spirituality of Wildness
Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Spring 2015 Issue
Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Diptych on New Mexico by Kael Moffat 1. Along I-40, Outside Gallup Beside bones of coyotes bleached like saints, Beside blood dried on concrete like wine on lace, Beside tufts of fur strewn like abandoned...
Summer People by Gail Collins-Ranadive
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition Abandoned!! I felt utterly abandoned, stranded in front of the neighborhood ice cream stand, reading the ‘closed for the season’ sign. It was after Labor Day, the official end of summer, and 25,000 copies of...
A Wayfarer: Gunilla Norris
by Staff Writer L.M. Browning | Featured in Vol.4 Issue 4
Reimagining the Possible: Sandra Ingerman
An Interview with Sandra Ingerman by Staff Writer L.M. Browning
Doing, Not Doing: Reflections on Conservation, Wildness, and the Dao
Re-wilding Column by Staff Writer Jason Kirkey, Spring 2015 Issue
Wild Silence: Seeking Solace in the Age of the Digital Din
Letter from the Editor by L.M. Browning, Spring 2015 Issue
Reimagining the Possible | An Interview with Byron Metcalf
by Staff Writer Jamie K. Reaser Article Appears in The Wayfarer Vol 3 Iss 4 | Winter 2014 | Visit our Shop to Order» 1. Mary Oliver begins her poem, The Journey, by writing, “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began…” Tell me what that day was like for...
The Season of Silence
Contemplative Column by Staff Writer Theodore Richards, Winter 2014 Issue
Independent Books, Independent Minds
Our Indie Bookstore Spotlight: Bank Square Books, Mystic Connecticut
The River and its Way
Article Appears in The Wayfarer Vol 3 Iss 4 | Winter 2014 | Visit our Shop to Order» Image by Duncan George | Feature Artist for the Issue Essay by Jason Kirkey When I was very young my family lived on a ridge that divides two watersheds. On the eastern side of...
A Wayfarer | New York Times Bestseller Wallace J. Nichols
Article Appears in The Wayfarer Vol 3 Iss 4 | Winter 2014 | Visit our Shop to Order» by Staff Writer Jamie K. Reaser “Blue Mind is, deep down, about human curiosity, knowing ourselves more and better.” —Céline Cousteau in Blue Mind I’ve twice had...
Charting the Way for Change
Letter from the Editor by L.M. Browning, Winter 2014 Issue
Welcome to The Wayfarer
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Essex Books: A Literary Potting Shed For Local And Regional Authors
Feature Column: Independent Books, Independent Minds: Our Indie Bookstore Spotlight by Writer Susan K. McCann, proprietor of Essex Books Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Photo of Gather © Jody Dole In the book, The Potting Shed, author Linda Joan Smith writes, “In such a...
String Theory by Gunilla Norris
Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Gunilla Norris is the feature poet of the issue and has four poems featured in the edition. Photo © Stuart Madden It is so bright today that the two fishermen—dark silhouettes— seem to be standing on water. Perhaps they are father...
Four Nesting Boxes by Diana Woodcock
Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 Diana Woodcock has two poems featured in this issue. Photo © Lee Coursey surround the dune shack, each one claimed by a pair of tree swallows busy preening and mating, setting up housekeeping, sweeping insects from the air. Song...
The Old Man And The Heron by John Grey
Appeared in Volume 3 Issue 3 John Grey has two poems featured in this issue. Photo Left: © Jacquie Roecker | www. jacquieroecker.com Heron at edge of pond, a spike of blue in green reeds as, in the distance, an old man peers through the telescope. His...