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....