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Birth by Theodore Richards
During the second to last week I worked in Zimbabwe the price of bread tripled overnight. There were strikes and riots in the cities. Mugabe was condemned by the West. The West was condemned by Mugabe. In the bush, the earth cracked in the dry air as the...
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The Mindful Kitchen by Heidi Barr | Autumn 2018
A Wellness and Food Column by Heidi Barr Autumn in Minnesota is defined by leaves turning burnt umber and ruby, picking the last of the garden crops before the first hard freeze, and spending weekends preserving whatever vegetables and fruits have decided...
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Attentive Idling by Iris Graville
Attentive Idling by Staff Writer Iris Graville My compulsion to accomplish is fueled by a computer the size of the pack of cigarettes my mom used to slide into her purse. Portable devices allow us to learn foreign languages, listen to books, and attend...
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On the Path of Praise: An interview with Dr. Rev. Matthew Fox
On the Path of Praise An Interview with Bestselling Author Dr. Rev. Matthew Fox by Staff Writer Theodore Richards Richards: You’ve been working for decades to fight against injustice and fascism. What is it like to see the rise of Trump? Are you...
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The New Myth by Theodore Richards
The New Myth by Theodore Richards Adapted from The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse "Where’s your mother?” my father asked, fumbling with his keys and, more significantly, his emotions. He couldn’t bear to go inside to look...
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Writer in a Bulletproof Vest by Iris Graville
Writer in a Bulletproof Vest by Iris Graville Almost ten years ago, I got hooked on “Castle,” a television series about New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives. Cop shows don’t usually appeal to me, but in this one, main character Rick Castle was a...
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The Inner-frontier: An Exploration of Verse, Psyche & Self with David Whyte
The Inner-frontier An Exploration of Verse, Psyche & Self A Conversation with David Whyte by Editor-in-chief L.M. Browning Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother and found his true self while walking...
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The Kennedy Center: A Legacy of Grassroots Compassion
The Kennedy Center A Legacy of Grassroots Compassion by L.M. Browning with Kelly Kancyr The Kennedy Center was founded in 1951. It stands as a testament to the force of a small group of dedicated citizens to impact change in our communities. The...
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Reimagining the Possible with Artist Nancy C. Woodward
Nancy C. Woodward is an award winning photographic and mixed media artist. Her shadow portraits, colorful trees and ethereal landscapes depict unique views of the natural world. Nancy photographs moments when the natural world appears changed. She...
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Light-time by Gail Collins-Ranadive
The Enviromental Column (Photo Above my Issue Feature Photographer, James Scott Smith) Binge reading back issues of The Wayfarer for this essay, I sit out on my Southern Nevada patio in light that is so vivid I can almost believe that it is just now...
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Forest Bathing | A Poem by Saizan Owen
Forest Bathing by Saizan Owen There is a way of entering the forest when the breeze of the trees becomes your guide when the cool gray-green days and humid blue-green nights become your own skin where the unfurling paths through the emerald...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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