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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 •...
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My Peaceful Night in the Middle-East by Karen Levy
My Peaceful Night in the Middle-East by Karen Levy, author of My Father’s Gardens Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue • Print – eEdition The door clicked shut softly behind me and I was alone in the small room for the night. My surroundings were unfamiliar yet I had a...
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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 grandparents’ general...
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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...
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Reimagining the Possible: Kelly Kancyr
An Interview with Singer Songwriter Kelly Kancyr by Staff writer L.M. Browning Featured in the Autumn 2016 Issue • Print - eEdition The first time I saw Kelly Kancyr play was at the Greenwich Art Festival on the lawn of the Bruce Art Museum in Connecticut. It was a...
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