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...
The Wayfarer Autumn Issue | Now Available for Pre-order
The autumn edition of The Wayfarer is now available to pre-order! Visit our Store» Featured in this Issue: THE CONTEMPLATIVE COLUMN: The Role of the Trickster in a Time of Change by Theodore Richards A WAYFARER: The Sage of Collinsville: An In-depth Profile on Author...
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...
Lynne Harkes | Artist of Spring 2015 Issue
Featured in Vol.4 Issue 1 | The Spring 2015 Edition For several years I painted detailed and often large-scale canvases of flowers. I loved nothing better than spending hours, days and weeks shading and revealing more of the image with each layer of paint. One day I...
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