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The Crisis of Education by Theodore Richards
Appears in The Wayfarer, Autumn/Winter Issue 2022 | Visit Store» Crisis of Education: Childhood in the Age of Loneliness Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards From the melting polar caps to violence in our cities to the rise of fascist governments, ours is an...
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....
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
Our Angel of the Get Through | An Interview with Andrea Gibson
From our Autumn 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› The Wayfarer of our Autumn 2019 Issue | Shop Now All Rights Reserved. Our Angel of the Get Through A Conversation...
Going Home Again | Wild Silence Travel Column
From our Autumn 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› Going Home Again By L.M. Browning “What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in...
East Meets Southwest | A Conversation with Poet Frank LaRue Owen
From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› The Wayfarer of our Spring 2019 Issue There are certain path crossings that stay with you as fated moments—certain...
Belonging to the Land: A Conversation with Stephen Trimble by L.M. Browning
From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› The Wayfarer of our Spring 2019 Issue - All Photos courtesy of Stephen Trimble. All Rights Reserved. Stephen Trimble tells...
Spring in The Mindful Kitchen with Heidi Barr
From our Spring 2019 Edition | Visit our store to treat yourself to the full issue in either print or digital format. | Browse the Store› “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” —Rainer Maria Rilke In the northland, sometimes spring...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 •...
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...