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#78: Arise and Shine

From The EditorNow is a time that is messy and wild and confusing and challenging. What else is there to do but leap into the unknown. Arise! Shine!

Issue #77: Terra Firma

From The EditorIn the end, it all comes down to the earth beneath our feet. Soil, dust, humus,…

#76: THE LAYERS

From The Editor‘Live in the layers, not in the litter’, instructed poet Stanley Kunitz. We’re taking his directions…

Issue #75: The Great Unknown

From The Editor, UncategorizedHello, 2021. Where will you take us? What seeds will sprout? What ideas will grow? How…

#74: Shadow Play

From The EditorIt can be said our world is cracking, has cracked. One of our worlds, anyway. Darkness…

#73: PATTERN MAKING

From The EditorWe are patterns. We exist within them, we make them, we break them. As old patterns…

#72: GRACE

From The EditorWe are gracious, we are graceless, we are occasionally graceful. We try, we fail, we try…

#71: Twenty-Twenty

From The EditorMillions of hectares of fire. Billions of trees, shrubs, insects, burnt. Hundreds of millions of animals,…

#70: Light Years

From The EditorTime and transformation, darkness and illumination, mystery and magic. This month we’re shining bright. We’re exploring…

From The EditorThe fecund aliveness of the compost heap. The graceful release of red leaves in autumn. The awe of being alive and the mystery of death. We’re going there. Ghost gardens and plant genetics. Grief and medicine. Natural burial and backyard farms. Take our hand and wander into the darkness/light with us.

#68: Power Play

From The EditorPower is both a problem and a solution. It’s a disaster when used by few for the wrong reasons, it’s beautiful when harnessed by many for the right ones. This month we’re harnessing the power of plants, of thought, of connection, of love. “The most common way people give up their power is by believing they don’t have any”, said novelist Alice Walker. We’re empowered, because we believe.