An indefatigable dialogue: shape, color & commitment

A young painter's peripatetic journey. By Whitney Smith.

The Balkan Lynx

Social totem rather than a gauge of environmental health.

Eisenstein Under the Bombs

A poetic howl against the idea of war in Ukraine and its

Recipes on the road to spring

Not winter, not spring. Finding the right dishes for an in-

Rewriting history to justify current actions

Pushback against a university changing its name. By Gilbert

The Protest Legacy of Spirituals, Part 2

. . . and its incalculable effect on the civil rights

Letter from the Borderlands in Exile

"Back the bags, we have to leave." On re-inventing life

The Protest Legacy of Spirituals

The codes embedded in spirituals that helped propel the

How to Lay a Hedge

Tips on the art of boundaries . . . and some valuable

When a Thin Place Discovers Us

On bumping up against the unknowable. By Edward O'Connor.

Gaia and the Path of the Earth

Sorting out some opposing views on the living Earth. By

What all that yelling is about

On getting one's feathers in a knot. By Kim Hoff.

Of Art and Mourning

How an artist's eloquent grief charges memory of a departed