Summer Light: A Failed Essay in Four Parts – Jake Skeets
This week, Diné poet Jake Skeets brings us into the rising dust, big sky, and bent light of summers on the Navajo Nation, and explores how the body is...
On the Road with Thomas Merton – Fred Bahnson
For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the sacred and the profane were continuous: all was alive with divine presence. Stands of redwoods were his cathed...
The Springing Time – Melanie Challenger
Can we learn from more-than-human beings how to bring our bodies into a more direct conversation with the seasons? In this week’s story, bioethics and...
Echoic Memory – CMarie Fuhrman
This week, author and poet CMarie Fuhrman listens to the forest speak its old stories through the roll of thunder, the river emptied of salmon, and th...
A Hollow Bone – Terry Tempest Williams
In a season of loss, how does absence offer a greater understanding of presence? This week, Terry Tempest Williams brings us into her love affair with...
Tortoise Station – Lydia Millet
Depicting a distant age in which river guardians, mothmen, and condor trackers strive to protect a dying world, novelist Lydia Millet asks whether we ...
Memory of Winter – Zoë Schlanger
For plants, the moment of spring emergence is the gamble of their lives, says journalist Zoë Schlanger. They rely on a convergence of genetic instruct...
Theia – Brian Isett
In this week’s story, biologist Brian Isett ponders the age-old question his young daughter will inevitably ask — Where did the Moon come from? — and ...
The Heart of Requiem – A Conversation with Susan Murphy Roshi, Terry Tempest Williams, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Sharing a depth of attention for what stands to be lost in our relationship with the seasons, Volume 6 contributors Terry Tempest Williams and Susan M...
Learning to Listen to Plants – A Conversation with Monica Gagliano
How might our understanding of plants transform if it embraced the voices of plants themselves? In this conversation, research scientist Monica Gaglia...