An Irritable Métis | Chris La Tray

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A newsletter about teaching, tribal education work, adventure, and community/solitude from the 2014 Montana Teacher of the Year.

Anna is smart and doing work that is as important as anything.

- Chris La Tray

Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher

By Marina Richie

Excerpts from my 2022 book threading natural history, memoir, and myth

On the Commons

By Antonia Malchik

A newsletter about ownership, property, and what we lose in the privatization of the commons.

Life in the Real World

By Karen Davis

Reflections on nature and life

How To Cure A Ghost

By Fariha Róisín

An exploration of all the ghosts that haunt me. I’m working through it as an act of healing.

Bigfoot's Lover

By Natalie Storey

sultry stories to undermine the man vs nature dichotomy

Harlem Mama

By Francia McCormack

Writing, painting and photography memoir reflecting on inspiration and consciousness.

Francia is wonderful with a gigantic heart. I am eager to see what she grows here.

- Chris La Tray

The Border Chronicle

Original Reporting and Analysis From the U.S.-Mexico Border

What Pluckery Is This?

By Thomas Pluck

Writing, Explorations, and Adventures by Thomas Pluck

The Art of Exploration

By Laura K

A newsletter about natural history, nature journaling, and spending time outside that invites you to explore wild places with kindness, curiosity, and wonder by Laura K @artofexplora

homeculture

By Meg Conley

kitchen table philosophy

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Elizabeth Aquino

This is a place where poetry, politics, caregiving, disability and the ocean intersect with the body. That body is mine and yours.

Silentium

By Andō

Quiet moments of silence and stillness. Meditation, contemplation, and silent prayer.

Trackless Wild

By Janisse Ray

Leveraging the power of story to change the world one heart, mind & soul at a time.

Aambe: where books collide

By patty krawec

a place where books and ideas rush towards each other and I examine the particles their collision leaves behind.

The Truth Does Not Change According to Our Ability to Stomach It

By Leah Sottile

Journalism + Stray Thoughts from Leah Sottile

WanderFinder

By Hannah

Nature & misadventure. Join me here or on Twitter @HannahFinally. Views are my own.

Sweet Recovery

By Courtney Perkins

Mindful thoughts on reconnecting with self

On the Oxbow

By Eleanore Taft

Fighting for love and beauty in a crumbling world

Nora is a kind, thoughtful and generous person with a huge heart and also happens to be a wonderful writer.

- Chris La Tray

The Liminality Journal

By Kaitlin Curtice

thoughts on the in-between

Under a Spell

By Kara Norman

I write about creativity, sanity, and wisdom traditions. I also write about books, music, pop culture, and owning too many geese figurines. Come for the kale, stay for the coffee cake.

GODDAMN BUFFALO

By JHFarr

PERSONAL ESSAYS AND VISIONS from 7,000 feet in northern New Mexico. Many photos. Share the beauty and the joy, she said. Never argue with an angel.

CRAFT TALK

By Craft Talk

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2023 it begins 6/17!)

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Following the threads of hidden histories in writing, art, and place.

Ordinary Collisions: Intersections of Nature & Culture

By Heidi Barr

Exploring sustainable ways of being for people, communities, and the planet

The Ministry of Imagination

By Jeremy Beaudry

Reflections on art, poetry, nature, and community from the inside out.

Field Notes

By Kelly Schirmann

An infrequent journal of thoughts and starts.

Berkana

By Swarnali Mukherjee

Built with a soft burning passion for obscure places, people, folklores, and cultural epiphanies

God is My Special Interest

By D.L. Mayfield

The intersection of late-diagnosed neurodivergence and high control religion

olurinatti

By Olayemi Olurin

Olayemi Olurin's essays exploring the issues facing us today

The Poet's Dreamingbody

By Frank Inzan Owen

a dreaming-while-awake journey exploring the path of Wayfaring

No Thank You

By Cayly Marisa

unlearning the shit that doesn't serve us

Hotcakes

By Katrin Tschirgi

Writing, the West, & Other Musings

blue world

By Matt Asaro

letters to the world we could be

The White Pages

By Garrett

Building a better world is hard. Community helps.

CMOON

By Cristina Moon

Finding spiritual strength and the ability to stay calm amidst chaos with Zen priest Cristina Moon.

Resurrected Roots

By Anastasia McRae

Words, images, and musings on creative healing from and to all my relations, past, present, future

Not the Fun Kind

By Moira Donegan

feminism for the end of the world

Recovering

By Holly Whitaker

casual musings on life through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone // a weekly newsletter with 10 curated resources delivered every Tuesday