An Irritable Métis | Chris La Tray

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Hello from the woods. I am obsessed with time, narrative, queer culture, and wild things. Let me show you some polaroids and animal tracks.

EastKeep

By Anna E

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

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A newsletter and community dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. For the creative energy that resides in all of us.

Second Breakfast

By Elizabeth Black

A newsletter on becoming more curious, compassionate, contemplative, and creative.

Elizabeth is a wonderful writer and thoughtful human and you should follow her.

- Chris La Tray

Organized Chaos

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Hotcakes

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Writing, the West, & Other Musings

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 Emerald Lens

By Emerald LaFortune

A monthly newsletter from Emerald LaFortune, an outdoor writer, project manager and former whitewater and fly fishing guide.

Resurrected Roots

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Words, images, and musings on creative healing from and to all my relations throughout space and time

THE POET'S DREAMINGBODY

By Frank Inzan Owen

an exploration of Wayfaring, ancient and modern

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

No Thank You

By Cayly Marisa

i'd rather not

Ordinary Collisions: Intersections of Nature & Culture

By Heidi Barr

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

JENOVIA'S WEB

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The Agony & Ecstasy Of The Human Experience.

homeculture is becoming the pocket observatory

By Meg Conley

Collecting light from the seen and unseen.

Healing is My Special Interest

By D.L. Mayfield

The intersection of late-diagnosed neurodivergence and healing from high-control environments. Also, combatting Christian fascism!

Unsupervised

By Anna Fusco

Just a girl in clogs with a blog, publicly learning to love myself. Radical self-sharer, romance themes abound. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, and self-fulfillment. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Thoughtful, beautiful, and creative stuff going on here....

- Chris La Tray

What Pluckery Is This?

By Thomas Pluck

A deep dive every Sunday, often into a place I've explored, and a multitude of short subjects on Wednesday. Forays into the NJ Pine Barrens, forgotten historical sites, interesting places around the world, and short stories.

The Ministry of Imagination

By Jeremy Beaudry

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

Trackless Wild

By Janisse Ray

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

Berkana

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

The Border Chronicle

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

Monday Monday

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A weekly newsletter to fuel your devotion, cultivate your creative attention, and offer advice on your most vulnerable questions

Recovering

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The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

Third Thing

By Anson

Sitting next to each other (metaphorically), looking at a third thing

WanderFinder

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

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

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Journalism + Essays + Thoughts on Writing from Leah Sottile

sara by the season

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a little bit of everything, but seasonal of course

Field Notes

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An infrequent journal of thoughts and starts.

On the Commons

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

Elizabeth Aquino

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

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

The Liminality Journal

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thoughts on the in-between

The White Pages

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Writing about Whiteness. Writing about organizing and social change. Writing (occasionally) about the shirt Ronnie Van Zant wore on the Street Survivors album cover.

CMOON

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

Silentium

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Quiet moments of silence and stillness. A journal and occasional podcast on themes of silence, meditation, contemplation, and silent prayer.

Men Yell at Me

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Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

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Think more about the culture that surrounds you

Tiny Revolutions

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A monthly dispatch of candid writing and links about becoming who you are. Always: inspiration, encouragement, possibility. Never: bullshit.