The Twentieth Bear
by Yelizaveta P. Renfro
In the long, distorting hindsight with which we hold onto and apprehend most of the events of our lives, the bear will become story.
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Into Los Angeles
by Nick Neely
In 2016, Nick Neely walked for 12 weeks from San Diego to San Francisco to retrace the first overland Spanish expedition into what’s now the s... Read More...
A Life of Science:
Science, Snakes, and Duct Tape
by Brian Blais
A Series by New Scientists
We met at eight in the morning at a dirt parking lot just inside the national forest entrance. It was ear... Read More...
Finding Atlantis
by Beth Peterson
39.7024° N, 44.2991° E
Mount Ararat, Turkey
When I was still a child, the first story I heard about a flood was the tale of Noah’s ark. Th... Read More...
The Influence of Art at Yosemite
by James McGrew
Works of art have played an integral role in the history of Yosemite as a national park, delighting the visitors who encounter them and inspir... Read More...
Eleven Paths to Animal Music
by David Rothenberg
We cannot ask other species to explain themselves, since it is not language we share with the birds. It is music.
Every time I come ... Read More...
The Garden
by Abby Dockter
“Disaster,” writes Henry Mitchell, “is the normal state of any garden.”
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In the Village
by Suzannah Lessard
Landscape is what arises from the hand of work as we make our living on the planet and our relation to one another as we do so.
The ... Read More...
The Reaper of the Sea
by Naila Moreira
We have to learn from the dead to help the living.
The dead seal lies on the table. The bulk of it unignorable: the heavy torpedo-sha... Read More...
What Must Be Accounted For
by Gail Hosking
Someone, broom in hand
still remembers how it was.
Someone else listens, nodding
his unshattered head.
– Wizlawa Szymborska, ... Read More...
Making Landfall
by Paul Lindholdt
On the idea of “making landfall”—while riding out one hell of a storm on the Mayan Apocalypse in Belize’s Turneffe Atoll.
There we w... Read More...
Saltworks
by Cherene Sherrard
Donkey Hour
In the sloe-gray water of the Salinas on Grand Turk, the foundations of windmills stand in ruins. Blink. You’ll miss the ghostly ... Read More...
