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Francia

A 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

Recovering

By Holly Whitaker

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

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

By Leah Sottile

Journalism + Essays + Thoughts on Writing from Leah Sottile

Silentium

By Andō

Notes from the edge of silence. Explorations of the inner landscape, through silence, stillness, meditation, contemplation, and prayer.

Elizabeth Aquino

Where parenting, politics, disability and caregiving intersect

SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB

By Social Media Escape Club

Break up 💔 with social media

Trackless Wild with Janisse Ray

This is the place where the story gets wild.

Julia LaTray Studio/Uncle J’s Got Something to Say

Art, music, design, the outdoors, the indoors, little buttrat dogs

Ordinary Collisions: Intersections of Nature & Culture

By Heidi Barr

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

Resurrected Roots

By Anastasia McRae

Words, images (musings) in the process/ of remembering/ for/to/from all my relations throughout space and time.

The Border Chronicle

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

Human Stuff

By Lisa Olivera

A newsletter that explores the spiral of aliveness: the aches, the joys, and the liminal, from a therapist/writer/human. When the Ache Remains is out 4/28/26.

Letters From the Desert

By Letters From The Desert

Natural history, environmental issues, and other ruminations from the Mojave Desert by Chris Clarke

Berkana

By Swarnali Mukherjee

Built with a soft burning passion for obscure places, people, folklores, and the unseen threads that bind our personal and collective stories

Natural Stories

By John Clayton

Nature is story; stories are our nature

A Woman's Place is in the Wild

By Karen Auvinen

Weekly Meditations on the Wild Places that hold us and the Hope found in Living Deeply with the Natural World. Adventuring not out, but IN.

Tiny Revolutions

By Sara Campbell

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

A Natural History

By Caroline Joan Peixoto

Wayfarer Magazine

Since 2011, Wayfarer Magazine has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire our readers and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.

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.

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 patience, curiosity, and wonder by Laura K @artofexplora

Unsupervised

By Sky Fusco

Wild at heart, weird on top, and publicly learning to love myself. These letters make frequent stops at personal histories, relationships, communal living, addiction, making art, & navigating the digital Anthropocene. It ain't much but it's honest work.

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

- Chris La Tray

The Ariadne Archive

By Freya Rohn

Finding the threads that lead out of the labyrinth.

Dear Somebody

By Meera Lee Patel

A short weekly note chronicling five things worth remembering, including a look into my process, reflections on motherhood, and creative inspiration.

The Liminality Journal

By Kaitlin Curtice

thoughts on the in-between

Loam

As the publishing branch of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, Loam tells stories at the confluence of environmental, social and personal systems change.

Unseasoned: Career support for outdoorsy professionals

By Emerald LaFortune

One actionable career tip + 10+ fresh job leads — straight to your inbox every other week.

CMOON

By Cristina Moon

Finding spiritual strength and the ability to stay calm amid chaos. Dispatches from Cristina Moon, a social change strategist and Zen priest in Hawaiʻi.

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A weekly newsletter dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. Home of 24 Days of Making, Doing, and Being digital Advent calendar.

JENOVIA'S WEB

By Jenovia

The agony and ecstasy.

Laura Paskus

Writing about rivers, climate change, community, & the more-than-human world from New Mexico.

Organized Chaos

By Emilie Apel

Healing humanity and coming home to the Earth one poem, painting, garden, and body at a time.

Red Scare

By Nick Estes

American Indian anti-imperialism

Fox at Timber Creek

By Timber Fox

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, and interesting places around the world.

The White Pages

By Garrett

What if we could build something better?

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

The Land Desk

By Jonathan P. Thompson

Western lands and communities--in context.

Field Notes

By Kelly Schirmann

Infrequent sketches of life from the field; a working artist's travel diary; pieced essays of current fixations.

The Ministry of Imagination

By Jeremy Beaudry

Reflections on community, culture, and nature from central Vermont.

Wild Words

By Morgan Sjogren

Writing about Western lands and water––past, present, future––from the heart of the desert. 🤎

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

Anna Paige, of Pen & Paige

By Anna Paige's newsletter

Anna Paige is an arts and culture writer based in North Dakota, Ucross Fellow and a 2023 Dofe House artist-in-residence. She is co-founder of Young Poets, awarded by Library of Congress for promoting literacy.

Anna is a beautiful person and I hope you read her.

- Chris La Tray

Cedar, Oak, and Elder with S. L. MacAindriú

By S.L. MacAindriú

Overhaul in Progress. From the soil to the stars all species shall be free.

Truth & Dare: Writing and Artistic Gesture in the World

By Laura Moulton

Truth & Dare offers one truth (a writing prompt) and one dare (an artistic action) each month, as well as observations about how to stay steady in unsteady times