You Say You Want a Revolution
DECADES AGO, I WAS A reasonable person and I thought reasonable thoughts. One of them was that deep change—change that I could even then see was necessary—would grow from actions responding Continue reading
Author Archives: Kim Schmidt
The Houseplant Black Market
IN THE EARLY MONTHS OF the COVID-19 pandemic, at any given hour, you might have found me hunched over and gently tending to a new houseplant as I sheltered in place. Continue reading
Students of Fire
Like so many of who are learning to live with wildfire smoke traveling across state and national borders, or who have loved ones living in fire-prone areas, I have learned a Continue reading
Scott Russell Sanders Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Scott Russell Sanders is a Guggenheim Fellow, member of the American Academy of Arts and Continue reading
An Epic, Folkloric Year
KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH’S LATEST BOOK, Cacophony of Bone, documents her time in a remote cottage in the middle of Ireland over the course of a year, from winter solstice 2019 to Continue reading