Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/category/inner-life/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:30:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 Never the Same River Twice https://orionmagazine.org/article/never-the-same-river-twice/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/never-the-same-river-twice/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:00:31 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=240763 IT’S A BRILLIANT MORNING IN LATE NOVEMBER, the radiant season in Japan, when the skies are cloudless, knife-sharp, even as we feel the coming dark. A perfect day for a temple ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/never-the-same-river-twice/feed/ 3 240763 For as Many Days as We Have Left https://orionmagazine.org/article/for-as-many-days-as-we-have-left/ Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:45:41 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=239927 This essay is included in Earthly Love: Stories of Intimacy and Devotion from Orion Magazine. ...

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]]> 239927 On Thick Time, Talking Trees, and the Psychological Defense against our Fundamental Interdependency https://orionmagazine.org/article/on-thick-time-talking-trees-and-the-psychological-defense-against-our-fundamental-interdependency/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:30:02 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=240083 A conversation. ...

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]]> 240083 Wild Embodiment https://orionmagazine.org/article/wild-embodiment/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/wild-embodiment/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:55:08 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236908 Out here in the wild, I feel human beyond identity. I experience being in community without judgment, embraced by all the rooted, furred, feathered beings around me. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/wild-embodiment/feed/ 18 236908 Retriever of Souls https://orionmagazine.org/article/retriever-of-souls/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/retriever-of-souls/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:50:07 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236696 A child and her dog navigate the forest of epilepsy. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/retriever-of-souls/feed/ 36 236696 True Colors https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:51:32 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236910 A slight shift in sunlight brings blooms of viridian and teal, sparkling with rills of jade, peridot, and radiant gold, always there but rarely visible. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/true-colors/feed/ 2 236910 The Long View https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:15:11 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236691 Autoimmunity and an ecosystem caught in chaos. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-long-view/feed/ 5 236691 Adaptive Joy https://orionmagazine.org/article/adaptive-joy/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/adaptive-joy/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:04:02 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236907 Grief lives in the body; crip grief lives in the crip body. And I am working out my crip grief by moving in a crip way on this land, on this trike. ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/adaptive-joy/feed/ 3 236907 A Drinkable Beauty https://orionmagazine.org/article/a-drinkable-beauty/ https://orionmagazine.org/article/a-drinkable-beauty/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:57:22 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236697 MY HOMETOWN of Bellingham, Washington, is a last corner of the continental United States, a final chew of land before the long drink of the Pacific. We’re bound to the west by ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/article/a-drinkable-beauty/feed/ 2 236697 Animate Earth https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-animate-earth/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:55:32 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=236694 A multimedia, cross-country journey of Dream Puppet, the poetic knowledges of ancient forests and disabled communities. ...

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