That line came to me as I sat in a bookstore cafe yesterday. And have I told you lately how much I love Orion magazine?
If you're not yet familiar with it, O my girlchiks, you are in for a mad treat. The subtitle below the masthead says, "Nature/Culture/Place". It's published by the non-profit Orion Society.
The photos alone are worth the $7 no-advertising-whatsoever price. You can also subscribe digitally actually gaining more photo galleries, lowering carbon footprint, etc. And scattered throughout its pages are wonderful poems. Four in the current issue alone. There is most always some fiction and there are many wonderful articles by a who's who of nature/culture/place writers like Terry Tempest Williams, Rick Bass, Annick Smith, Gary Snyder, Gary Paul Nabhan, Bill McKibben, and others much less well known and worthy of knowing better.
Make room on the bookshelf, though. For it's really, really hard to part with any of the print copies of the mag. The photos are that luscious and the layout is clean and spare. It's a refuge for soul and eyes.
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