A state-of-the-art migratory atlas of North American birds—the first resource of its kindMore than 70 percent of North American bird species are migratory, traveling annually between separate breeding and nonbreeding areas. While we know the overall ranges of species, we have lacked an understanding of where specific populations move to across seasons and regions—but these limitations are rapidly disappearing. Thanks to the contributions of thousands of bird bander...

"No. 7"—as Carpenter, the youngest of seven children, called himself—was born in Missouri in 1854 and moved west with his family, first to Kansas, then to the settlements near Pikes Peak, and finally, in 1872, to Texas with his elder brother. From the time he made his first cattle drive, he wanted no other life but that of herding longhorns across the free and flat grasslands of the West. His schooling was the trail, the campfire, the saddle. In 1900, after a full and active life, he retired ...

An epic poem by Tom Will. Based on Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, a man dies and is resurrected over a weekend in 999 heroic couplets, couplets which have retained all of the end rhymes of the original poem. Through a snow-encrusted town, a snow-encrusted townie walks through Dante's heaven and silent film's hells.

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Diana Badger discusses Astrology, Archetypes and Ecology. Diana Badger is a counseling astrologer, writer/editor, gardener, Sufi practitioner, dream work facilitator, and photographer. In this conversation, she explores astrology as a living relationship between ecology, myth, and archetype—where heavenly wisdom is brought down to earth. She works within an ancient system that views astrology not as prediction but participation. Drawing on a...

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Diana Badger discusses Astrology, Archetypes and Ecology. Diana Badger is a counseling astrologer, writer/editor, gardener, Sufi practitioner, dream work facilitator, and photographer. In this conversation, she explores astrology as a living relationship between ecology, myth, and archetype—where heavenly wisdom is brought down to earth. She works within an ancient system that views astrology not as prediction but participation. Drawing on a...

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Diana Badger discusses Astrology, Archetypes and Ecology. Diana Badger is a counseling astrologer, writer/editor, gardener, Sufi practitioner, dream work facilitator, and photographer. In this conversation, she explores astrology as a living relationship between ecology, myth, and archetype—where heavenly wisdom is brought down to earth. She works within an ancient system that views astrology not as prediction but participation. Drawing on a...

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Diana Badger discusses Astrology, Archetypes and Ecology. Diana Badger is a counseling astrologer, writer/editor, gardener, Sufi practitioner, dream work facilitator, and photographer. In this conversation, she explores astrology as a living relationship between ecology, myth, and archetype—where heavenly wisdom is brought down to earth. She works within an ancient system that views astrology not as prediction but participation. Drawing on a...

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Diana Badger discusses Astrology, Archetypes and Ecology. Diana Badger is a counseling astrologer, writer/editor, gardener, Sufi practitioner, dream work facilitator, and photographer. In this conversation, she explores astrology as a living relationship between ecology, myth, and archetype—where heavenly wisdom is brought down to earth. She works within an ancient system that views astrology not as prediction but participation. Drawing on a...

In this 2026 interview with Justine Willis Toms, Artist and iconographer Angela Manno, creator of the Sacred Biodiversity Oracle, offers a profound invitation into this awareness through a deck of 36 cards portraying animals and plants from around the world. Her luminous paintings shimmer with quiet, radical devotion to the living Earth, encouraging us to encounter other beings and ecosystems as sacred presences rather than distant “resources.”Environmental leader Bill McK...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, futurist Duane Elgin argues that humanity is straddling unprecedented, threshold times, and that this situational crisis involves more than just climate change: it’s a whole systemic change. Yet, despite the extreme nature of our situation, we’re also living in a moment of immense possibility in a sea of a living universe within a domain of aliveness, where new kinds of potentials are going to emerge. He writes "Even though it is diff...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, venture-capitalist and video-game pioneer Rizwan Virk asks whether we are living in a material universe or a simulated one. Are we living in a massive, multiplayer, online, role-playing game where our deeds and quests are being kept track of in the “cloud?” Is an angel recording our lives? If so, who is running the game? Why, if it is a video game, why don’t we choose bliss? And what is the connection between computer science, video game ...

In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, Vasavi Kumar points out that how we talk to ourselves sets the tone for every experience in our life: our voice is a powerful guide in releasing emotions, traumas, and difficult memories, and can be dramatically effective in transforming our lives in meaningful ways. As we start speaking to ourselves out loud with kindness and curiosity, our body will loosen up and speak back to us.Kumar is a first generation Indian American, a li...