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...

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.

"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 ...

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 2025 conversation with Justine Willis Time, Glenn Aparicio Parry reminds us of the subtle, ancient longing of the soul calling for reunion and wholeness, and that love exists beyond the veils of time and dances outside the confines of space. He unveils the secret: Western time moves like an arrow, whereas Indigenous wisdom traces a circle, an eternal spiral where every place is holy ground and every moment pulses with presence. Parryis an educator, an ecopsychologist, and an author...

In this 2023 interview with Justine Willis Toms, psychotherapist Jake Eagle and physician Michael Amster explore the emotion of awe and how we can receive its powerful benefits in our everyday life. They tell us awe gives us a break from processing and judging unwanted events, and gives us the capacity to see through them. We can access the larger picture without traveling to the Grand Canyon or overlooking Niagara Falls; it’s available to us in our everyday life and we can tap into it wit...

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, New York Times contributor Margaret Renkl suggests that we make an “untidy” garden that will nurture our soul and the natural world. She encourages us to fall in love with the natural companions in our lives: the spiders, the hummingbirds, crickets, and raccoons, and all the other species who are living right beside us. When we fall in love with them, we can't help but want to save them. Renkl suggests stepping out of our small world of c...