That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
The holiday season is filled with traditions, our homes filled with family and friends. This season looks different. Danielle Beazer...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
It’s an understatement to say that 2020 has not gone according to plan, for any of us. In today’s That Thing With Feathers, Torrey House...
A Story of Water
I lingered in my mother’s womb a week longer than I was supposed to, according to the medical professionals. In my culture, we frown...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
We followed Eli J. Knapp from a leaky dugout canoe in Tanzania to a juniper titmouse’s perch at the Grand Canyon in The Delightful Horror...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
In his forthcoming book Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis (May 2021, Torrey House Press),...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
Scott Graham transports readers to national parks around the West in his National Park Mystery Series. Today, he reflects upon leadership...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed...
Whittling Wood
It was during the first weeks of the COVID-19 crisis that I started whittling wood. I kept it simple—walking sticks. I loved walking; and...
That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
Humor is a powerful weapon. The more you can inject humor into otherwise serious topics, the easier they are to digest and, thus, understand
That Thing With Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Upheaval
A little bit of work, even ridiculous work, makes the flighty thing of hope as weighty as a bird.