In this issue:

And Today: featuring Architecture for Humanity (“design like you give a damn”), Denman Island Chocolate (“Canada’s organic chocolate company”), and Barefoot College (“a place of learning and unlearning”).

Kinbrace House, by Giselle Culver
In Vancouver, British Columbia, a small apartment building shelters refugees:”The people who gather for this meal bring stories of danger, fear, loss, hardship and survival from all over the world: Mexico, Romania, Israel, Russia, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

Dedications, by Adrienne Rich
“I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office…”

Past Life: Sir George, by Mary Jo Leddy
“He seemed rather tall, even patrician, when he first arrived with his arms flung over the shoulders of his two friends…”

In Conversation: with Nelofer Pazira, by Matthew Francis
“I no longer want to fight with guns. I want to educate myself and to fight with words…”

Film Journey: Los Angeles Plays Itself, by Doug Cummings
“Having lived in Los Angeles for several years, I can attest to the rich culture(s) that lie just beneath the surface of the ‘entertainment capital of the world’...”

Adventure: Diary of a Wilderness Dweller, by Chris Czajkowski
“It is two days since I left my truck at the end of a logging road twenty miles east of here. I have hiked through unmarked forest and over a mountain, through country I have never seen before, to reach a point of land jutting into an un-named lake, five thousand feet high in the Coast Range of British Columbia…”

Be The River, by Maureen Scott Harris
“Be the river then, straight or crooked…”

In Conversation: with K’Naan, the Dusty Foot Philosopher, by Karen Neudorf
“He’s from Somalia. He came to North America at age thirteen on the last available commercial airplane as the country dissolved into chaos…”

And more!

Artwork by Chris Jordan, Karin Bubas, Adrian Fish, Sebastiao Salgado, Stefanie Augustine, and Elise Engler.