

The Stars Move Still
I’m talking about sweet, swift, slow, adazzle, dim mortality...


In the Dooryard
She could dwell on we, and that was something. We who live in this house. We the pheasants and the owls...


The Finch in the Cholla
Most of us write in order to change something. An opinion. A heart. A mistaken view of the world. We hope, big time...


Coming or Going
Has your perception of time changed due to stay-at-home orders and pandemic-filled thoughts? In today’s That Thing with Feathers, THP...


Running the Movie Backward
As communities grapple with how to function in a time of pandemic, so many decisions feel fraught and weighted. How do we move forward?...


Coyote Time
What animals are helping you through the pandemic? Family pets and backyard birds are helping lots of folks manage the stressors of this...


Withdrawal
Kathryn Wilder writes from a remote corner of southwest Colorado where her home abuts public land, including a wild horse management...


That Thing with Feathers: Hope and Literature in a Time of Pandemic
In 2014, Torrey House published The Story of My Heart by Richard Jefferies, as rediscovered by Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams. In it,...


“Do you feel like a local here?”
People around the world are asked—or ordered—to stay home. But where is home? Where you are now? Where you’re told to go? Where you feel...


Quarantine Ecology
In his forthcoming book, Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape , writer and...