Saturday, March 28, 2020

read read read

This is the time to catch up on all our reading. Not just the news or COVID19 updates. Or all the online feeds spilling over into our lives for those of us who have the luxury of being stuck at home.

wonder | wander | world gives a special shout out for author, activist and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams.


Writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, she is the author of numerous books. Here is a sampling of our top picks for this week.

The environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place interweaving narratives of dying and accommodation that transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace.

Finding Beauty In A Broken World is a compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, affirming a reverence for all life, and constructing a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.


When Women Were Birds is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice?

The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks and an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them.

Friday, March 20, 2020

William Blake - artist of apocalypse

William Blake was a classic poet, a print artist of incredible technique, a painter of endless imagination, and a visionary beyond his time. Earlier this year Tate Britain exhibited a massive collection of his prolific work and we couldn't wait to feature it here on wonder | wander | world.

Detail of The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, c. 1803-5

Friday, March 13, 2020

love in the time of corona

remember that the root word for religion is re-linking
when we speak in the language of longing
we re-enter the mystery 
~ Oak Chezar © Mother Tongue Ink 2019


All shaken to the core in the wake of COVID19 aka this 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic? Unfolding so malevolently. Spreading all too easily. All overwhelmed and in shock?

Faced with taking full stock of our daily reality it is clear how easily we rely on our habitual comforts and conveniences. This crisis has forced us to question all that we believe we were secure in.

Friday, March 6, 2020

vodka vibes

wonder | wander | world warning of the week:


Unless your vodka is 60% to 70% proof it is not enough to kill deadly germs. If it is 70% in alcohol content then drink it and wash your hands instead. 

The World Health Organization did publish an official guide on how to make hand sanitizer. Intended for populations that do not have clean water or medical-grade products in place, CNN reports. 

https://www.wtnh.com/news/health/coronavirus/titos-vodka-cannot-be-used-to-make-hand-sanitizer-company-says/