(Still) Radically Authentic

(Still) Radically Authentic

[Trigger Warning: Suicide & Mental Health]  Howdy, folks.  So, for the last year, I’ve been pretty quiet—not just on social media but within my friend/professional circles; the silence wasn’t indicative of lack of care. I just had one of those years—a string of...
Going Home | Wild Silence Travel Column

Going Home | Wild Silence Travel Column

Going Home Again by L.M. Browning, appeared in The Wayfarer Magazine autumn 2019 edition as part of the Wild Silence Travel Column | The Full Issue>> “What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the...
At Home in the Mountains | A Journal Entry

At Home in the Mountains | A Journal Entry

at Home in the mountains. “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”  ― John Muir 6,000+ Miles Travel. 2,000+ Miles Driven. 12 Days. 7 National Parks. 3 State Parks . . .  I’ve roamed...
The Road Turns West | A Journal Entry

The Road Turns West | A Journal Entry

by L.M. Browning  “Sit with the silence. There is something there waiting for you.” —Journal Entry, May 2019   Virginia Woolf believed that life was composed of one or two days that change everything―pivotal days that ripple out to effect all the days...
Go West, Young Woman | A Journal Entry

Go West, Young Woman | A Journal Entry

“There are things I know—certainties I can always return to— like the knowledge that beauty assuages grief and silence soothes a pressured mind.” —Journal Entry, March 2019     A Return to the Lands of Grief Following my adventures over recent...
The Dirge | A Poem

The Dirge | A Poem

by L.M. Browning, from the forthcoming collection, Drive Through the Night     Dancing with the dust devils across the land of dazzling desolation I seize freedom by unearthing the beauty in the vanishing nature of all that is vital.   Knowing that I...