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The best reason to subscribe is to enter a practice that seeks wilderness and art as an antidote to the administrative, task-oriented nature of contemporary society. The second best reason is to subvert, with your support, that society that is starving art or any kind of deep reflection out of existence by making “artist” an untenable vocation. It doesn’t have to be me, though. Support with your funds or your attention and sharing, whichever artist’s work resonates. Art is wilderness and wilderness is dying. Both need our whole-hearted response.

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The practice of near wilderness seeks you in the ways you receive information so that, under the layers of life’s way-too-tame and numbing to-do lists, you don’t forget to take a moment to be called out to something larger, to the great expedition happening inside your own soul and outside your own front door.

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Healing the world starts with a return to the beautiful and near wild. If you believe this, subscribing allows you to connect with others who also hear that call. Since we, as humans, can get discouraged and disillusioned on our own, it helps to have a reminder from others on your lowest days, to bring you back, gently, onto the path of the great expedition, your own journey with the land and the pulse of life itself.

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Deborah Potter is an explorer of the near wild and lover of backyard owls. She is mother to five children and six pets, wife to one husband, and occasional preacher to twenty quirky Christians in rural, Northwest Florida.