For @orionmagazine.bsky.social 'Like an orchard in full bloom, nurturing stories requires care and connection, too. The people we love who are no longer alive—Stacey, Janna, Jonathan, Shizuko—are still with us, and our stories about them are seeds planted with gentleness and hope for the future.'
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"There is no single way to grieve / the world..."
from 'After Szymborska' by Justin Bigos, in Orion's Winter 2025/2026 issue.
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When you stop to smell the roses, have you ever wondered why they smell so good to you? What mechanisms in our biology make us want to get a whiff? David George Haskell breaks down the science of smell in this celebration of springtime delights.
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"There is a certain kind of fierce friendship between young women who pledge themselves to each other absolutely, for which the rest of life is a kind of complicated aftermath."
Leslie Jamison on friendship.
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Denali Sai Nalamalapu's graphic memoir of rural resistance is an open and honest look at what it takes to fight uphill battles—and why they're worth it. Here's a peek.
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"How shall we open to the America we find ourselves in, so various and vibrant, so riven? How shall we do more than merely requite its loneliness?"
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Spring is here, and with it, flowers and their aromas. David George Haskell guides us along our evolutionary connection to flowers and why we love them in our perfumes, diffusers, and gardens. orionmagazine.org/article/an-a...
