Dr. Achina Stein, owner of Functional Mind, Providence. A note from the editor There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has become almost universal: the exhaustion of a body that has been tested, medicated, referred, retested, and is still not well. It is the exhaustion not just of symptoms, but of not being believed or listened to. Of being handed a prescription for something that treats the surface while the deeper question goes unasked. Functional medicine begins with

Time at work. Jasper Hill Farm's aging cellars, Greensboro, Vermont. Mateo Kehler and the Primordial Memory of Cheese The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks has been embraced as a much needed remedy to America's biggest ailment: loss of community, meaning, and a devastatingly alarming rise of anxiety and depression amongst our youth — in numbers never seen before. This book, along with Plays Well with Others by Eric Barker, is only a fraction of a plethora of dialogue h

Having lived outside the Boston area for more than fifteen years hasn't come without a sharp adjustment to the fast, efficient, and sometimes frenetic rhythm of life. Coming from a laid-back Mediterranean culture — where arriving fifteen minutes late to a dinner party planned impromptu that same afternoon is actually showing up early and finding your host still at the stove, where birthday parties have no end time and a coffee meet-up lasts two hours by default — the Northeas

Nikolai Blinow of Ompowerment, whose work centers on burnout prevention and recovery, trauma processing (including EMDR and DBT), and executive and entrepreneur coaching, speaks of a particular kind of exhaustion—the one of high-achieving women that can’t seem to slow down . If you’re a woman in leadership who feels driven to keep going—despite feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or stretched thin—you’re not imagining it. Many women who are outwardly successful and deeply capable

The work is hard Your fingers may bleed. But each cloth stitched together Brings together a community. A world, our future world Under one colorful quilt. The new quilt of humanity. ~Julia Myers Come, see the story of a beautiful garment If you would hold the end of one of Animana's contemporary woven shawls and unravel it, its long, ancient path would lead you down south, away from North America, through Central Americas, until the yarn would reach the interior of Argen

Picture this: rabbit-skin glue simmering in a Massachusetts studio, its Renaissance-era scent mingling with gold leaf and hot solder, as Brian Lies builds a 14th-century Italian portrait ground for a single spread in Cat Nap. What begins as a kitten's cozy nap on a couch spirals into a dream-chase leaping across centuries—Egyptian reliefs in plaster, illuminated manuscripts on goatskin parchment, vivid stained-glass panels—all handcrafted by Lies in their historic techniques.

Oereishi Aeoma is a poet, storyteller, and performer whose work explores the meeting point of intuition, creativity, and community. Rejecting rigid labels, he approaches art as a living practice—one rooted in presence, emotion, and the courage of honest expression. In a region often known for its reserve, Aeoma has quietly gathered an attentive audience across New England through live readings and storytelling performances. "I can feel when something shifts in the room," he

Elin Johansonn at The Living Room Collective. Photo credit Mark Amudson On Loss, Hands, and the Return of Community Some creations begin with inspiration.Others begin with absence. During the pandemic, many of the quiet structures that once held women together—pregnancy groups, craft circles, spaces of shared learning—simply vanished. Not dramatically, but quietly. They were there one moment, and gone the next. For Elin, who had recently moved to Barrington and was expectin

On Origins and Awareness There are moments when politics stops feeling like a civic exercise and begins to resemble something colder—more mechanical, less human. The machinery continues to move, yet the warmth seems to have drained from the room. John Houle noticed that change from inside the machine. Long before he became a novelist, he worked campaigns across Rhode Island’s political landscape: council races, mayoral contests, statewide ambitions. He learned the rhythms of

Teloneio, Kardamilli, Greece. Fully restored with local materials and using building techniques long lost in the centuries. Photo: Julia Klimi We almost went to New York. Snow intervened — as snow does — and instead of sitting inside a lecture hall at New York Tech School of Architecture & Design, we listened from home as architect Eleni Tsigarida from ETSI Architects spoke about failing thrust lines, invisible cracks, and why demolition is never neutral. When Notre Dame burn