Samara Journal -

This season, we are thinking about that specific kind of courage: the slow spiral away from the familiar. We are taught to hold on—to jobs, to identities, to a version of ourselves we wrote in pencil years ago. But what if our purpose is not to grip, but to disperse ?

A samara does not fall straight down. It autorotates. It hesitates. It spins away from the trunk that made it, not in defeat, but in design. samara journal

With dirt under the fingernails, Featured Essay (Opening Paragraph) Title: The Cartography of Fallen Leaves By: Elena Voss This season, we are thinking about that specific

Since "Samara" has multiple meanings (a winged seed from a tree, a city in Russia, or a name meaning "protected by God"), I have focused on the most poetic and common literary interpretation: A samara does not fall straight down