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May this journal be your soft landing—or your launching pad.

In this issue, we wander through orchards in late autumn, we interview a woman who uprooted her life to plant a food forest, and we learn why the things that look like they are falling are often just finding the right air current. samara journal

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. May this journal be your soft landing—or your

The maple seed lands on the windowsill of a stranger. It has no passport, no plan. Just a wing and a weight. It autorotates

With dirt under the fingernails, Featured Essay (Opening Paragraph) Title: The Cartography of Fallen Leaves By: Elena Voss

I found one last Tuesday, lodged between the keys of my piano. It had flown three blocks, over a parking lot and a dog park, to die on middle C. I almost threw it away. Instead, I taped it to the wall above my desk.

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: