Letter from the Editor
March 10, 2025
Text by Nina Vichayapai, Lou Blumberg, Clara Harlow
Imagination, dreaming, creating new worlds–what’s possible when we are open to new ways of being? What happens when we make the thing that doesn’t exist, because we think the world would be better with that thing in it?
Many of our interviews this term talk about the worlds we’d rather be in. Worlds of care, respect, curiosity, and spas. Worlds that allow us to heal. Worlds that honor our pasts and our family traditions and worlds that can teach us new things. In a time when so many structures of our own world continue to break apart and harm, we turn to artists, chefs, community archivists, friends, soccer team founders, and our fellow classmates. These people have made their own visions of the world possible, in small ways and large, and we all get to benefit.
As we discover how to cultivate our own imaginings for better worlds through our practices, we find guidance through these honest conversations with each other. We hope that by inviting you to step into some of the different worlds we explore in this issue, that you might also discover new and more expansive ways of being in your own.
Your editors,
Nina Vichayapai, Lou Blumberg, Clara Harlow
Copy editing by Adela Cardona Puerta, Gwen Hoeffgen, Sarah Luu, and Dom Toliver
Cover by Sarah Luu
