Spring Issue '26

 

- In “The Future Sounds Independent,” Musician Agnes Su traces a thread across generations, where a young musician steps into the same age—and perhaps the same calling—as her great-great grandmother, finding connection and creative voice through community radio. 

 

- Emma Boonstra’s “Between Two Countrysides” moves between rural England and Northern Michigan, where a design studio called House on Horizon rooted in antique sourcing and restoration reveals how objects—and the hands that care for them—carry continuity across landscapes and time. 

 

- In “The Sum of Its Parts,” Justin Rivard reflects on building a brewery, Nocturnal Bloom, shaped by grief, collaboration, and resilience—less a business than a gathering place formed through shared effort and collective hope. 

 

- Nick Poli’s “A Place to Be” looks to Northeast Michigan, where The Sunset Project is helping reshape the region’s creative identity by supporting a growing community of artists and makers. 

 

- In “A Trip That Changed Everything,” Nazma Begum recounts an unexpected journey to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—a first camping experience that begins in uncertainty and unfolds into transformation.

 

- And in “Finding Home Again,” Sarah Hughes, executive director of Northern Michigan Supportive Housing, reflects on returning to Northern Michigan under difficult circumstances, where refuge becomes a foundation for renewed purpose and a deeper commitment to supporting those facing homelessness and mental health challenges.

 

Together, these stories form a portrait of movement and return, of inherited paths and newly forged ones—reminding us that home is not always a fixed place, but something we build, carry, and rediscover.