As we read for this issue, our contributors led us to places we did not know we wanted to go, not until we read their work, places both geographical and emotional. Here you will visit the deep winter of Maine, the countryside of Idaho, and an onion patch shaded by loss. In the artificial light of a city, you’ll “bear witness to the living scarves unwinding.” To borrow from the psychologist John Vervaeke, these writers have completed the shaman’s work of “altering people’s sense of what matters.” Welcome to the 29th issue of Waccamaw.