adrift?

Here is not the first place someone has used that title, I'm sure. 

Having been footloose in the Driftless for a bit, the spring issue of Inspire(d) magazine caught my eye the other day. And I truly was Inspired! 

This region is not Vermont-in-Wisconsin but growing its own life out of the generations that have started everything from Waldorf and Driftless Folk Schools to the Organic Valley Co-op. 

Take a peek:

The frustration, disenfranchisement, and even terror of her peers is what 20-something  Ayla (p. 56) feels in the climate change battle - which has built a community she did not expect.

Expansion of opportunity and community drives 30-somethings Bree and Eric (p. 29) in their maple syrup life, which morphed during the pandemic as have so many others.

And older-somethings like Renee (p. 26) are more quietly weaving strength and belonging.

It feels like a place of purpose, which was clear at the Driftless Folk Festival. Over and over we watched people greet each other like they had been long-lost, bear hugs and dancing and talking for hours. The grey hair with the baby fuzz, many barefoot at the park.

Community, free creativity, and building of all kinds, found in letting go and wandering - from the coulees to the Mississippi outside to the bookstores, art spaces, and food halls inside.