Editor’s Note: Commune
The wind cuts now, gentle summer breezes fading with the leaves. Hats thicken, collars turn up to protect necks and we move our conversations inside. We bring with us any bounty we have found, from field and garden, harvested or hunted. A variety of holidays begin sprinkling in the calendar and we make plans to gather.
Fires are lit, soups simmer and memory weaves into story, as it always does and always has. We have had such a good time, celebrating storytelling with you this fall. And have been looking forward to offering up our gathered bounty as we dive into issue two of Raconteur, Commune: Experience together.
The conversation is quick but the cooking is slow in TASTE as Blaine Peetso learns from masters, the art of conversation, hospitality, and tailgate snacking from a quartet of Italians.
Poets Erin Woodward, Erin Kalpin, and Jenn Walter ponder on woods, water and love in READ. While Cameron Kirby belly crawls through his childhood in WANDER. Our two poets named Erin add more verse on two very different walks.
Rounding out the issue is a new section called LINGER. These are not stories to be rushed. We start it off with Brad Trumbo and the first of a four-part series we will be publishing as a serial. Sign up for our email newsletter so you don’t miss when our next story drops.
We hope you are settled in, gathered up and ready for winter. We have more stories coming.
Katie Willis, Founder
Executive Editor and Raconteur
