For many of us, the price we pay for living in this slice of paradise is having to travel far and wide for work. It can be an exciting, draining, and relationship-straining existence, but returning home each time is made so much sweeter by the time away. Local musician, Charles Wall AKA Bobby Alu, and environmental lawyer, Nina Lucas, are no strangers to this lifestyle, each having to regularly leave Byron Shire for music tours and legal cases. We caught them both on a rare weekend at home.

She is the ground beneath us, the sky up above. Her warm embrace is the thickness of the forest, her love, a cool ocean breeze. She holds the space for creation; she is creation. Yogini Brooklyn Reardon embraces our Mother Earth and is held in return.

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars …

When we’re young, we often get asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ It’s a cute conversation starter, but let’s be real, there’s no way some of us could have fathomed where we would end up.

I scan the radio like I know what I’m looking for. I settle on a channel, and sounds of Portuguese pop music fill the car with intermittent announcements of a man with a low voice and a laugh that completely contrasts his deep tenors.

Tora is a four piece electronic band with an ever-evolving sound. Born in Byron Bay, these multi-instrumentalists travel the world making music, and have a new album out in August, titled Can’t Buy the Mood.

Benjamin Law is an author, journalist, TV screenwriter and newspaper columnist. His new anthology, Growing Up Queer is a book of stories about what it’s like to grow up in Australia with gender or sexual diversity.

The events of our lives leave an indelible mark on who we are — inspiring a different direction, new philosophies and changed priorities. The smallest things can pivot us in ways we couldn’t have ever predicted.

Practice and all is coming. Breath is life. We take a moment to slow down and connect with the breath with the sublime Georgia Rhodes.

A few months ago a notification pinged on my Facebook Messenger app — “Stacey has added you to her group: Chin Wags”.

A dreamy sense of nostalgia can be brought on by a myriad of things – a favourite song from our youth, the scents of summer holidays by the seaside, a piece of clothing from a cringe-worthy past fashion fad.

The vivid red dirt of the Kimberley doesn’t just get under your nails and stain your clothes – it gets under your skin and has a mystical force that keeps drawing you back.

Inspired by John Wolseley’s intimate observation of nature?

Delta has a quiet and humble presence that commands your attention. While some people feel the need to raise their voice to be heard, Delta speaks gently, with strong conviction and truth.

I’ve walked the loudest streets of India, I’ve seen the wonders of Vietnam and taken the obligatory Bali trip, but I have never experienced streets like this before.

The seasons change. Nature flows with this transition and changes to suit. Our energy is different in summer than it is in winter. So why do we stay so rigid to a repeating work/life schedule for 365 days a year?

We spent a glorious morning basking in the soft sunshine at this beautifully low-impact home.

Hiromi sent me her address with a novella sized addendum attached to it. Apparently Google Maps had yet to document this portion of the world.

Driving the same road, that took me through the countryside to where it was I needed to be. The mystic, melodramatic and at times cliche. Sundays spent in the garden, pondering the next step. Cloudy, rosie and vivid.

I love nothing more than a nice cup of tea – even on a steamy hot summer’s day, I’ll gladly sip a piping hot cuppa. And of course, we all know that more can be gained from cups of tea than just a comforting beverage.

Leave early, Come late. Venture often. The Aoraki (Mt. Cook) Valley and the rest of the southern alps fade behind us.

I got asked a while back whether I consider myself an activist, and at the time I shied away from the label—I wasn’t out on the frontline chaining myself to trees, so did I deserve to add ‘Activist’ to my title?

With a day to spare to see the sights of Los Angeles, our Art Director Lila Theodoros took a 10 minute Uber ride down the road from sterile, tourist-ready Santa Monica Pier and found a wonderland of energy, sights and experiences – Venice Beach.

Erupting out of the rocky hills and sandy valleys of central Arizona lies Arcosanti.

My name is Prudence Melom. My story began in Chad, central Africa in a little village called Beballem on a hot steamy day on the 23rd of June 1995.

Albert (Digby) Moran had an idyllic childhood catching fish and running free on Cabbage Tree Island. Madeleine Murray spent the day with the charismatic Aboriginal artist, and is still thinking about it.

Living in the Northern Rivers there is a constant pull between the ocean and the hills. While both are easily accessible from each other, it still feels like a lifestyle choice to be by the sea or nestled among the trees just a little inland.

Apart from the occasional time that my mum would coax us kids into helping her weed the garden, I can’t say that I’ve ever really given much thought to weeds.