This month, Mary got to spend time with Alexis Marie Adams, a freelance writer and journalist. When we recorded, Lexy was in the last few weeks of spending half her year in a remote village in Southern Greece. This is her annual rhythm, with the summer and fall stretch spent in another small community at the edge of Montana's Beartooth Mountain Range.

In these places, Lexy writes. Her focus is cultural and sustainable travel and environmental issues. Her articles and essays explore history and culture in the eastern Meditarranean, traditional and sustainable agriculture and, more recently, old-growth forests and other imperiled ecosystems globally. Lexy's work has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, Scientific American, Orion Magazine and The Boston Globe among other outlets.

In their conversation, Mary and Lexy explored the influence of place on various forms of climate activism and the role of journalism in climate repair. They also turned attention to the underlying meaning humans know in relationship with the natural world.

You can learn more about Lexy on her website.  There you’ll find access to a great selection of her writing. And, as promised, here's her article on Albania’s wild nature published by the NYT in April 2025.

Don’t miss the chance to take a deeper dive into Lexy’s observations of and inspiration from this magnificent planet. As she says - it’s all about attunement - and that’s all about interdependence and love.

MUSIC

Good Morning Café Jazz. Music by Sleep Volume from Pixabay

Rolled Ankles: Smooth Jazz Flute Instrumental. Music by Nicholas Panek from Pixabay

Piano Jazz-324015. Music by Mircea Iancu from Pixabay