COMMUNITY
MILESTONE BIRTHDAYS invite reflection. What have we put into the world in all this time? Are we what we imagined we’d be? A publication like Orion does not survive without continually reconciling the need to stay true to one’s founding principles with the need to grow. If all goes well, we’ll be remembered for both. This year marks our fortieth anniversary, and in the months leading up to the occasion, we gave in to nostalgia and revisited some old photo albums. And though sifting through four decades of Orion covers did bring up some adolescent moments we’d rather forget, it mostly revealed a consistent thrumming of joys and anxieties. Not surprisingly, the word that appears most frequently on our covers is nature. Justice first shows up in 1996, and global warming…