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A late night meditation on dignified goodbyes, caring for orphaned things, grey squirrels, and the river of letting go... *** Sometime last year, on the cusp of summer and autumn, my pregnant landmate placed an orphaned baby squirrel on my lap. In
Russian freedom fighter Alexei Navalny’s assassination strikes an especially haunting chord in me. It echoes over and over, reminding me of the rare beauty of bravery. Bravery, a thing we so badly need. Check it out on my Substack (link in bi
New piece on the stack. Another Appalachia-inspired bleeding heart sunset-of-civilization serenade for all of the creatures I love that we will lose. 🕯️⛰️ Find the link in my bio. Peace to all beings.
New essay 🪭 Researchers conservatively estimate of 7,000 known human languages, half will disappear in the next century. Every two weeks a language goes extinct. This looks like a terminal speaker—the last living person of a community who flu