A DIET FOR THE 21st CENTURY?
Food and nutrition fads come and go all the time. We often hear folks excited about learnings they've had around what to eat and what to...
Feb 14, 20227 min read
NO SENSE OF PLACE or HOW TO ERASE HISTORY AND CULTURE
In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...
Apr 30, 202111 min read
EVERYTHING SPEAKS: MEDITATIONS ON THE ANIMISM OF LANGUAGE
David Abram and Robin Wall Kimmerer write of the tremendous power of language to shape perception and, therefore, our relationships and our reality. This has been a theme throughout my grad school program and is something widely agreed upon. We similarly agree that we want to live in a more broadly sensitive and meaningfully connected world (not just with other humans via Twitter or Zoom.) From there, we talk with force about our pressing concerns related to climate, extincti
Aug 16, 202014 min read
KIMMERER ON LANGUAGE
READING Kimmerer, R. (2017, June 12). Speaking of nature. Orion Magazine. https://orionmagazine.org/article/speaking-of-nature/ SUMMARY...
Aug 6, 20203 min read
GAIA
Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...
Feb 22, 20202 min read
INTUITION
Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with it. At all. Part of the problem, I think, is about definitions. (Though this is probably just Maslow's hammer: my cognitive bias that over-relies upon semantics. To the semantic-hammer, everything seems a word-nail.) What I'm certain of is that our readings never help with a definition. ( It seems you're just supposed to intuit a meaning. ZI
Feb 10, 20205 min read
TWO PERCENT?
Whenever I'm involved in conversations about intersex- or trans-related issues someone conflates trans with intersex and notes that one...
Oct 13, 20196 min read
WHY SHOULD IT SEEM?
PERSON 1: If we trust our senses, and just use our basic intelligence, we can tell that we live in a big, big world. Like, if I climb a...
Sep 26, 20194 min read
BISON
Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...
Jul 26, 20198 min read
DO WE HAVE TO KEEP DOING THIS? (INSECT EDITION)
Seems every news and information source is offering that we are on the cusp of a global insect mass-extinctions threatening all life on...
Feb 14, 20195 min read
