doing something different with language
snapshots of the moment (a podcast)
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124.
… Read more...It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 114-115
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… Read more...In this way, acorn animism turned bit by bit into its offspring, botany. She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that
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A reading from The Overstory, by Richard Powers. 2018, p.86-87.
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… Read more...He wants to keep heading west. Trouble is, the only strip still west of him feels like going east again. And yet he’s got his used
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A reading from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013, p. 274-275.
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… Read more...Umbilicaria is often the victim of its own success. Accumulation is its undoing. Slowly, slowly, the