My focus this week has been elemental—literally. Air, earth, fire, water, wind. Here in northern California, where the “Camp Fire” still burns, the thick and toxic smoke from the fires is a harsh reminder of how interconnected we are, and how utterly dependent we all are on clean air, water, and soil. That’s my context this morning, and why I’m writing on the weekend instead of my typical Friday post. Friday I was preoccupied with breathing.
Reading is an act of contemplation . . . an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction . . . it returns us to a reckoning with time. —David Ulin
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