This morning—January 16—my aunt, who rarely gets in touch, sent me a WhatsApp video. I assume this was an act of kindness. My smallest dog has just come through a fairly harrowing surgery, and my aunt, sensing the gravity of that fact from afar, was trying to lift my spirits. The message accompanying the video …
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A Self-Study The questions that stay with us are rarely neutral. They gather force from experience, from education, from discomfort, and from the private places where grief and argument begin to overlap. This piece began as an effort to examine the questions that had been following me most closely: why roadkill affects me so deeply, …
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Every morning, on our way to work, my community and I involuntarily participate in violence. We partake again in the evening, on our way home, and helplessly many times throughout the day as we crisscross the rural landscape in our vehicles. Roadkill is an inevitable repercussion of American car culture, so routine as to seem …
My little love Indie has been having a hard time of it. Pancreatitis perhaps; an acute case. Hard not to feel contempt for the neighbors and the compost pile they insist on throwing salmon on. That’s what it was last time anyway – three day old salmon. I don’t know what he got into this …
The day before E.O. Wilson’s second birthday I spontaneously shot this video of him and then posted it to a group of rat lovers on Facebook (because precious few making up the general public appreciate rats). The response was overwhelmingly positive (at least for me, a social media hermit). The video and the commentary it …
Asking for a friend: is there any actual consensus amongst the scientific community that E.O. Wilson’s body of research is dated and in need of debunking? She needs to know – because if there is, she’ll have to rename her rat. __ That’s right, I named my rat E.O. Wilson. Afterall, a clever creature is …