Katherine! Thank you for unabashedly sharing your strong and intimate voice for the world and with me. I'm looking forward to more learning, expanding my mind, and discussion to come, inspiring me to also be fuller, wilder, and deeper me : )
I am so impressed with your courage. I support this journey wholeheartedly and your willingness to openly share the process with the World. "Trauma that is not transformed is transferred". This transference is, unfortunately a reality for most of us. The pain that is part of transformation makes it so difficult (understated) to take on but your sharing may make it just a little bit easier for the people who read your posts. I have learned from you since the day you were born and I look forward to seeing what else you have to teach me!
a couple thoughts your commentary provoked: your article on breeding more heat tolerant cows in the face of climate change. such tech solutions are no doubt needed in the short term...but so often they seem to also be a way of avoiding facing up to the need to change more fundamental things like our behavior, our population growth...the real drivers of climate change.
and as a journalist now morphed into something more resembling a writer, reading about your editors' strike throughs of any attempt to inject the personal into the story: wow, looking back I think my first book of nature essays was a reaction to years of being told what seemed most important to say in the newspaper about my native Chesapeake Bay--why we loved it and cared for it--was 'not news'.
Thanks so much for sharing, Tom — I totally agree. It was so hard to find a source for this article that would admit that in the end we simply need to raise fewer cows. I was glad that Thornton (who actually helped write the food & ag section of the latest IPCC report) touched on behavior change: “Consumption [of livestock products] in the global North has to decrease massively and faster..."
That's heart breaking! (Send a link where we can read some of those essays.) To a degree, I get it and of course there's a place for the straight up "news," it's just not feeling like quite my place anymore. But I do think it's silly that we sort of pretend there aren't actual humans behind/creating the news we read.
Wow, what an astounding human! I'm so looking forward to following her journey and supporting her along the way :)
Congrats Katherine!
Brava!
Katherine! Thank you for unabashedly sharing your strong and intimate voice for the world and with me. I'm looking forward to more learning, expanding my mind, and discussion to come, inspiring me to also be fuller, wilder, and deeper me : )
I am so impressed with your courage. I support this journey wholeheartedly and your willingness to openly share the process with the World. "Trauma that is not transformed is transferred". This transference is, unfortunately a reality for most of us. The pain that is part of transformation makes it so difficult (understated) to take on but your sharing may make it just a little bit easier for the people who read your posts. I have learned from you since the day you were born and I look forward to seeing what else you have to teach me!
Aww, mom!! This is beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing, and for supporting me so tirelessly and lovingly.
a couple thoughts your commentary provoked: your article on breeding more heat tolerant cows in the face of climate change. such tech solutions are no doubt needed in the short term...but so often they seem to also be a way of avoiding facing up to the need to change more fundamental things like our behavior, our population growth...the real drivers of climate change.
and as a journalist now morphed into something more resembling a writer, reading about your editors' strike throughs of any attempt to inject the personal into the story: wow, looking back I think my first book of nature essays was a reaction to years of being told what seemed most important to say in the newspaper about my native Chesapeake Bay--why we loved it and cared for it--was 'not news'.
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Thanks so much for sharing, Tom — I totally agree. It was so hard to find a source for this article that would admit that in the end we simply need to raise fewer cows. I was glad that Thornton (who actually helped write the food & ag section of the latest IPCC report) touched on behavior change: “Consumption [of livestock products] in the global North has to decrease massively and faster..."
That's heart breaking! (Send a link where we can read some of those essays.) To a degree, I get it and of course there's a place for the straight up "news," it's just not feeling like quite my place anymore. But I do think it's silly that we sort of pretend there aren't actual humans behind/creating the news we read.