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Books, Seeds, Essays, Songs, Films, Poems Inspiring Me
Hello all!
Fall arrived overnight in the Hudson Valley and every morning on my run I watch kids wait for the school bus, slightly envying the way the start of the school year provides a reset and punctuation. I love the smell of new notebooks, the first day in a new seminar looking around at the other students, flipping through a syllabus and making a mental schedule of reading and writing papers.
This time last year I was feeling super-saturated with information. I’d read hundreds of scientific articles, theory, philosophy, and books as I wrote my own memoir. My friend Katherine (check out her amazing music as Kazimi ) mentioned that she’s trying not to “chainsmoke podcasts” and I related HARD.
So I took a break. I read lots of fiction. I wrote fiction. And now as the trees drop their sap into their subterranean root-brains, I’m feeling ravenous for new ideas. We have seasons of learning and I can feel myself entering a new one. It’s a bit like falling in love when you start following the interest in one subject to another. Suddenly a whole web is woven across disciplines and idealogical gulfs, glistening with dew, vibrating with spider leg tugs.
I'm sharing some of the things that are part of my new season of learning below.
Ferris Jabr, a longtime writer for Scientific American and the NYT, updates Margulis and Lovelock’s vision of Gaia. For lovers of deep time, microbes, and mystery. Urgent and poetic. I also enjoyed this talk by Jabr about his research
