Beachnut

In a recent email to me about climate grief, theologian Hannah Malcolm offered a personal note about the approach she takes with her young daughter: “I have begun to face the responsibility of teaching her to name and relatedly love the world around her,” Malcolm wrote. “As the world breaks down around us, we will all, one way or another, have to make home again when home either becomes unrecognizable or inhospitable. The practice of naming – with all its complexity and tension – offers one way in.”

When I received that email, I was reading Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane.