This time, it takes me a minute to tune out the human-produced sounds. There’s an endless stream of tweeting birds; some caw loudly from a distance, some tweet softly from trees right next to me, nearly all of them invisible to my eye. I hear, too, the low rumble of the river. It roared from […]
Month: April 2025
Rabat’s Skyscraper
It’s starting to get hot in the afternoons. There is wisteria blooming all over Rabat, especially along the trellises in the botanical garden, and the cat that lives at the language center had her kittens. Spring is here in full swing. I even saw a turtle walking down the path on my way into the […]
Kyle Whyte & Building Reciprocal Bonds
In the final unit of my Contemporary Political Theory course at LSE, we discussed modern theories of addressing climate change. Some of the essential questions were: how do we decide who ought to ‘bear the burden’ of addressing climate change? How do we balance the historical accumulation of emissions with the impacts of the highest […]
Slowing Down, Getting in Touch
My friend Emma and I were eating lunch together at a ramen restaurant in Holborn when we got on the topic of spirituality. She and I both enjoy reading tarot and thinking about our connection to the earth in terms beyond the simple extractive relationship we engage in day-to-day. She expressed to me that since […]
Protecting our land
This island country is most concerned with its beaches and oceans when climate change comes up. I am currently in a Marine Ecology class, and much of what we are studying also ties into the impacts of ocean warming – fishery collapse, food web alteration, habitat change, stratification, and weather. Sea level rise is also […]
I never posted my fourth post! Sheltered or soggy?
I seem to have written this on the 16th of March, but considered it done once I finished my draft! Here is my belated post: I’ve returned to my sit spot, but it looks a little different this time. I am fortunate that at this moment it is not raining, but for the past […]
Going with the flow, riding the tide…
Today I’m sitting under a new tree, in a new park, though the bird calls and wet earth seeping through my pants are familiar. I like to imagine I can hear the birds I often do at the river, but these are likely not the same ones. This owl I hear, calling out that it […]