Ever since I got to Berlin, I’ve been hyper-aware of my waste habits. From my sit spot, I can see the expansive garbage disposal system in my courtyard: surrounded by trees and blooming greenery, an array of color-coded, descriptively labeled trash bins lies at the center of the yard. Back home in the United States, […]

In childhood, I was taught that the world’s creation came about in a series of separation- the establishment of expanses, a creation of order. Human beings- the finest, and final, of the divine’s creations- were also deemed the most separate and distinct from nature’s dis-order. This overly simplistic approach has long led me towards an […]