I was asked to write on ecothanatos, an emerging theme in my study group where we engage in practicing other ways of learning with the more-than-human world. The word teases me. What can I learn […]
Tag: olive tree
I Olive Sitting in the Backseat
More and more, I try to not host online writing(with)plants sessions. Also last week, I sat in the backseat of the online writing(with)olive session. Heide Maria and Konkankoh held the circle. The olive tree was […]
Writing with Olive
This text emerged during the online writing(with)plants session, organized on July 16th, with 14 participants calling in from Canada, India, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United States.
Writing (with) Olive (Join us on July 16th)
– A blog written in co-creation with session co-hosts Youssef Mahmoud, Konkankoh Joshua, and Olive Here in the south of Portugal, we are readying for an online session of writing (with) plants on Thursday July […]
Penelope, Unravelled — On Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and the Trickster Who Never Left Home
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has been out for five minutes and people are already arguing about the wrong things. The casting. The runtime. Whether Matt Damon can pull off a Greek hero. Meanwhile, the most interesting character in the whole epic is being ignored again, the way she has been for three thousand years. I’m talking about Penelope. Not the patient wife. The trickster.