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Spring 2025
“HERE’S MY THEORY,” I say, sitting on my heels in between rows of cabbage seedlings. “Time isn’t shaped like a line. It moves in one direction, maybe, but that’s all the line has going for it. I think time is iterative, nonlinear, subjective. Maybe it’s shaped like a river, a thing that flows and branches, you know? It has tributaries, goes at different paces, gets caught in eddies and whirlpools. Or maybe it’s tree rings. Or onion layers.”
It’s midsummer, and we’re seeding our last succession of cabbage, their plump predecessors yanked from the earth just the week before. Twelve generations of cabbage will live and die over each other here this season on our campus farm, and I’m thinking about the shape of time again.
Fall 2024
Caw! Caw! The croaking black bird peers at me from the wire fence. Its slick feathers glisten under the October sun like an oil spill, and I can’t help but see it as an omen, dark bird of dark weather, haunting me without helping it. Craw! I screech back, poorly. Caw! Caw! I do my best to match it – two croaks, around the same pitch, a second or two apart. It pauses, blinks. I cannot tell if it’s looking at me or not – beady black eyes peering into the entire sky on either side of its small shiny head. It croaks a bit more, so do I. Then it takes off into the bright autumn sky.
4.11.24
Priya is an interdisciplinary ecologist and artist with an extensive background in multimedia storytelling and a passion for connecting with the natural world through art.
In this week’s episode, Justin and Priya cover environmental justice, the writing process, and the need to sit with both hope and despair. Priya also shares one of their poems, Untitled Poem About Fire.
Full transcript available here.
Spring 2024
A personal and cultural history of yoga in the United States
Spring 2024
An incomplete history of rock and punk in the United States, braided with personal musings on queerness, otherness, and the immortal gay brilliance of the band boygenius.
December 2022
“Green by example,” read billboards across Sharm El Sheikh, as thousands descended on Egypt for COP27. Politicians came to re-evaluate last year’s climate pledges. Activists came to keep fossil fuels from hijacking negotiations. Fossil fuel execs came to cover their asses, which are currently on fire.
