Resource Roundup #21
For the week of September 17th.
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Hello all—
Happy Friday! It seems the weather might finally be starting to cool down, and here in North Carolina, the leaves are beginning to burst into color and go golden in the light. It’s beautiful. Things are good. Celebrate something small today.
ICYMI, I have a new piece out in Bitter Southerner this week about Charleston’s climate change crisis and the artistic response, with a particular focus on the spiritual roots of this city and the search for empathy and common understanding with nature. It’s the first time I’ve really written about my hometown, and I’m thrilled to feature so many incredible artists and activists in the piece.
Also, as part of this series on creative responses to climate change, “Hell and High Water”, Bitter Southerner has a new t-shirt with partial proceeds going to organizations working on climate relief in the South.
This NYT feature on American rural schools is heartbreaking and so well done. As a rural school teacher, I sent this to everyone I knew as soon as I read it. For any urban or suburban educator, you need to read this.
Southerly is talking wild swimming holes across the South. Nothing I love more than swimming in a freezing river.
Read this Twitter thread by Amal Ahmed:
Yeah, that…
As a vegetarian currently experimenting with eating meat again, I’m really excited about Wyatt William’s upcoming novel release, Springer Mountain, out from UNC Press on the 28th. In the meantime, I loved this essay of his in Harper’s about Alaska, whale meat, and the search for meaning.
This is me in all my fantasies:
