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False Passives – Anna Badkhen
Season 14
In this narrated essay for our ongoing series on migration, Anna Badkhen asks: When does a journey begin? As she encounters people traveling…
4 years ago
On Death and Love – Melanie Challenger
Season 14
In this narrated essay, environmental philosopher Melanie Challenger examines the belief in human exceptionalism that has devastated life on…
4 years ago
Birder to Birder – J. Drew Lanham
Season 14
In this narration of his essay, birder and naturalist J. Drew Lanham imagines an exchange of letters between Henry David Thoreau and John Ja…
4 years ago
When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is …
4 years, 1 month ago
Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives – Makshya Tolbert
Season 14
In this narration of her essay, writer and poet Makshya Tolbert wades into the liminal, haunted space that exists between water and Black me…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ten Love Letters to the Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh read by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Season 14
In honor of the passing of Buddhist monk and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we republished his Ten Love Letters to the Earth, a series of medit…
4 years, 1 month ago
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 3
Season 14
Spanish missions, boarding schools, and ranching empires in California drove many Coast Miwok people from their ancestral land, targeting th…
4 years, 1 month ago
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 2
Season 14
This three-part series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family's eviction from their ancestral home—on a cove in Tomales Bay …
4 years, 2 months ago
Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 1
Season 14
Across the United States, Indigenous communities are calling for sweeping revisions to stories commonly told as “history”—stories that, even…
4 years, 2 months ago
From Dirt – Camille T. Dungy
Season 14
In this essay Camille reflects on the journey of seeds, how much of what we plant in our gardens was brought to our soils during the slave t…
4 years, 2 months ago