Listening while I work:
“What does it mean to move like a river and to live in flow with the world around us? In this episode, Willow is joined by one of the world’s most celebrated nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, to follow the many forms of flow—of water, of language, and of life itself.”
https://atmos.earth/podcast/robert-macfarlane-on-embracing-flow-and-letting-rivers-heal-us/
#podcast #atmos #nature #rivers #water #animacy #healing #flow
Listening to a nature podcast. One of the speakers notices a creature and another says, "Yeah I dunno who that is."
Animacy for the win!!
“The Animate Everything is waiting to be asked for its stories. It's not that the dragonflies and the ivy and the fungus and the frogs and the mountain lions remain mute. It's that, high on our own narrative of human supremacy, we forget to ask, "What troubles you?"
— from Sophie Strand’s book “The Flowering Wand”
#SophieStrand
#TheFloweringWand
#empathy
#AnimateEverything
#animacy
Learning the grammar of animacy. What a sea change of perspective!! English speakers have trouble with other humans’ pronouns, wait until they need to pronoun animals and bodies of water.
@jacethechicken Shakira does her own translations and she messes up sometimes. Like the line about her making fun of the distance in Whenever, Wherever; that's a mistranslation. The Spanish word there is usually "mock" but in this sense in English it really should be "overcome", as in overcome the distance.
Anyway, the wolf isn't anything but a "she" in Spanish; she messed up #animacy in English.
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