mandy you are speaking directly to all my special interests here

thank you so much! that’s so kind

this is not to make the facile metaphor but rather to say that it feels like a lot of different networks of coexistence have been in a state of erosion and weakening of connections, and it’s all slow and unnoticeable until it isn’t

the other thing i was thinking a lot about while writing this piece was Laura Marris’ book THE AGE OF LONELINESS and this idea that entire species are just becoming rarer and rarer without anyone noticing, our neighborhoods quieter of birdsong, and no real sense of the loss in our day to day