Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues

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August 15, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace The life of an animal lies outside of conjecture. It is far beyond the scientific papers and the campfire stories. It is as true as breath. It is important as the words of children. - Craig Childs - Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues "It was a fortuitous flip to the essay on pronghorns that persuaded me to pick up Craig Childs' The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild. In each intimately wrought tale on antelopes, hawks, and red-spotted toads, I found a writer and translator more versed in the tongues of the non-human world than I will ever be. Childs honors the weight and magnitude of his encounters with creatures large and small, preserving the distance and mystery that comes with each meeting. He strives to convey in words what cannot be expressed in words, and in each essay I see one who does what I wish to do myself: To connect with respect, to speak for the voiceless, to bear witness to life and death in their eternal splendor." { read more } Be The Change Listen for the tongues of the non-human world this week. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well Anne Lamott Writes Down Every Single Thing She Knows People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not Pushing Through: A Poem for Grieving Hearts 6 Habits of Hope To Keep Company With Oneself 5 Core Practices for More Meaningful Conversations Inside the Mind of Temple Grandin DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,871 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More