I think what you're capturing is how so many of us are feeling it's this sense of utter despair and of lostness and fury and homesickness and anxiety like all rolled into a big bull. What do we begin with to start to recover the sense of home that we deserve on symbolic and practical levels? And one of the most important things is turning these things instead of being, you know, private anxieties into public anger because collectively we're better. Yeah. So, big sigh. I'm very glad to be here. It's not, yeah. This is where we are, right? Because we are imbued as a whole society now,. except for very few people who
Jay Griffiths’ writing has long explored the link between land, culture and our potential for connection, but her father’s death during lockdown made this more vital than ever. Denied the comfort or closure of a funeral, Jay had to find other ways to connect, mourn and memorialise, and in this gentle, wide-ranging conversation she and Katherine talk about imaginary journeys, ritual and delving into a sense of place.
Behind all of Jay’s work is an ecological urgency, and a sense of grief for the life that we seem to be losing. Here, it’s expressed through the idea of homelessness, both literal and metaphorical. But she also introduces us to the character of Nemesis, offering us a model for justice that might just see us through the next decades.
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