Tecause the Animals You Talk About Are Not Ordinary, Are They?

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i very purposely chose he animals that aren't normally thought of as pets really. And i did not want to feel construced by a line breakye, it feels like you had this kind of wellspring of things that have been waiting a long time to be said. It's about growing up as as a brown person amongst white people and the way that your differences were marked out. I wanted more animals than not to be animals that people weren't familiar with over all. Yes, so that we could all feel like students, and then that we're still all students. We should be.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of ‘World Of Wonders’ and more.

An uplifting, soulful and inspiring chat with Aimee and Katherine, beginning with a foundation of wonder and never dropping the ball once.

Moving from prose to poetry and immediately feeling boundaries being lifted, Aimee has put out some truly valuable work into the world and this is a perfect opportunity to get to the heart of it all.

As always, it branches out into some rich areas including the juxtaposition of memoir and nature, enforced patriotism as a child, the gradual introduction of cultural reference while growing up, seeing the restrictive attitudes of the 80’s dissolving through generations, examples of harnessing the outdoors and nature from her parents and her geography being shaped by their professions, making your own entertainment, moments of wonder and how children can help trigger them in adults through example, the luxury of time in enjoying the outdoors and so much more to enrich your day.

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