For The Wild

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312

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Nov 9, 2022
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INSIGHT

Fertile Unwellness

  • Sophie argues that refusing normative wellness can reveal alternative wisdom hidden in unwellness.
  • She reframes decay as fertile soil that can generate other stories and communal care.
ANECDOTE

The Woodchuck Rescue

  • Sophie describes stopping her car and rescuing a shivering woodchuck from a highway during a storm.
  • The act felt like her purpose and taught her she's often a sidekick, not the main character.
INSIGHT

Being Thought By The World

  • Sophie asks "what is thinking me?" and practices naming beings around her to enlarge her sense of mind.
  • She treats herself as part of an extended mind that makes her responsible for ecological impacts.
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