When Our Gods Take Us Back: A Western Podcast and Epiphany
Blast from the past! My work from Semester in the West, a Whitman College field program I completed August through December 2016, has been published on the program's website.
Then click here and scroll to watch the public reading of my epiphany, "When Our Gods Take Us Back."
The essay imagines the Sixth Mass Extinction through the lens of Diné (Navajo) cosmology.
They don't show up in the video, but this epiphany reading was paired with a slideshow of images from the semester. I'll include them here, and you can view them with the video as you like.
Click here and scroll down to listen to my podcast, "A Lethal Take On Conservation."
It's an eight-minute journey with three conservationists who have come to terms with a paradox: sometimes to save a species, we must sacrifice an individual.
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| Click here to listen. |
Then click here and scroll to watch the public reading of my epiphany, "When Our Gods Take Us Back."
The essay imagines the Sixth Mass Extinction through the lens of Diné (Navajo) cosmology.
 |
| Click here to watch. |
They don't show up in the video, but this epiphany reading was paired with a slideshow of images from the semester. I'll include them here, and you can view them with the video as you like.
While you're on the website, I highly encourage you to listen to the epiphanies and podcasts of my fellow Westies. These people are articulate, compassionate, insightful, and a whole long list of things I admire. Every single one of their epiphanies gives me shivers. Seriously. Check them out.
Signe, Griffin, Sophie, Willa, Amanda, Hunter, Abby, Maggie, Thomas, Gardner, Kenzie, Evan, Hannah, Grace, Rachel, Elizabeth, Maya, Fields, Emma, Sarah, Ysa, Collin, and Phil: you've changed my life. I miss you, and I am thankful for you.