Two things really stuck out from this piece : “botanist only in imagination”, and the follow up of the disintegrating book. I loved your post on weather but this time I feel as though you’ve read my mind. Chewing chewing on creativity and its definitions and barriers!! I’m glad to add this to my file of study on the topic….
(Also, if you studied botany seriously, I’m pretty confident you could be one of the most powerful climate writers alive. Just an assertion.)
This is so sweet to hear! Thank you for reading so closely. And it's interesting your comment about studying botany... I often feel that I keep it at a distance intentionally, precisely for how botany and its relationship to power has shaped colonized ecosystems through the centuries. I appreciate and am fascinated by learning more about the plants around me, but I tend to resist expertise and the systematic accumulation of knowledge that leads to a discipline so that I can remain a beginner, remain on the outside, and more receptive to indigenous bodies of plant knowledge on this continent.
That's where I'm at these days, anyway! It's always changing.
Respectfully, You are limiting yourself! You can become a botanist & plant enthusiast without certification. Serious ≠ officiant. Don’t restrain your ability to participate— Botany is just a word that means intimate knowledge of plants 💜
Two things really stuck out from this piece : “botanist only in imagination”, and the follow up of the disintegrating book. I loved your post on weather but this time I feel as though you’ve read my mind. Chewing chewing on creativity and its definitions and barriers!! I’m glad to add this to my file of study on the topic….
(Also, if you studied botany seriously, I’m pretty confident you could be one of the most powerful climate writers alive. Just an assertion.)
This is so sweet to hear! Thank you for reading so closely. And it's interesting your comment about studying botany... I often feel that I keep it at a distance intentionally, precisely for how botany and its relationship to power has shaped colonized ecosystems through the centuries. I appreciate and am fascinated by learning more about the plants around me, but I tend to resist expertise and the systematic accumulation of knowledge that leads to a discipline so that I can remain a beginner, remain on the outside, and more receptive to indigenous bodies of plant knowledge on this continent.
That's where I'm at these days, anyway! It's always changing.
Respectfully, You are limiting yourself! You can become a botanist & plant enthusiast without certification. Serious ≠ officiant. Don’t restrain your ability to participate— Botany is just a word that means intimate knowledge of plants 💜
Maybe permaculture instead? Big community out in the NW!
Of course you know your career best and this is just a suggestion :)