Biophilic Solutions

“What does it mean to tell the bees? To draw the natural world into our grief.” 🐝

In her new book, Carrying the Bones: Rituals for a Dying World, writer, multimedia artist, and professor @eilyana explores the ways we mourn, not only for the people we’ve lost, but for relationships, places, ecosystems, traditions, and even the world as we know it. This beautiful book weaves together memoir, cultural analysis, poetry, and asks what we might gain if we allowed ourselves to sit more fully with death and grief rather than rushing to move forward.

In our latest episode, Monica and Eileen talk about the role nature has played in mourning throughout history, the ways American culture and capitalism shape our relationship to death, and what it means to grieve not only those who have died, but those who are still living and the world itself.

Biophilic Solutions is available wherever you get podcasts. #NatureHasTheAnswers