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Six months ago, #TurningofDays entered the world. It feels like both yesterday & a lifetime ago & reminds me of how strangely we experience time. 
In modern life, we tend tithis is fine & good. Until your forward progress is stalled. Until you’re in the same place you were 1 year… 2 years… 10 years ago…
In these liminal moments when we find ourselves unexpectedly paused it can feel like we’ve missed something. & that we’ve failed somehow. Weren’t we supposed to b further along Weren’t we supposed to have accomplished more? Weren’t we supposed to have life figured out by now?
Love this. One of the biggest misconceptions I see in creation stewardship convo is restricting it to rural spaces. "City" is not an antonym of "nature".
We can easily romanticize engagement w/ creation & imagine that being a "naturalist" means living a rural lifestyle. But it's much more about perspective than location.
.@n_d_anderson & I both grew up in the country & it shaped us in ways we didn't recognize for a long time. But even when we've lived in less than rural spaces, we shared a particular disposition or awareness of natural world.
Spending the morning reading #worldofwonders by @aimeenez & loving it. @n_d_anderson brought it home for me last week. milkweed.org/book/world-of-…
It's a wonderful, poetic book, but mostly, I'm struck by what Nezhukumatahathil is modeling for readers: A way of seeing the natural world, of recognizing its wonder & enchantment.
This graf from the NYT's review gets to it:
A snippet from #TurningofDays. Really loved this project b/c it let me build on themes from previous books while giving attention to how those truths are embodied in natural world.
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Readers of #HumbleRoots and #AllThatsGood will recognize this mashup. Finding patterns & connections btwn natural revelation & specific revelation is my absolute favorite. Would write this book 100x in a 100 different ways if given the chance.
All that to say, I can't wait to get it in readers' hands. I'm usually like, "Yeah, so I've got a book coming out... but only read it if you want... I mean no big deal... it is what it is." It's different somehow w/ this one.
The deer skull on the right inspired one of the essays in my next book #TurningofDays.
And let me just say, if you've never meditated on the natural process of decomposition irt your own body & the coming Resurrection, it's something else. #momentomori
And let me just say, if you've never meditated on the natural process of decomposition irt your own body & the coming Resurrection, it's something else. #momentomori
I'm really curious (& very excited) to see how readers respond to #TurningofDays. It's an exploration of the natural world as it intersects w/ theological truths. So you know, things like decaying deer skulls & human bodies & waiting for the Resurrection.
I think it will challenge some folks. But I promise, there's no dancing thru dew-wet fields under a the light of a summer moon. I save that kind of thing for midday.
Following up on previous thread: One of the most important ideas that emerged in writing my next book #TurningofDays is how infrequently we recognize nature's bent toward decay in our evaluation of life on this earth.
Like us, nature exists under curse & groans for redemption. Like us, she is at war w/in herself & what is "natural" may not be good or right.
Nature can teach us about reproduction & fertility, but it can't make moral decisions about it. It can teach us how to survive, but it cannot teach us the ethics of survival.
