Tag: Trees

  • The Ecology of Time

    I picked up two words during the pandemic that already existed. I had to make a third one myself. “Rewirement” had been circulating in career writing for years before 2020, a way to describe retirement that keeps moving instead of stopping. “Eco-anxiety” already had a home in psychology, the chronic worry that settles in when you watch the planet strain…

  • Falling Leaves

    autumn leaves falling spilling rain from cloudy skies goodbye summer Since I could never be Japanese, despite being born and raised in Tokyo, the urban forests that surrounded me throughout my childhood are my only truth that Japan is home. When my father passed, we had to move out of the house that we called our home. I realized that…