Matters of Kinship
Katharine Beckett WinshipA newsletter about kinship in and between ecosystems on this beautiful habitable planet.
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Beyond the Visible World
March 29, 2026
…in my next life, I want to return as a geologist to perceive the world that once was and therefore, imagine what the world could become. Terry Tempest Williams, The Glorians
During the research for this essay, I’ve murmu...
May I Kneel Beside You, River?
Before I was a River, I was a mountain.
Before I was a mountain, I was an ocean.
Before I was an ocean, I was hot molten.
The Swannanoa River has informed my sleeping hours for years, but we have not spoken in person sinc...
Kin Rabbit, Kin Hare
“If language shapes how we relate to others — human and non-human — then the words we choose may determine not just how we treat them, but whether they survive at all.” Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Words make worlds. In English, we ‘it’ rivers, tr...
The Kinship of a Leveret
June 13, 2025
Welcome, dear readers,
If my editor still worked at our local Indie bookshop, she would have pressed a copy of Raising Hare into my hands with the same enthusiasm she exhibited for Birding to Change the World. knows my love...
Thoreau, McKibben, the Storm and Me: part III
Dear friends,
Hello and welcome to the last in the three-part series where we explore Thoreau’s enduring lineage, the strength of ’s environmental work, and my reflections on Hurricane Helene.
In Part I, I mentioned that reading Bill M...
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Science, ancient knowledge, and lived experience inform my writing about reciprocal relationships in nature.
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