The Visionary Activist Show – Sacrament of Kinship

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Grief & Mourning artfully expressed becomes a Sacrament of Kinship

Caroline welcomes Eiren Caffall, author of “The Mourner’s Bestiary”

“Lyrical reports from the apocalypse”

The Mourner’s Bestiary is a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores. The Gulf of Maine is the world’s fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the fights ahead for the Gulf. Eiren Caffall carries a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease, raising a child who may also. The Mourner’s Bestiary braids environmental research with a memoir of generational healing, and the work it takes to get there for the human and animal lives caught in tides of loss.

“Insightful and deeply researched…Caffall looks
into the nuances of individual human survival and the survival of our planet as a whole.”

Hope and wonder in the face of environmental collapse…

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