Today I finished writing a long academic paper, which is not my strong suit, in Spanish, which is not my first language. It took forever. My brain is soup. But I care a lot about the topic—rural lands and traditional knowledge in the context of wildfires—which calls on research carried out in southern Chile on and off over the last two years.
Anyway, it was good to have the constraint of the assignment and a deadline. Now, I’m giving myself the constraint of staying under 200 words and getting some sleep.
RURAL LINKS:
Bill McKibben breaks down the gutting of the US Forest Service while looking back at its history and what this moment may mean.
The Navajo Nation has over 420,000 enrolled members; leaders say the new voter ID act threatens their ability to vote. By Peter O’Dowd for WBUR.
Kathryn Hughes reviews a new book chronicling one professor’s year spent going through the personal archives of Stephen King, who’s described as “a teddy bear”.