Hey, one of December's guests and I were just talking about Christian Wiman—and there he is in a recent article on, among other things, #poetry and poetic #faith in a dying world. Right now, I'm appreciating this assertion: "There is severe contradiction between our need to speak of ultimate things and the immunity of those things from speech. There is also, sometimes, #hope and rescue."
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
10/n #ClimateDiary I've been feeling so despondent about the state of the world and the prospects for #COP28 that I found myself unable to continue this series, or in fact write much at all here. @kathhayhoe: a few months back we had an exchange about #Hope, when I argued that I wasn't driven by hope as much as #DesperateDetermination. But I now recognise just how debilitating true hopelessness is, and that it is indeed a problem. I don't think I've ever had such a low. BUT:
‘This #book should be consumed in tiny pieces, thoughtfully, savoring each delicious morsel in small bites, allowing the sumptuous flavors to come alive.
“True ##poets, like mystics, are messenger pigeons,” says Labadidi. He is at heart a poet who will appeal to anyone interested in short and memorable sayings to live by.
Quarantine Notes is a book of #hope for the universal spirit.’