Our hiking group started as 'wildlife watchers' five years ago but now every trip becomes this grim accounting of what's disappeared since last time and nobody knows how to enjoy nature anymore when we're constantly cataloguing loss.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared love of nature has transformed into shared grief, with no one knowing how to hold both appreciation and loss simultaneously.
“Where Are You with The sixth extinction — examined?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.