Kin

In "Religion and Ecology" today we spoke again about how English closes us to the living world - a somewhat rhetorical exercise given that most everyone in the room is monolingual. I've challenged them to include the trees we see out the window in our class community, and to refer to them, following Kimmerer's suggestion, as ki/kin. It'll feel silly at first, I promised, but at some point things will change. Kin were watching us, with some feathered friends.