Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world
Why are so many white people refusing to wear masks? It’s a kind of denial rooted in terror—of vulnerability and illness and all of nature’s uncertainties. How white people use race to insulate ourselves from the great democracy of dying—the bedrock equality of the natural world. How a pandemic is offering people many opportunities for reconciling with reality, beginning with telling a better, truer story of nature—one that opens to illness and vulnerability and that helps us support and comfort one another through this time.