As I write this feast day of St. Francis, reminded that "we ourselves are dust of the earth" (Genesis 2:7) and that "our very bodies are made up of her elements" ("Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home"), human and other-than-human kin pervade my being with a question.
How do we co-sense the intimacies — the mutual relatedness and embeddedness — between our other-than-human kin (rocks, minnows, wind, etc.) and diverse human kin throughout the Earth and across time?
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