A Lesson
From the
Leaves
Episode 7
A Lesson From the Leaves
The air has grown cooler, and the leaves are falling from the trees. We are in the thick of fall, which also means the thick of transformation. I’ve always heard that grief is something you grow through, so I sat with the soil and mirrored the earth's cycles. I sat with the trees, the falling leaves, and the wind to help me remember. That endings are endings, but they can also seed new beginnings.
Produced by: Donelle Wedderburn
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Suggested Reading + Watch List
The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton - Marina Magloire
Lucille Clifton and the Task of Remembering - Marina Magloire
The Book of Light - Lucille Clifton
A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry - Camille T. Dungy
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