Miranda Schmidt

4 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Alissa Hattman |Jo Lou |Miranda Schmidt

Reading Lists In these stories, humans embrace the wild and become something more In the old tales, humans come together with animals and plants, mountains and rivers, rain and sky. The wood nymph, Daphne, turns into a laurel tree to escape the pursuit of a god. Seal women slough off their selkie skins to live on land for a time. Some traditions even tell of the first humans being made from trees. Folklore has a way of muddling binaries. In the traditional stories of selkies, mermaids,...

May 5, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Miranda Schmidt

Words are human creations. And yet, they have nonhuman roots. From mythic associations to sonic rhymes, our human words can also, perhaps, bring us into a space of deeper interconnectedness. In 2017, writer Robert MacFarlane and artist Jackie Morris collaborated on The Lost Words: A Spell Book. This beautiful book was conceived as a kind of linguistic rewilding.