A friend handed me a copy of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s slight new book, The Serviceberry. I’d been meaning to get the book, but it had been backordered over Christmas, so I accepted the gift gladly, and asked how she’d liked it. “Nice, but unrealistic,” she said.
I read the book—maybe with this in mind. Copies arrived at the bookstore, and I gifted a copy to a friend, who thought it “delightful,” although she also said it was “depressing”—if we think about all of the ways we’ve “messed” with the world’s natural processes.Read Rich’s Post →