Porter’s Reviews > Hummingbird Salamander > Status Update

Savina wrote that even through the poisoned landscape, We must love it. We must love it has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. Until of the damage is to know you care about that world. That you’re still alive. That the world is alive.

as my illness progressed, over time, I would see also the complexity of what we took for granted in our landscapes and hidden lines of connection with attached to me until moving through the world was like being wrapped in chains. But it was the links, the chains, that made you free. Once you saw it all, you could never go back. Everything was alive. Overwhelming. I was overwhelmed eventually. Overcome.