Live Each Season as It Passes
Seduced by the spirit of our technological age, we often find ourselves drifting farther and farther from the embodied realities of creation. To ground ourselves and to develop the capacity to resist such temptations, we need habits of unplugging and intentionally spending time with the humans and nonhuman creatures that surround us daily. For those who desire this sort of grounding—or at least acknowledge their need for it—Daniel Cooperrider’s new book is an exquisite gift.
This is a “let us slow down” book, Cooperrider begins, quoting Nigerian theologian Bayo Akomolafe:
Let us slow down, lest whatever spiritual, theological thinking or liturgical, ritual meaning-making we do risks re-inscribing the goofy and fateful human-nature divide that stupefies us and severs us from the rest of life. This is a let-your-hair-down book; a take-off-your-shoes-and-feel-your-feet-on-the-cool-moss book; a go-outside-no-matter-the-weather book; a stop-whatever-you’re-doing-now-and-look-at-the-clouds book.
