Climate Change
A Walk in the Woods With My Brain on Fire: Spring
The season might reveal its healing powers and generosity if you look up.
PLEASANT VALLEY, Mass.—Two visits to this wildlife sanctuary. One week apart. I came to report the arrival of spring, an under-covered story. In the hope, too, that the new season might extinguish the fire in my brain, ablaze in the Anthropocene: The accelerating heat with its cascading catastrophes; the barbaric wars with their crimes against humanity; scorching hatreds shared instantly everywhere. Our raging modern inferno.