Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people in present-day, Marin County.

Each week, we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

As new ways of being in relationship with the living world begin to find form.

We must be careful not to fall into past patterns of defining the Earth on our own human terms.

What about the Earth's own ways of communicating?

What of her own agency, her own story.

Perhaps through labor, love, and listening,

we can learn patience and commitment and our exchanges with the earth.

In this week's story, author Elizabeth Rush takes us to the collapsing face of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica,

as she works to free the ISIS agency from both historical tropes and the confines of her own preconceptions.

Contemplating the ways our future is increasingly entangled with that of the glacier,

Elizabeth listens for the voice present there, anticipating a quick kinship.

But as she recognizes the importance of time,

ribbons, reams, centuries,

a millennia of temporal investment,

in attuning oneself to the Earth's responses, she surrenders to the slow, unfolding conversation

between humans and the more human world. In January of 2019, 57 people gather in the low-slung port town of Punta Arenas, Chile.

We are sedimentologists and ship captains, radio reporters and

electricians, marine mammal specialists, and submarine technicians. The members of the first

shipbound expedition to Thwait's glacier. Everything we do on our last night on solid earth anticipates what we will soon be

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