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And I found the idea of the aramisine and just sort of investigating loneliness to be something that could actually be a helpful tool because if you're lonely for something, if you're

longing for it, it's actually sort of a way of knowing what you wish was present near you, you know,

what you would love to be around. And for me, that kind of reframed ideas of ecological

grief instead of something as like finite to something that was a relationship that could be negotiated.

You're listening to Green Dreamer and I'm your host, Kamehashane.

Today we are speaking with Laura Murris, a writer and translator and the author of The Age of Loneliness,

which is a moving examination of the dangers of loneliness, the surprising histories of ecological loss,

and the ways that community science can help us to recognize and maybe even recover what we've

learned to live without.

The arremicine means the age of loneliness and it was coined by Eio Wilson and it really

Eremos is from Greek, the kind of root word of aramecine.

And it can mean a lonely person, but it can also mean a kind of desolate place.

And so for me, that overlap between person and place was something that became really sticky about the term.

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