Why am I passionate about this?
Iāve been writing comics and graphic novels for over twenty years. Many of my stories feature superheroes you probably know: in 2000, for example, I became the first woman to launch and write a Batman comic series. Lately, though, Iāve been worrying that the framework of superhero storiesāthe idea that someone with uncommon power or skills will come to save us from a threat not of our own makingāis inadequate in the face of global warming. The climate crisis is a problem we created, and can only address, together. I wrote Rewild to explore those concerns, and to call forth a new kind of hero: you.
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Why did Devin love this book?
I was fortunate enough to see Joanna Macy speak at Spirit Rock with my mom back in 2015. She warned us away from the āditches of paralysis and panic,ā which were the exact things I found myself stuck in after completing my book in 2021. Macy is so many thingsāan activist, a translator of Rilke, a Buddhist scholar, a moving speaker, a mother, a teacherāand this book, created in celebration of her ninetieth birthday, is a lovely introduction to her writing and that of those sheās inspired. I felt so grateful to discover it and be reminded of something else Macy told us that day: that by tapping into our deeper āecological selvesā we can feel supported by this planet we belong to even as we work to save it.
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Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology whose decades of writing, teaching, and activism have inspired people around the world. In this collection of writings, leading spiritual teachers, deep ecologists, and diverse writers and activists explore the major facets of Macyās lifework. Combined with eleven pieces from Macy herself, the result is a rich chorus of wisdom and compassion to support the work of our time.
āBeing fully present to fear, to gratitude, to all that isāthis is the practice of mutual belonging. As living members of the living body of Earth, we are groundedā¦