Ask the Author: Janisse Ray
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Janisse Ray
The layers of inhabitation of the place I live, from long-ago Native people to now.
Janisse Ray
Hi Donna. The single thing we have to fix is our atmosphere, because climate disruption is catastrophic. I only wish I had the power. Let me know if you want me to say more about this. Thank you for caring.
Janisse Ray
The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane. A book of short stories by Rick Bass called For a Little While. The new book by Chelsea Green Publishing on the coronavirus. Corona: False Alarm? Anything I can get on ancestral healing. Anything on collective trauma. Poetry by friends. All We Can Save anthology, everything by women climate leaders.
Janisse Ray
The wildfires in Australia, California, and so many other places are the biggest horror story I know. Think about all those homeless climate refugees.
Janisse Ray
I don't know the exact location, but I would go far, far back to Celtic times in Scotland.
Janisse Ray
My most recent book is about seed diversity. I've been a gardener since I was 12 & for most of that time have been interested in seed-saving. I got the idea while decompressing and grounding in my garden.
Janisse Ray
Show up at the desk.
Janisse Ray
Living a dream.
Janisse Ray
I have no answers for this, because I have it constantly and it has never stopped me. I think dreaming helps, sleeping helps, walking helps, eating well helps. It helps to have enough money in the bank & also toss aside all the worries you can.
Janisse Ray
A novel, believe it or not.
Janisse Ray
I don't have to get inspired to write. I write daily. My only challenge is keeping everything else pushed away so that I spend time at my desk every. single. day.
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