Portholes – Anna Badkhen

What can we learn from imprints in the earth about the ancient
presences that left them behind? Acclaimed author Anna Badkhen
traces markers left in the earth from the near and distant past,
from the buffalo wallows of North America to the treasure-hiding
game sekretiki she played as a child, from the histories held in
whale earwax to the map of our human becoming in the Bouri
Peninsula of modern-day Ethiopia. Reading each of these imprints as
a kind of porthole—a window into memory, with all the retellings
and reinterpretations characteristic of our messy, continual search
for meaning—Anna wonders what lineage of impressions we might leave
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