Currently— April 25th, 2022
What you need to know, currently.
We are living in some very overwhelming times. At any given moment of the day you might find yourself resisting the urge to sit still; somewhere there’s a fire asking to be put out.
— Currently (@currently) April 24, 2022
But you, like the sun, are also a fire that must be tended to.https://t.co/bA0s0ofUbH
In a personal essay, Currently’s managing editor Zaria Howell writes about how the Earth and our own healing are intrinsically connected. Zaria is an environmental journalist— but focused on wellness and mental health— she is also pursuing a Masters in Social Work at Columbia University.
In the summer of 2021 Zaria spent two months living and working on a farm, the experience changed how she views taking care of her own body and mind.
She writes, “And so, perhaps now more than ever, is time for us, as a collective, to decide what environmental consciousness means and looks like to us, for it’s clear we’ve become disconnected from the life force energy that binds us to our environment.”
Read more of Zaria’s essay Nature as Healing online.
Zaria Howell