Visiting a clear-cut generates bodily grief that demands honest confrontation.

Evidence

I rationalize my nausea as vertigo from the precipitous roads, the cold sweat as anxiety about oncoming log trucks. But I knew it was fear and the presence of violence around every turn. And grief, grief that rises up from the stumps and soaks into our skin. … It’s a scene we all want to turn away from, but we had better look at the consequences of what we choose. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 575

Categorization

• XREF: Body-as-instrument observation braided into the landscape course’s listening/observation-as-method; grief-as-data parallel to soundscape methods. — connects to: Truth depends on patient lingering with the particular rather than violent short cuts — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 87

Broader Connections

• Truth depends on patient lingering with the particular rather than violent short cuts #qualifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 87