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This week, we discuss the nonhuman point of view in Brendan Wenzel’s picture book “They All Saw a Cat” and Mary Oliver’s poem “Driving Through the Wind River Reservation: A Poem of Black Bear”. Aparna discovers magical and meddlesome eucalyptus properties and Haley shares a story from her grandfather’s childhood.

 Mentions: 

• "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate (2012)
• "Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (2017)
• "Dream Work" by Mary Oliver (1986)
• "Time is a Mother" by Ocean Vuong (2022)
• @m_d_n_f_ on Instagram 
• Austin Kleon's newsletter: https://austinkleon.com/newsletter/
• Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poem “There is a Time to Love and a Tome to Hate: a Time for Making War” from his collection “Feed the Beast” (2022)

Thank you to Pádraig Ó Tuama whose poem “The Facts of Life” inspired the title of this podcast. 

Cover image by Sanjana Kapur.