The Art of Reconnection: Daniela Naomi Molnar and Marcia Bjornerud
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Daniela Naomi Molnar interviews Marcia Bjornerud about the wisdom of rocks and the narratives of time in geology.
In part two of "The Art of Reconnection," series co-host Daniela Naomi Molnar speaks with guest Marcia Bjornerud about the narratives, notions of time, and deep wisdom embedded within rocks. Marcia is a writer and a structural geologist whose scientific research, which focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, has taken her around the globe. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and the LA Times. She is also the author of the books "Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World" and the recently published "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks." Throughout Marcia's scientific and academic career, she has learned to listen to landscapes. She and Daniela discuss how the Western fallacies of objectivity and stability may act as a barrier to our innate capacity to notice landscapes not only with our instruments and hypotheses but also with our senses, our lived experiences, and our inherent curiosities. Daniela is a poet, artist, and writer who creates with color, water, language, and place. She makes large-scale abstract paintings with pigments she creates from plants, bones, stones…
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