I want to pick up where I left off last week before I move on. A few weeks back, when I sketched out the future trajectory of this writing project, I wrote that I saw Odell and Robin Wall Kimmerer as connected to each other with respect to the power of attention. Elaborating that connection is going to take some time, as the insights in Kimmerer are somewhat diffuse, and I didn’t take particularly good notes as I was reading it. Nevertheless, I think it is important, so I will certainly be taking my time to process Kimmerer’s insights. And of course, it should be noted that Odell explicitly refers to Kimmerer as an inspiration, so I’m confident that teasing this connection out will be fruitful. And I will certainly be coming back to Odell more than just today—I had forgotten how important How to Do Nothing was for me actually, and I think it will be well worth revisiting to summarize chapter by chapter so that I always have the material on hand.