{"id":9235,"date":"2024-05-15T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:50:40","slug":"both-are-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/both-are-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Are Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"873\" data-attachment-id=\"9257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/both-are-main\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1889%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1889,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"felixittermeier-unsplash-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?fit=644%2C873&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1.jpg?resize=644%2C873&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=644%2C873&amp;ssl=1 644w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1041&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1133%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1511%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1511w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?w=1889&amp;ssl=1 1889w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@felix_mittermeier?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Felix Mittermeier<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/green-tree-during-daytime-Xk0DZSYv1ao?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I finished reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/91274427\">Michiko Aoyama&#8217;s <em>What You Are Looking For Is In the Library<\/em> (2020)<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, just as we in SW Virginia were crossing over into regreening season. The book was a rewarding digression at the end of an otherwise steeply-stepped semester, steep due in part to a heavy reading load for an awards committee I agreed to serve on, and due in part to the added-on role of interim PhD program director, a &#8216;yes&#8217; whose reassigned time pays forward in Fall 2024. Structurally, <em>What You Are&#8230;Library<\/em> is a lightly interstitched episodic, with each of the chapters following a character from their life&#8217;s path maze to a local library where an aloof but intuitive librarian abides serendipity as a finding aid for recommending books. The recommendations are usually a combination of the patron&#8217;s at-directed line of inquiry and the around-explored one-off, which, in each case, turns out to deliver greater meaning than expected. <em>WYALFIITL<\/em> was an enjoyable read, and I appreciated especially the hodology of it, in that it is a pathfinding book whose characters are on mundane journey&#8217;s, negotiating the small uncertainties that come with career paths and life&#8217;s choices. She also felts small gifts, handing them off as pin-crafted tokens; each of these elicits added meaning, as the wayfinding plays out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t have an immediate, obvious connection in mind bridging this passage to anything I am working on, but in this excerpt, Aoyama captures the interwined character\u2014for plants\u2014of the aboveground and belowground. I was reminded of it while at Compost Fest a couple of weeks ago. While on the native plants tour, the guide said something like, &#8220;Trees are people, too.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t such an outlandish or unexpected humanistic refrain, and yet with this passage from Aoyama in mind, we have what we need to fathom trees as more-than-human:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third chapter is entitled &#8220;Below the Ground,&#8221; with subsections such as How do worms work? Where do roots grow? How much of a plant is in its roots? I find this chapter deeply fascinating. As I gaze at an illustration of a tree and its root system, with the earth the dividing line between what is above and what lies below, I am struck by a thought: most of the time we humans only look at the flowers or fruit of a plant, because we live aboveground. We switch our attention to belowground only when the roots have a particular interest for us, as in the case of sweet potatoes or carrots. Yet from a plant&#8217;s perspective, aboveground and belowground are equally important and in perfect balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humans only see what suits them most, and make that their main focus, but for plants&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Both are main. <\/em><\/p>\n<cite>Michiko Aoyama, <em>What You Are Looking For Is In the Library<\/em> (2020), p. 95-96<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>I finished reading Michiko Aoyama&#8217;s What You Are Looking For Is In the Library (2020) a couple of weeks ago, just as we in SW Virginia were crossing over into regreening season. The book was a rewarding digression at the end of an otherwise steeply-stepped semester, steep due in part to a heavy reading load&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[162,167],"tags":[3475,3476,3477,674,571,3041,3474,2566],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ground_swell","category-reading_notes","tag-above","tag-below","tag-compost","tag-ground","tag-library","tag-plants","tag-roots","tag-trees"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Both Are Main - Earth Wide Moth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/both-are-main\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Both Are Main - Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  2 minsI finished reading Michiko Aoyama&#8217;s What You Are Looking For Is In the Library (2020) a couple of weeks ago, just as we in SW Virginia were crossing over into regreening season. 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