The stories we tell preserve our collective human memory—but we’re also part of a profound connection steadfastly held by the natural world. Host Jacqueline Comito ponders this wondrous web, as well as her relationship with some of its tinier residents, as we open Season 2 of the podcast.

Mentioned in today’s episode:

• Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.
• Elie Wiesel, “Hope, despair and memory,” 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 11, 1986. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/lecture/
• Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (L. A. Coser, Ed.), University of Chicago Press, 1992.
• Richard Powers, The Overst ...