The Language of Rain

I am once again blown away by the beautiful prose of Wajã Xipai, a young Indigenous writer from a small Yupá village in the Amazon. Here he writes about the language and intimacy of Forest-rain as a forgotten miracle that we must pause to un-forget "because forgetting such beauty is deadly." Then as I switch from poetry to science, which are often indistinguishable to me, I read about a new study…