Finished Reading (2023): Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth by Jennifer Banks 📚

An excellent biographical-philosophical flyover and a much needed spark to shift our thinking. There’s definitely room for her “Philosophy of Birth” to grow.

Each person, in simply being born, creates an opportunity for history to begin again. … We are more than history’s byproducts; we are instead creative participants in history, nature, and time. A human is born a tiny, infinitesimal piece of some massive whole, but that macrocosm is not impervious to the smallness of our individual births.