Remie Arena

NYC based writer and artist (who loves music and walking 🕊)

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

The @NewYorker Documentary and Emergence Magazine present an @emergence_zine and @ifthenshorts film by award-winning filmmaker Jessica Bishopp. In the age of climate crisis, @pufflingfilm explores the delicate interplay between wildlife and human life.
https://t.co/pJZPSd5vMK

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

Check out my review of 'Why Fish Don't Exist' by Lulu Miller for @Orion_Magazine 🐟 !!

[Lulu Miller @lmillernpr]

Honored to be on this list alongside so many books I own and now want to own. [particularly now coveting The Language of Trees by @katieholten]. 🌳 Thank you @Orion_Magazine ! I love that you see Fishie as a work of translation/ or trying to translate. It really is!

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

My exploration of taxidermy for @Orion_Magazine examines the human longing for animal connection and the different ways we seek to capture it.

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

Taxidermy is a strange art. For some, it provides a glimpse into the animal world. For others, it is a window into the human one.

Explore the world of taxidermy art with @RemieArena and discover the different ways of mining meaning from the craft.
https://t.co/PmiIrBFpJP

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

It's art, trophy, a form of reverence, and one of dominion; @RemieArena explores the craft of taxidermy. The purpose and meaning changes by artist and collector, for some providing a glimpse into the animal world and for others a window into the human one.
https://t.co/xUR4EdZCrB

[Religion & Environment Story Project @ReligionEnviro]

This piece in @orion_magazine makes us rethink taxidermy: "The craft emulates life & necessitates death. It is in this peculiar balance and through the allure of organic materials...that the awe, wonder, & unease surrounding taxidermy is born." @RemieArena https://t.co/QVtjvxhhWZ

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

At the end of his long and imperfect life, Tolstoy looked back on what he knew to be true and what he wished he had done differently https://t.co/nQBWBfXc2u

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

Extraordinary consideration of language's influence over human pattern of thought and our relationship to the natural world.

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

In “Speaking of Nature” Robin Kimmerer considers the power of language and how it affirms or denies our kinship with the natural world.

She asks us to consider what it means to refer to other living beings as “it” rather than the kin that they are.

https://t.co/OFPeF8Ajxh

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

Essayist and novelist Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) explores wandering and walking, the ways in which movement allows you to more fully inhabit both your imagination and the extraordinary everyday of the world around you, in “Never the Same River Twice.”

https://t.co/O06hBukR89

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

Check out my addition to @Orion_Magazine's Staff Recommendations!

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

From books to fill your nightstand to activities to fill your calendar, the Orion Staff has you covered.

Which of these recommendations has piqued your interest the most?

#BookRecommendation

https://t.co/JSOekC8tiI

[Books at NYRB @NYRB_Imprints]

"The book had me on the edge of my seat like Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, but the nervous anticipation I felt was much different."

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

Virginia Frances Sterrett was 19, uncommonly gifted, and newly diagnosed with the tuberculosis that would soon kill her when she became the breadwinner for her sick mother and her sisters. She provided for the family by illustrating old French fairy tales: https://t.co/jhmKLeN2Tg

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

"The word conversation, the etymology of that word, means 'to turn with.' Whenever we’re kinning with other species or a landscape, we’re trying to adapt our own behaviors so that we can turn with the land, turn with those fellow creatures."

https://t.co/hBySDFjLGo

[Orion Magazine @Orion_Magazine]

Today, Nov. 5th, is World Tsunami Awareness Day.

Check out “The Bear God Revisited” by Emily Sekine (@emsekine) to read about impermanence, unpredictability, and disaster preparedness in Japan, a country constantly on the alert for the next great wave.

https://t.co/4n9RVbLgMS

[Remie Arena @RemieArena]

Got to meet @JoeBiden for an interview during his visit to New Orleans. Thanks @wdsu!