The Book Drive
- Sarah Spring
- Jul 7, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 2, 2023
In which Sarah and Lebo sit in the car and chat about what they've been reading..
In this episode of the podcast, we introduce a segment called The Book Drive. This week we discuss trees, suffering and family habits.
All resources mentioned in this episode are in The Hive
Podcast music composed by Lukas Knaup
@Sarah Spring, I love the quotes you gave from The Overstory. I went and looked on Goodreads and found this quote. 😍
“The Greeks had a word, xenia—guest friendship—a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God. Ovid tells the story of two immortals who came to Earth in disguise to cleanse the sickened world. No one would let them in but one old couple, Baucis and Philemon. And their reward for opening their door to strangers was to live on after death as trees—an oak and a linden—huge and gracious and intertwined. What we care for, we will gro…