
I DIDN’T MEAN TO WRITE THIS. by Susan Rukeyser
I meant to write about young environmental activist Greta Thunberg and her impact, how she was received on her recent visit to the US. I loved how uncomfortable Greta made the “grown-ups,” including me. I was dismayed and unsurprised by the sexism chucked at her like crumpled, plastic water bottles: How dare she not smile? But Greta’s visit coincided with the final stages of my divorce, and—perhaps you understand?—in that tender time, everything was metaphor. ~ I read about a funeral held for a 700-year-old Icelandic glacier which had melted to the point that it could no longer move. It…