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I am making a list of everything I need to tell you. It is long— about pinnipeds and the things people glue to them. How fat is life for them. How they sleep while drifting, just like I would if I could dive to a thousand feet, holding my breath effortlessly. How their little black boxes five-minute-epoxied onto their heads tell us things. Vital things: Where the Blob came from, that shocking warm mass out in the Pacific. What is happening in secret under the ice to the heart of the ocean. But writing is grieving. Every sentence is the death of another there’s no room for.
Kate Golden is a Sacramento-based science journalist and a contributing writer at Sierra Magazine. She is a watercolor painter, breast cancer survivor, and keen fisherwoman, and she is writing a book about living on a small boat in the South Pacific. Find her on IG/Twitter: @meownderthal.
