Loving the Unlikable: Grateful for Kith & Kin

I had no idea what “kith” meant, so I figured I should start there—because I bet I’m not alone. Lyanda Lynn Haupt, in Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit, writes: “Where kin are relations of kind, kith is relationship based on knowledge of place—the close landscape, ‘one’s square mile,’ where each […]