Noah has a wild-eyed urgency about him. Everything is an emergency. He knows about the earth. These days, kids learn words like extinct and endangered earlier than they used to. He wants to see everything before it’s too late. My son, wanting to race death. It almost feels like he knows about me, somehow. Every time he says “before it’s too late” and “while we still can,” I feel the lump in my chest and fear my own personal extinction.
