As I struggle to live a more enchanted and animistic life, and to nurture those innate tendencies in my young son, I find the two things that trip me up the most are the automatic use of "it" to refer to nonhumans (he/she is only slightly better but not always applicable) and not knowing how to talk about death in ways that aren't completely disenchanted and mechanistic (we found a dead snake yesterday in the woods). Any ideas?
