About Maud Newton
Welcome to Meditations on Kinship
This newsletter meditates on kinship of all kinds.
In keeping with my book, Ancestor Trouble, it’s concerned with family history, mental health, generational trauma, reverberations of harm, and spiritual practices around ancestors and our alienation from those practices in much of the Western world. Beyond family, Meditations on Kinship invites readers to consider other kinds of relations, including our connection with the earth, our most foundational ancestor.
I’m Maud Newton, a writer, critic, amateur genealogist, and native woodland restoration practitioner. I believe in the power of acknowledging troubled family histories honestly, open-heartedly, and with imagination. And I believe in seeking a more caring, connective way forward, even in times like these, when (for me at least) fear, sadness, and anger are easier to come by.