Hundred Years of Listening – Letters to My Daughter              is a deeply personal meditation on fatherhood and the fragile beauty of our ravaged Earth. Set against the ongoing, slow dying of the Oslo Fjord – a place my daughter and I call home – A Hundred Years of Listening wrestles with the impossible: how do we carry our existential grief for a vanishing world while still nurturing wonder, love, and glimmers of concrete and practical hope? As the book slowly unfolds, my letters become a meditation over the essence of what connects us to life itself. In my search to understand organic reality and the source of aliveness, I discover the child as a mirror of the world and the world as child to itself – both fragile, both infinite, both in need of care. I offer not just a father’s voice but a tender listening that invites us all to radically reimagine what it means to live in kinship with a breathing, aching Earth.

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    The book is revelatory in its careful balancing between the soft intimacies of fatherhood, the brutalities of a fjord dying in real-time, and the poetic, loving attention to the myriad ways in which this world still births new aliveness. The book is a deeply grounded practice in what David Abram calls an ‘earthly cosmology’, an understanding of the world not as a machine but as a living, relational web of beings, rhythms, and voices. ​