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By Nancy Myers My granddaughter, born in the summer of the great Gulf gusher, faces a tumultuous world. I do not know what the world will look like when she is my age. Dianne Dumanoski’s latest book, The End of the Long Summer, begins with this paragraph: The future in the modern imagination has always stretched [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger “But a renaissance, a rebirth occurs not just because there is a rising of images and archetypal symbols. A renaissance happens because the soul is breached, the psyche unlocked, and a flood of new questions are released as to who we are and what we contain.” Jean Houston “Only [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger On the morning of August 11th, 2010 residents in Ames Iowa were awakened by a robo-call from the city. “Prepare for unprecedented flooding. Move to high ground. “ Squaw Creek and the Skunk River rose to heights never before seen, even in the disastrous floods of 1993. Soon all [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger A quiet, ordinary canary, an older female named Vida had sent many of her brood into the mines. She had had enough. “What”, she thought,” can I do to stop sending our children into the mines to warn the miners of death? The mines themselves are death. This is [...] By Nancy Myers I’m an expectant grandmother. I feel the joy of this in my heart region, just about six inches above where I feel the pain of the ongoing hemorrhage of oil into the Gulf. Heart joy vs. sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. Contradictory but related. Warren Levy puts these together in an [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Note: This is an essay I wrote for a feature on Faith and Thought that ran in our local paper during 2007. It was originally entitled “Returning Soldier Has Much to Teach Us” and was published in Mid-Iowa News, February 2007. I was reminded of it by a recent conversation with [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Perhaps the old reductionistic, objective science is a form of autism. This is the science that promotes dissecting frogs, but not loving them enough to work to protect them. It is the science that does risk assessment on toxic chemicals and says that some childhood cancers are acceptable. It is science [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger The Obama administration is taking on a sacred cow –space missions. They want to privatize the rocket fleet and thereby reduce the costs of NASA so they can balance the federal budget. Of all the agencies that are near and dear to American’s hearts, it is NASA and their remarkable space [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger A year and a half ago I made a pilgrimage to Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico to deliver my library of Puebloan archaeology and anthropology books to the Haak’u Museum. The museum had no books and I had one of the finest collections in private hands. Since I had gotten most [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Over the years I’ve had many young people come up to me and ask how I do this environmental work without collapsing in despair. They are acutely aware of how desperate the situation is. They doubt that the rain forest or ocean or jaguar will be salvageable by the time they are able [...] |
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