Here are some ideas that resonated with me this week:
- I think Dr. Martin Shaw is an interesting man to listen to. As a mythologist, ancient stories are woven into his words to help bring understanding. He thinks that “Climate change isn’t a case to be made, it’s a sound to be heard.” Are we listening?
- Vancouver was listening in 2010 when it made a bold statement to become the greenest city in the world. What happened?
- Are you listening? Do you hear the birds? There may be more of them, or just more people looking and listening for them.
- Perhaps it is time to do more than listen. Dr. Katherine Hayhoe tells us that when we take action, no matter how small it seems to us, it is more likely that others around us will take action too. Time to get started.
- We know we need to make changes. What does it mean to have a 1.5 degree lifestyle?
- Is xeriscaping one answer to making small changes?
SOMETIMES
by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions
that have no right
to go away.
Interlude
The Elephant’s Song – Lynn Tomlinson