Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Impermanence is written into creation, an ongoing process of unfolding since the igniting of the Big Bang. We are all in that process. It is dynamic, vibrant, fecund. We experience impermanence in a profound way here in the northern hemisphere at this time of year. Darkness fills more [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Anybody? All that saturation coverage in the mainstream news, right? I mean, we sure have a lot of time and space in the news for the sentencing of Michael Jackson’s doctor, but the UN climate conference? Who cares, really… It’s not as if anything much will come out [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Think of iconic images like the crack in the cement from which a dandelion emerges, or an oak tree. Or think of the muddy little pool of water left after the rain that a frog comes to inhabit. Or the space in a park in New York that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: I know that my headlines do not always bolster my ‘ecological hope’ theme, or the fostering of it, but there it is. I still believe we have to confront reality or else our hope is based in fantasy. So Saturday, the NY Times had this amazing 3-page spread, [...]