Posts Tagged ‘inspiration and reflection’

On diminishment

Posted September 15th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
What a remarkable couple of weeks since I last posted. Drawing close to the dying and death of a loved one is a life-changing experience. How can it not be?
Especially in such a death-denying culture as this one?
When my Father died 20 years ago, my family first encountered home hospice. [...]

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The death of my Mother

Posted September 2nd, 2008 in Blog 7 Comments

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
You have always wanted more than the earth;
now you have it. You turn to the young.
They do not understand.
William Stafford
Well, friends, nothing like death to immerse us into the mysteries of Creation. I moved back to Wisconsin to be close to my Mother as she moved into the culmination of [...]

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What are we doing to our children?

Posted July 31st, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If we could see the crisis time from the perspective of the children, would that change things? If we project current trends into the next few decades, say to mid-century when there will be 2-3 billion more of us on an already over-stressed planet, you know, when our small [...]

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Back in the fray

Posted July 27th, 2008 in Blog 1 Comment

Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Okay, back from a two-week stint in California, and I have a lot on my mind. A blog is a short opinionated series of posts, and everything I want to talk about is, well, not short. One day soon, there will be the website and then we can [...]

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