Posted September 15th, 2008 in
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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. [...]
Tags: consumer culture, death and dying, deep ecology, denial of death, diminishment of earth, earth spirituality, ecological hope, home hospice, inspiration and reflection, regeneration of life, spirituality of dying
Posted September 2nd, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: circle of life, death and creation, deep ecology, earth spirituality, home hospice, inspiration and reflection, mysteries of creation
Posted July 31st, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: consumer culture, earth spirituality, ecological hope, inspiration and reflection
Posted July 27th, 2008 in
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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 [...]
Tags: climate change, earth spirituality, ecological hope, environmental disasters, inspiration and reflection, justice