So well expressed, Gretta. Thank you for pointing out the ELEPHANT that we ignore because we don't know what to do about elephants, hoping that the experts or government or God will tame the beast. I tell whoever will listen that we experience climate anxiety and despair for a reason: that we do something about it. I want to yell, "Forget the price of gasoline. It's the CLIMATE stupid." But I know yelling is the end of conversation, and conversation is part of the solution. As for hope, I hope you keep on writing.
Thank you so much, Dennis. For your comments, your yelling when you are not able to stifle it, and for the potential for engagement you must create when you simply share your love for this place we know as our only home.
Thanks for writing this Gretta. You are grappling with things that ring a bell for me.
I've tried to maintain sanity and find paths to vitality and joy despite concluding more than 40 years ago that human civilization and much of the biosphere were doomed. I'm grateful to have been born in Canada (in Kingston! just one year before you!) in 1957 and to have lived in a relatively stable and prosperous country for the past 67 years.
In 2001, I stumbled back into my family's United Church, and I was thrilled to find a useful thread in the "Good News" -- that a new life closer to Love might flow from death. I'm sad and frustrated that virtually no one in the UCC agrees; and yet I still see it there. Some of this is captured in my blogs -- https://wayofcrossucc.wordpress.com/ -- and https://mwucsermons.wordpress.com/.
Have you encountered the late Rev. Michael Dowd's work at postdoom.com? The Team there continues to follow his compost theology and his attempts live well despite the insanity and destruction raging all around us.
I wish you well as you work with others to find ways to stumble forward -- not with hope or fear; but with awareness and gratitude.
Thank you, Paul. I think of you often and hope you are well. Your gifts to the wider community will have been felt by so many in need over your many years of leadership.
So well expressed, Gretta. Thank you for pointing out the ELEPHANT that we ignore because we don't know what to do about elephants, hoping that the experts or government or God will tame the beast. I tell whoever will listen that we experience climate anxiety and despair for a reason: that we do something about it. I want to yell, "Forget the price of gasoline. It's the CLIMATE stupid." But I know yelling is the end of conversation, and conversation is part of the solution. As for hope, I hope you keep on writing.
Thank you so much, Dennis. For your comments, your yelling when you are not able to stifle it, and for the potential for engagement you must create when you simply share your love for this place we know as our only home.
Thanks for writing this Gretta. You are grappling with things that ring a bell for me.
I've tried to maintain sanity and find paths to vitality and joy despite concluding more than 40 years ago that human civilization and much of the biosphere were doomed. I'm grateful to have been born in Canada (in Kingston! just one year before you!) in 1957 and to have lived in a relatively stable and prosperous country for the past 67 years.
In 2001, I stumbled back into my family's United Church, and I was thrilled to find a useful thread in the "Good News" -- that a new life closer to Love might flow from death. I'm sad and frustrated that virtually no one in the UCC agrees; and yet I still see it there. Some of this is captured in my blogs -- https://wayofcrossucc.wordpress.com/ -- and https://mwucsermons.wordpress.com/.
Have you encountered the late Rev. Michael Dowd's work at postdoom.com? The Team there continues to follow his compost theology and his attempts live well despite the insanity and destruction raging all around us.
I wish you well as you work with others to find ways to stumble forward -- not with hope or fear; but with awareness and gratitude.
May love surround you as I reach to hold your hand.
Thank you, Anne Marie. May the light follow you through this season of darkness.
Your words are a release for me Gretta.
Be well.
Paul Tuttle
Thank you, Paul. I think of you often and hope you are well. Your gifts to the wider community will have been felt by so many in need over your many years of leadership.