How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
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Protected by a Child
Posted in Having Faith, Reading Circles, Science & Technology Tagged Alaska, Environment, Food, Illinois, Parenting, Pregnancy, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Snow 2 Comments
Sacrifices and Community
Do we even know how much we’ve lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we’ve been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?
Do you breathe the water?
During my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route.
My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in the big city…isn’t as risky as you might think…. Even in the 1960s, when pollution was [...]
Posted in Having Faith, Mind & Society, Science & Technology Tagged Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Chicago, Environment, Food, Having Faith, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sandra Steingraber, Scleroderma, Water 3 Comments
Sap Moon: Truth and Autobiography
So how can I feel hopeful? I am hopeful because there are those who strive to know, who don’t give up in the face of adversity, but continue to ask questions and take hold of lessons learned in history in order to take action and move forward. I am hopeful because the power of one person may have a decisive impact, and because more than ever before in history, we are able to link these individual voices together, and really hear what they have to say, if only we will listen.
Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology Tagged Activism, Environment, Having Faith, History, Japan, Judith Helfand, Mercury, Minamata, Reading Circles, Rubella, Sandra Steingraber 1 Comment
A Good Day for the Beginnings of Journeys
I must admit that I think it a bit ironic that the maiden book discussion here at RCB is about a journey to birth. This has been a dream of my husband’s for a while, but I never thought I would be leading the first discussion!
I first began reading Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey [...]
Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology Tagged Book Clubs, Environment, Having Faith, Parenting, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber 7 Comments
