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Protected by a Child

March 2, 2008

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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.

Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Parenting|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Alaska, Environment, Food, Illinois, Parenting, Pregnancy, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Snow
By nicole 2 Comments

Sacrifices and Community

February 24, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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?

Shelved with: Reading the Land|| Science & Technology
Tagged With: Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Sandra Steingraber, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin
By nicole 1 Comment

Do you breathe the water?

February 10, 2008

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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 […]

Shelved with: Biology|| Mind & Society|| Reading the Land|| Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Chicago, Environment, Food, Having Faith, Parenting, Pregnancy, Sandra Steingraber, Scleroderma, Water
By nicole 3 Comments

A Good Day for the Beginnings of Journeys

January 27, 2008

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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 […]

Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Parenting|| Reading the Land
Tagged With: Book Clubs, Environment, Having Faith, Parenting, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber
By nicole 7 Comments

What Are Blogs? Not Monologues but Conversations

January 20, 2008

Perhaps the best thing about the web, and the blogosphere in particular, is that it enables you to connect with like-minded people you might never meet otherwise. –Kriss M. at Circle M Farm On January 27th, 2008, Reading Circle Books will host its first group! In her wonderful invitation to our first Reading Circle, Kriss […]

Shelved with: RCB|| Science & Technology|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Community, Digital Literacy, Education, RCB, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber, Timothy Tyson
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Our first Reading Circle!

January 15, 2008

Kriss over at Circle M Farm suggested Having Faith after reading author Sandra Steingraber’s earlier book, Living Downstream. We’ll be reading it together beginning in January, 2008, with Nicole Five Pennies as our host. So go look up Kris’ wonderful invitation to read together, get your copy (the little blue box by the title will […]

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Tagged With: Book Clubs, Environment, Having Faith, Reading Circles, Sandra Steingraber
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