Protected by a Child
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.
Learn MoreSacrifices 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?
Learn MoreDo 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 […]
Learn MoreA 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 […]
Learn MoreBeowulf Live: Reclaiming the Classics on WPR
We got to listen to Grendel gorging flesh and griding bone in the mini-van on the way home from church today…
Learn MoreThe Story of the Flood – Disaster and Hope on the Horizon
Stories are always told in specific historical contexts, but the human condition always brings us back to recurring issues, thus: Teatro La Fragua used “neo-medieval post-modernism” to stage the story of Noah and the Great Flood in a relief shelter after Hurricane Mitch, and Paul Chan is staging Waiting for Godot in the Lower Ninth […]
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