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Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

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 […]

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

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 […]

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

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

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.

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

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