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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: Having Faith, Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Chicago, Environment, Food, 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 […]

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

Of Lists and Learning

March 18, 2007

At their best, the lists are intended to be guiding abstractions of something deeper and much more complex than any list: the collected wisdom and practice of a whole community, whether of mathematicians, writers, historians, or scientists. That knowledge is fully present only in the community itself, and distilling it into a list is a deeply self-reflective exercise for practitioners in any field of human activity.

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Shelved with: Education|| Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Community of Practice, Education, Homeschool, Parenting, Standards, Lists
By CircleReader 3 Comments

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