I am at a loss with what to do about my home, sick with despair. But I can't let the despair win. That's what they want; they want us to be overwhelmed and hopeless. So we have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing down the despair until it's sitting in a tight ball in in the pit of our stomach.
Category: Culture
Colors of the Wind
While the essay is a critique on the movie Pocahontas, it also served as a reflection point for me on the lessons and messages I absorbed as a child about the natural world around me, the history we were taught in schools, and how I wanted to change the way I moved through this life. I share it now, not because I am believe I am an expert in racism, anthropocentrism, or environmentalism (I am decidedly not), but as a reminder that we all have a duty to each other, the land we live on, and the more-than-humans we share the land with to unlearn the messages and lessons we grew up hearing.
...But Not With Haste 