Thanks for the walking tip! Ahhhhh, relationship to place. I get that so much. For the last 10 years I’ve been walking at the same place, the same county park, every morning with my camera. Sometimes I wonder why I’m not more adventurous, why I don’t go to other places. But it is a rooting, a grounding, and it is a place that absolutely holds me in the most challenging times. I need to think about that a little more this week! Summer is when I’m there the least, because it’s hot, Sunrise is so early and there’s too many people. I really look forward to fall when everyone goes back to school and work and forgets about the little park in the lake.
Hey Janisse, Have you read Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns about The Great Migration? I am just finishing it. I ordered both books you mentioned. Can't wait to read them!
This is the line I love most out of so many lines worth loving: "Bitterweed is for southern Georgia as heather is to Scotland, and I feel something ancient and ancestral when I look out over the yellow washes."
Ancient and ancestral. Yes. That is exactly how I feel when all the camas is in bloom in Packer Meadow up atop Lolo Pass. How I feel when the bitterroot blooms up and down the valley, or all over the rolling hills of the Bison Range on the reservation. Ancient, ancestral, aware of us, and waiting for us to come to our fucking senses.
It is a joy to reconnect with you, one of my favorite Georgia authors. I appreciate so very much your contributions to ecological integrity and especially your thoughts on ethics and how ethical considerations are essential for life styles that reflect sound stewardship.
I have not taught ethics at the college level for 21 years. For that reason I am hesitant to recommend a general introductory text on that subject. However, with your permission, I’d like to send you a couple of books that might be of interest. They are actually complimentary copies I received during my classroom years and are not among the most recent publications. One is entitled THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT ETHICAL ISSUES and provides a good overview of how one may think about and choose to address ethical issues. The other should be of special interest to you since you could very well have contributed material for this book. It is entitled ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
Unfortunately, during the years I taught, the various ethics textbooks did not include a focus on environmental ethics, except for a chapter on animal rights.
Just give me the word, and I’ll be happy to mail you these books.
Or perhaps, if you have not already lied to your children about the cereal, or even if you have, enlist them in the fight against the Madison Avenue Big Liars. Do an experiment and make them part of it. Let them know, that some days the cereal in the Fruit Loops box will be the real thing and that some days it will be the store brand. Ask them to let you know when they can tell the difference. Also teach them about how manipulative all that advertising is and how to resist it. And, The Barefoot Ethicist is right, oatmeal, and maybe some homemade granola every now and then, is better.
Having taught ethics at the college level, I genuinely appreciate your comments about total honesty. It is a virtue that has become an endangered species.
It seems important to me that you show up over and over for the same place. I think there's a beautiful story in that.
Thanks for the walking tip! Ahhhhh, relationship to place. I get that so much. For the last 10 years I’ve been walking at the same place, the same county park, every morning with my camera. Sometimes I wonder why I’m not more adventurous, why I don’t go to other places. But it is a rooting, a grounding, and it is a place that absolutely holds me in the most challenging times. I need to think about that a little more this week! Summer is when I’m there the least, because it’s hot, Sunrise is so early and there’s too many people. I really look forward to fall when everyone goes back to school and work and forgets about the little park in the lake.
You're so wise. I like very much the part about asking the children if they can tell the difference.
John, I'll be in touch privately.
Ray, I hope this brings even a tiny amount of joy & hope to your world. Thank you for listening to the land.
I enjoyed reading this edition. It was my first.
Hey Janisse, Have you read Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns about The Great Migration? I am just finishing it. I ordered both books you mentioned. Can't wait to read them!
This is the line I love most out of so many lines worth loving: "Bitterweed is for southern Georgia as heather is to Scotland, and I feel something ancient and ancestral when I look out over the yellow washes."
Ancient and ancestral. Yes. That is exactly how I feel when all the camas is in bloom in Packer Meadow up atop Lolo Pass. How I feel when the bitterroot blooms up and down the valley, or all over the rolling hills of the Bison Range on the reservation. Ancient, ancestral, aware of us, and waiting for us to come to our fucking senses.
Greetings, Janisse,
It is a joy to reconnect with you, one of my favorite Georgia authors. I appreciate so very much your contributions to ecological integrity and especially your thoughts on ethics and how ethical considerations are essential for life styles that reflect sound stewardship.
I have not taught ethics at the college level for 21 years. For that reason I am hesitant to recommend a general introductory text on that subject. However, with your permission, I’d like to send you a couple of books that might be of interest. They are actually complimentary copies I received during my classroom years and are not among the most recent publications. One is entitled THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT ETHICAL ISSUES and provides a good overview of how one may think about and choose to address ethical issues. The other should be of special interest to you since you could very well have contributed material for this book. It is entitled ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
Unfortunately, during the years I taught, the various ethics textbooks did not include a focus on environmental ethics, except for a chapter on animal rights.
Just give me the word, and I’ll be happy to mail you these books.
Kindest regards,
John
Or perhaps, if you have not already lied to your children about the cereal, or even if you have, enlist them in the fight against the Madison Avenue Big Liars. Do an experiment and make them part of it. Let them know, that some days the cereal in the Fruit Loops box will be the real thing and that some days it will be the store brand. Ask them to let you know when they can tell the difference. Also teach them about how manipulative all that advertising is and how to resist it. And, The Barefoot Ethicist is right, oatmeal, and maybe some homemade granola every now and then, is better.
Having taught ethics at the college level, I genuinely appreciate your comments about total honesty. It is a virtue that has become an endangered species.
Thanks for all your thoughts that keep us thinking!