Climate Change and Consciousness: Now is our time! Editor’s column by Jennifer Browdy
This special edition of Fired Up! will energize and inspire you. And there’s much more coming up!
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Rain on the River & Take It Home, two songs by Fiora Laina
Why do you poison the river, children?
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Climate Change & Consciousness Community Reading, Deb Koffman’s Artspace, Housatonic MA, April 16, 2019
A paean to climate change & consciousness, in a multitude of voices.
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Beyond Hope or Despair, by Judy Fox
Although the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, I can’t stop responding. It’s beyond reason, beyond emotion, beyond hope or despair.
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Bottled Up: A Parable in Plastic, by Anni Crofut Maliki
In this climate, even a plastic water bottle has the power to divide.
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Blood and Milk, by Mary Kate Jordan
Today I know a deep and everlasting love both for Kay, my milk mother, and for my blood mother, Marie. I wouldn’t be here without both of them. Although they’re gone now, together, they’re alive in me.
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Outcast, by Rose Oliver
This is not my home.
No boundaries contain me,
I go where I’m not wanted,
wipe my feet on the
the unwelcome mat.
Visitation, by Adrian Dunn
On a lone and silent hill, by Geraldine Sinyuy
Nature is crippled in our city.
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Remember the Great Flood, by Stewart Mintzer
when God, he of the Name unspoken got tired of all the lies, got tired of the half hearted promises to save the trees, mow the lawn, stop sneaking cookies and slinking to images of cheap thrills to get through the night, so he decided to begin again...
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An excerpt from SLIPPER, by Hester Velmans
SLIPPER is the story of a poor orphaned stepchild, a would-be princess, whose search for one true love or another takes her all over 17th century England, France and the Low Countries. Born under mysterious circumstances, she grows up to be a dreamer, a cinder sweep, a runaway, a camp follower, a kisser of frogs, a beggar, a thief, a mother and an artist. Along the way she learns what to do about men. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that her life is a fairy tale come true.
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Can a Tree Teach Race Relations? Magnolia Justice, by Jana Laiz
I often dream entire passages or lines for books I’m writing and one night, I woke with this line, “I remember the Winter long ago, the one that lingered like regret.” I had to rustle around in my bedside table to find paper and pen to write it down. When your dreams offer you lines like that, you don’t say no. Later that same day, my husband came into my office and said, “You should write a story about a lynching tree from the point of view of the tree.”
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Climate PSAs, by Susan Spiegel Solovay
There’s something you can do!
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Letter to the Earth, by Anne Legêne
O Earth, I am of thee….
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Little Insignificant Things, by Deb Koffman
Little insignificant things can actually make a BIG difference.
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