by Beth Alderman | Feb 16, 2021 | The Loving Earth
“Oh Canada… part of you pours out of me In these lines from time to time, Oh, you’re in my blood like holy wine” – Joni Mitchell The vision of a Doctors of Life International group that would comprise counselors for care and cure of habitat...
by Beth Alderman | Feb 9, 2021 | The Loving Earth
“The cure for soul loss is in the mist of morning, the grass that grew a little through the night, the first warmth of the morning’s sunlight… walking in a world infused with intelligence and spirit.” – Linda Hogan, The Radiant Lives of Animals In...
by Beth Alderman | Feb 5, 2021 | How Do I Love Thee?
I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning In Plants, People, Planet, Stevenson et al. reflect on efforts to plan urban ecosystems, and conclude that: “Ultimately, multiple ecosystem services...
by Beth Alderman | Jan 29, 2021 | Wider Circles
“Lead pollution levels from the Middle Ages preserved in an ice core taken from the Colle Gnifetti glacier in the Swiss Alps reflect political upheaval in England. [When] a new monarch was secure, there were usually major building projects [that] produced more...
by Beth Alderman | Jan 29, 2021 | Wider Circles
“We are moving in wider circles, we are opening our circle.” – Rising Appalachia When the two sisters who comprise Rising Appalachia sing their song “Wider Circles,” they speak of starting from the center and moving outward, and trace with their...
by Beth Alderman | Jan 23, 2021 | How Do I Love Thee?
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love the with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning You probably know someone who you kept intending to...
