http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/03/my-grief/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Fri, 18 May 2012 22:40:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/03/my-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-800 Elizabeth Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:53:55 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=477#comment-800 Grief and pain are useful only to the extent that they galvanize us to action. If they paralyze us in hopelessness, they are our enemies and must be fought with every ounce of our emotional resources. It's a battle, to be sure, and your powerful postings help to inspire the right kind of action. Grief and pain are useful only to the extent that they galvanize us to action. If they paralyze us in hopelessness, they are our enemies and must be fought with every ounce of our emotional resources. It’s a battle, to be sure, and your powerful postings help to inspire the right kind of action.

]]> http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/03/my-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-792 Kathy Ferger Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:34:05 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=477#comment-792 Your thoughts come just the day after I watched "Exteme Ice" on PBS last night. It has fabulous but frightening photography of the glaciers in Alaska, Antartica, and Greenland, showing how fast those ice masses are melting and breaking up. I had the same reaction to that and the quote from Gelbspan -- the same gut punch of a feeling of utter failure and loss. My many gestures of conserving energy seem so trifling in the face of the forces we've unleashed and the inertia of cultural change. I'm part of that inertia: I still keep the house at 65, I still drive five to ten thousand miles a year, etc. I'm feeling I SHOULD be spending all my waking time fighting for big political changes to address global warming, yet I find an awful lot of excuses to stay in my ruts. Your thoughts come just the day after I watched “Exteme Ice” on PBS last night. It has fabulous but frightening photography of the glaciers in Alaska, Antartica, and Greenland, showing how fast those ice masses are melting and breaking up. I had the same reaction to that and the quote from Gelbspan — the same gut punch of a feeling of utter failure and loss. My many gestures of conserving energy seem so trifling in the face of the forces we’ve unleashed and the inertia of cultural change. I’m part of that inertia: I still keep the house at 65, I still drive five to ten thousand miles a year, etc. I’m feeling I SHOULD be spending all my waking time fighting for big political changes to address global warming, yet I find an awful lot of excuses to stay in my ruts.

]]> http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/03/my-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Todd Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:06:44 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=477#comment-791 April, Yes, it is terribly sad. His website is a massive compilation of the destruction being wrought, and your words are so touching. Thanks. April, Yes, it is terribly sad. His website is a massive compilation of the destruction being wrought, and your words are so touching. Thanks.

]]> http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/03/my-grief/comment-page-1/#comment-790 Joan Brundage Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=477#comment-790 Thanks, April, for your eloquent sharing. I, too, grieve as you do. I am trying to do my small part politically to somehow lessen the effect of global warming. Thanks, April, for your eloquent sharing. I, too, grieve as you do. I am trying to do my small part politically to somehow lessen the effect of global warming.

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