Caring for the Earth. Chester Ronning Series March 4 on-line session. Positive experience! Thanks to Rev. Dr. Dittmar Mündel and Carmelle Javney and Tiff McNaughton and the ds106 folks and Leslie Lindballe for an inclusive, thought provoking evening. My first on-line and blogging experience – so I have a learning curve to master, but due to time constraints I thought I would try to participate this way.
And the Vancouver group even said ‘hello’! To answer the closing Q…‘the song that sung to me most’ was the contention that:
- the extractive companies have become the imperial power and
- A different discourse is possible – one that sustains life.
For some reason, this was not self-evident to me. Thanks everybody.
Jan! You’ve got it!
So happy to have you participating from afar. This is fascinating to me to have people from so many places listening and participating. It really speaks to your second part – a different discourse is possible. In fact, we are making it happen with all these wonderful connections and conversations!
The first comment still sends shivers through me. How do we wrestle that power back? Sometimes it feels like we’re fighting with ghosts. Just when you get a grasp, they disappear in your hands. I suppose it comes back to something we were discussing in the class I’m doing with http://camrosewisdomschool.wordpress.com/.
“In order to have hope in what does not deceive, we must lose hope in what does deceive.”
I like the quote from Camrose.