What a wonderful piece. I love the idea of stewardship. I've been planting a native pollinator garden on my balcony to encourage the monarchs and other native pollinators! BTW, I'm going to add a wonderful organization to your list: The Center for Biological Diversity. They are quite amazing and do awesome work. They are also one of the few environmental groups to advocate for a plant-based diet and they are active in rewilding lands.
Yay for you and your balcony garden! And thank you so much for adding the Center for Biological Diversity. They really have the interdependence thing down.
There’s so much rich food for thought here! For years, I’ve been drawn to vultures as the stewards for a healthy ecosystem. For multiple reasons, vultures have been ingesting poison in recent years, and that’s diminishing their ability to stop the spread of diseases. I like to think of them allegorically in addition to championing actual vultures - who is left to pick up the pieces when things go wrong, and how do we treat them? Who is working behind the scenes, and how can we support them? What toxins are we letting get in the way of stewardship?
I love this so much, Cindy. I have been a big fan of vultures. They are one of the most interesting birds to watch, but as you suggest, even more important for how they steward the earth by cleaning up the messes. I’m sorry but not surprised to hear they are being poisoned. And I love your questions. I will be mulling them over.
Blair, there is so much to consider here. I appreciate the reframe of stewarding each of my daughters - something I overthink, like, every day. Hillary and I have long considered ourselves stewards of this patch we tend to - but it's a challenge. I've committed last year to two areas of eco-stewardship: maintaining the health of this 3/4 acre pond (an ordeal with warmer winters) and enriching bird life. Douglas Talamy's Nature's Best Hope inspired me to tend more to what we can do right in our backyards to diversify bird life.
It's the local cultural/community stewardship I get most curious about - specifically our interdependence. Collectivist efforts interest me.
I'm reading Terrible Beauty and Choosing Earth at the same time. Both acknowledge horrible forecasts for the next 50 years, both acknowledge how warning signs since 1976 have gone unheeded, but both promise some better ways for us to live together with this planet.
Dear Jeffrey, what a beautiful share of stewardship. And I am curious to hear where your collectivist curiosity lands you. Both of the titles you shared are such brutal reads and so important for motivating us to be better stewards. Those birdies in your neck of the woods have no idea how lucky they are. 💕 I really appreciate you chiming in here with such depth.
What a wonderful piece. I love the idea of stewardship. I've been planting a native pollinator garden on my balcony to encourage the monarchs and other native pollinators! BTW, I'm going to add a wonderful organization to your list: The Center for Biological Diversity. They are quite amazing and do awesome work. They are also one of the few environmental groups to advocate for a plant-based diet and they are active in rewilding lands.
Yay for you and your balcony garden! And thank you so much for adding the Center for Biological Diversity. They really have the interdependence thing down.
There’s so much rich food for thought here! For years, I’ve been drawn to vultures as the stewards for a healthy ecosystem. For multiple reasons, vultures have been ingesting poison in recent years, and that’s diminishing their ability to stop the spread of diseases. I like to think of them allegorically in addition to championing actual vultures - who is left to pick up the pieces when things go wrong, and how do we treat them? Who is working behind the scenes, and how can we support them? What toxins are we letting get in the way of stewardship?
I love this so much, Cindy. I have been a big fan of vultures. They are one of the most interesting birds to watch, but as you suggest, even more important for how they steward the earth by cleaning up the messes. I’m sorry but not surprised to hear they are being poisoned. And I love your questions. I will be mulling them over.
I love this understanding. I think of snapping turtles in a similar light because the muck out pond bottom for a lot of carcass.
Blair, there is so much to consider here. I appreciate the reframe of stewarding each of my daughters - something I overthink, like, every day. Hillary and I have long considered ourselves stewards of this patch we tend to - but it's a challenge. I've committed last year to two areas of eco-stewardship: maintaining the health of this 3/4 acre pond (an ordeal with warmer winters) and enriching bird life. Douglas Talamy's Nature's Best Hope inspired me to tend more to what we can do right in our backyards to diversify bird life.
It's the local cultural/community stewardship I get most curious about - specifically our interdependence. Collectivist efforts interest me.
I'm reading Terrible Beauty and Choosing Earth at the same time. Both acknowledge horrible forecasts for the next 50 years, both acknowledge how warning signs since 1976 have gone unheeded, but both promise some better ways for us to live together with this planet.
Your contribution here helps.
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Dear Jeffrey, what a beautiful share of stewardship. And I am curious to hear where your collectivist curiosity lands you. Both of the titles you shared are such brutal reads and so important for motivating us to be better stewards. Those birdies in your neck of the woods have no idea how lucky they are. 💕 I really appreciate you chiming in here with such depth.
appreciate your use of the word Stewardship in this context. It puts the power back in the people's hands.
Love love love all this! And love Vanna's little face!
Glad you saw it. And so fun seeing your face Sat!