Open Our Hearts – Mar. 24, 2023
“The promise of Lent is that something will be born of the ruin, something so astoundingly better than the present moment that we cannot imagine it. Lent is seeded with resurrection. The Resurrection promises that a new future will be given to us when we beg to be stripped of the lie of separation, when […]
Hawksbill Turtle – Mar. 23, 2023
“Here thirty years ago she broke from an egg beneath a full moon. Dozens of other inch-long hatchlings clambered around her, over her, all of them together pushing out of their sandy womb and scrambling with her down the beach, looking for the moon’s liquid reflection to direct them to the sea. Slower ones were […]
Laysan Albatross – Mar. 22, 2023
“Every cell of an albatross is made from the sea. They trust what it gives them. But the current of the central Pacific, swirling between California and China, have been made a soup of cast-off plastic—billions of pieces that never completely decompose. Each year Midway’s albatrosses unwittingly feed five tons of these pieces to their […]
Vanishing Monarchs – Mar. 21, 2023
“In twenty years, 99 percent of the milkweed here has disappeared. In those twenty years, farmers have been spraying their fields with glyphosate, marketed as “Roundup.” The corn and soybeans have been genetically modified to withstand the herbicide, so farmers spray often, all through the growing season. The food crops live on, but milkweed is […]
