Doris Ward with Liz Durkee
Climate Change Connections: Nature leads the way
“My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you...
Climate Change Connections: Blooming beauty
“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival; it just blooms.” –Matshona Dhliwayo
Think of all the occasions where flowers set a certain...
Climate Change Connections: Water
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” —C.S. Lewis
In considering the effects...
Climate Change Connections: Tipping points
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” —Albert Einstein
When looking around, especially after these last storms, it would be hard...
Climate Change Connections: Valentine for Mother Earth
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.”...
Climate Change Connections: Trees
“Keep close to nature’s heart.” —John Muir
As a young lad, John Muir was in a welding accident, and lost his eyesight. As he lay...
Climate Change Connections: Taking action
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” —Chinese proverb
Listening to all that is out there...
Climate Change Connections: Blessings in a storm
All around us is news about climate change, and as it pounds away at us, it can get very disheartening and frightening — a...
Climate Change Connections: Thinking outside the box
The concept of rewilding is a broad subject, certainly thinking out of the box, and can take on many forms. To better understand and...
Climate Change Connections: It takes the Vineyard
In the last column, young people were interviewed. In this column, people from the older generation are asked the same questions. This is so...
Climate Change Connections: Teach your children well
It is ironic that the very words “climate change” are using two different meanings of the word “change.” The first is present, the other...
Climate Change Connections: The past is the prologue
We are an Island that threatened to secede from Massachusetts over reduced representation in the legislature. We even created our own flag! It is...
Climate Change Connections: All hands on deck
When my friend Liz Durkee and I first met, it was pure curiosity that drew us to each other. Who is this woman who...