by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth
Dear Earth Family, I’m writing to you now because my heart is breaking and I don’t know a better way to communicate my feelings to you right now. These rifts between all of us feel devastating and I’m writing in hopes that we can find a way to reconcile. We’ve...
by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth
Did it feel like this discussion about systemic racism came out of left field? I suspect it took many of us off guard, not unlike the discussion about gay marriage several years ago. One day, everyone is saying WTF?, and then the next we’re all acting like the...
by Dr. Kimberly Andrews, Director of Earth Programs | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Voices of Nature
A month ago, my co-worker, Bridgette and I were driving home from the field late after catching and attaching satellite tags to alligators at the Okefenokee Swamp Park. As you may have read in the blog, The Silent Bark, we were discussing how people and events happen...
by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth
I was surprised each time I have found myself single, first after my divorce from my husband of 20 years and then after the death of my late husband Chris. I just didn’t expect to have to be out dating again prior to each instance. It is very different dating in my...
by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth
Getting along can be challenging, especially during these days of pandemic and polarization around so many topics including masks, race, politics, and climate change. Solutions are needed more than ever, but we can hardly find a way to talk to each other much less...
by Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog, Family and Community Healing, Reconnect With Earth
What the Pandemic and Demonstrations Have in Common This confluence of pandemic and Black Lives Matter is no accident. We created this through one common denominator: aggression towards what we view as “less than.” In a way, we can’t help it. We constantly have to...
