The Power of One is multiplied by the ripple effect that spreads out from our individual actions. For instance, I calculate that I have personally planted 70,000+ trees. Certainly many have died for one reason or another, but many are still alive and busy sequestering carbon, providing food, habitat, and so on, and some are making seeds that grow into trees and make more seeds and so on. My brother, […]
Christina Hornett | Bird clan
“You are so much like your Aunt Dani.” These words always brought a smile of pride to my face. More so if my mother had a note of disdain in her voice when she said it. Good, I would think, because I want to be nothing like you. Aunt Dani did not live near us. She was nomadic. Letters and postcards were delivered to our mailbox from all sorts of […]
Elizabeth Hoyle | Special delivery
I used to think that the pages of books were like feathers: soft, warm, and able to carry you away with a little rustling. I pray with every hope in my heart that my younger thoughts were right. Each step I take brings me closer to that jagged wire fence. I know I need to get closer, even though my feet and my stomach don’t want me to. I had […]
J.D. Michaels | Duty
When James was in high school, his father had been called up to Iraq from the California National Guard and then returned with a head trauma no one could see but everyone could feel. The painkiller-fueled descent that followed ripped the earth open under James like a gaping mouth and introduced him to an empty space that he thought must be adulthood. His father had left as a mighty pine, […]
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