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A Sand County Almanac

30 Sunday Dec 2018

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Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Those words are as true today as they were when Aldo Leopold wrote them on March 4, 1948, just 48 days before his death on April 21st of that year. A Sand County Almanac was published posthumously by Leopold’s son, Luna, in 1949. Later, in 1953, Leopold’s unpublished essays were put together in a book called Round River.

In 1966, A Sand County Almanac and Round River were combined to form this edition:

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More than seventy years later we are still struggling to maintain the balance between progress and keeping things “natural, wild, and free”.

“These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast, and until science disclosed the drama of where they come from and how they live,” Leopold wrote. “The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.”

In his foreword to A Sand County Almanac, Leopold also wrote, “Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.

“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. That land yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but latterly often forgotten.”

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Aldo Leopold

Leopold also wrote, “our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary as this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

“Perhaps such a shift in values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined terms of things natural, wild, and free.”

Over the course of the next weeks, I will be working my way through A Sand County Almanac. I hope to convey that what Leopold saw as important, or even imperative, in 1948 is just as important in 2019.

#AdventWord: Week 3

23 Sunday Dec 2018

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The challenge continues . . .

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December 17–Sing My favorite Advent hymn from which I found the titles for the three books in my fantasy series, The Hallowed Treasures Saga.

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December 18–Ancestor The grave of an ancestor in rural Georgia.

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December 19–Wash Baptism is “the heavenly washing”.

December 20–Ablaze. This site doesn’t support video, but on this day I posted a short video of a fire blazing in the hearth.

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December 21–Sign

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December 22–Expect. Expectation of the harvest: an olive tree about to bloom.

#AdventWord: Week 2

16 Sunday Dec 2018

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And the challenge continues:

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December 10–Cry

 

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December 11–Grow

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December 12–Rough. Macro shot of rose quartz.

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December 13–Smooth Macro shot of polished quartz.

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December 14–Prune

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December 15–Prepare 1928 Book of Common Prayer

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December 16–Rejoice St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida.

#AdventWord: Week 1

09 Sunday Dec 2018

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I challenged myself to post a daily black and white photo to Instagram and Twitter to represent the #AdventWord word of the day. Here is Week 1:

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December 3–Watch

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December 4–Focus

AdventWordNight

December 5–Night

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December 6–Light

AdventWordSprout

December 7–Sprout

AdventWordAlert

December 8–Alert

AdventWordWild

December 9–Wild

#AdventWord 2018

02 Sunday Dec 2018

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The Season of Advent begins today and  having just completed the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month ) challenge of writing 50,000 words in a month, I’ve decided to take on another challenge for December:

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This challenge will have me posting a photo  representing the word of the day (see above) every day in Advent. I have decided that my challenge to myself will be to post a black and white photo of the word every day. As today is the first day of Advent (December 2), I will post my first photo here to represent #Journey:

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To find out more or sign up for a daily meditation: #AdventWord

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