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Patty Ireland's avatar

Laura: Thank you for today's offering of "Rural Reflections." I especially loved your thoughts about water: "My big writing project involves floods, so I spend a lot of time thinking about water and its contradictions. Not that water knows it has contradictions, of course—water does what water will. We humans are the ones who struggle. We love its 'natural' beauty yet seek to control and contain it, shaping it to our own desires rather than the other way around, which causes us no end of pain and grief." True, wise words. Your musings about the ways in which our treatment of animals may be connected to our treatment of people we view as "other" also resonated strongly with me. Beautiful thoughts all. Thank you again.

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Marianne Worthington's avatar

so glad to read about your experience at Loretto (and thanks for the Still: The Journal link!)

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