[OKC] Restoration Row

[Shauna Struby]

It's easy to get embedded with the everyday madness of living, and the tasks
and details of working for sustainability. Heads down and focused, which is
a mostly a good thing, we may lose sight of the richness and beauty of the
world that sustains us. So when an article like this comes along, I am
always grateful. It reminds me of why we do what we do, helps me remember
that not all is lost, that hope is in the world. Most of all it reminds me
to pull my head up and check back in with Nature. She's there, waiting
patiently, as always. 

 

>From yesterday's NY Times .

 

May 28, 2008,  10:08 pm 

Restoration Row

PAWHUSKA, Okla. - It is hard to love a land you don't understand, and for
most of my life I had no idea why anyone would ever live in the Great Plains
- let alone love the place. 

Flat, featureless, boring. Those were the words I heard growing up whenever
someone would mention the plains. My view was informed by Dorothy's Kansas,
which looked scary and Gothic even before the twister took her house and
Toto, too.

But then I spent some time here, mostly listening to people in the twilight
of their lives tell about the land when it turned on them, during the Dust
Bowl of the 1930s. At the end of a long day of hearing stories, I would go
for a run in the wind, and sometimes get a glimpse of the magic of the place
- a pronghorn antelope in a sprint, a sky blushing pink, the quiet when the
air finally settles. 

 

More here . http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/restoration-row/?em
<http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/restoration-row/?em&ex=1212292800&
en=ea7f58052d871157&ei=5087%0A>
&ex=1212292800&en=ea7f58052d871157&ei=5087%0A 

 

 

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