Okay, so here's the deal.
Sometimes the problems of the environmental crisis either get so traumatic or appear so complex that they become difficult to write about. Do I take a single side of a complicated battle? Do I attempt to show "both" sides of an issue that the extremes would like us to assume is only two-sided?
These are, at heart, writing problems. And as a writing teacher, I am hyper-aware of the parts of any environmental issue that can be broken down into such parts.
So when I don't write a blog post for a day or two or three, the odds are very good that I am not ignoring the problems I see, about which I sign petitions every day. But rather the odds are high that I am struggling to put my ideas and feelings into words that I think both people who might agree with me and people who might disagree with me could understand and accept.
So if you don't hear from me for a few days, post a comment. Tell me what YOU are thinking. Tell me what YOU are worrying about. Let me know what petitions YOU are signing.
Because that might give me the confidence to go on with this difficult quest we call human survival in a time of global climate change
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