By Elizabeth Enslin on April 30, 2010
Today is Save the Frogs Day. Over 2000 species are threatened with extinction….
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Posted in Biodiversity, Politics and History, Recent | Tagged amphibians, political action, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 22, 2010
I’ve been going through old photos to pick out some that might be appropriate for an album (or maybe a series of blog posts), tentatively entitled, “Rocks I Have Loved.” It struck me this morning how well that metaphor suits Earth Day….
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Posted in Images, Pacific Northwest travel, Politics and History, Recent, Rocks I Have Loved | Tagged ancient history, archaeology, nostalgia, photography, rocks |
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 8, 2010
Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women’s Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar’s first time to organize an event for that day. I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Politics and History, Recent, Sustainability, World Travel, Writing | Tagged inspiration, Nepal, women |
By Elizabeth Enslin on January 28, 2010
Within 24 hours, Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger die, and Steve Jobs announces the iPad (which — menstrual jokes aside — may or may not revolutionize how we interact with the written word). I’m too busy trying to meet end-of-month writing deadlines to meditate on these odd conjunctions. And perhaps writing is the best way
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Posted in Politics and History, Recent, Social media | Tagged current events, history, inspiration |
By Elizabeth Enslin on January 26, 2010
Following up on my Martin Luther King Day post, here are some more links that expose mainstream media bias and deepen historical and political understanding of Haiti:…
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Politics and History, Recent | Tagged Haiti, media, nature |
By Elizabeth Enslin on January 18, 2010
It’s hard enough to comprehend the scale of disaster in Haiti. What’s harder is this: to stand by and watch hate, ignorance and greed breed on human suffering like maggots….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Politics and History, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged Haiti, Jr., Martin Luther King, racism, stories |
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 25, 2009
Unlike my stepfather and his clan, numerous cousins, the son I spawned, and many friends; I don’t usually look at wild animals and think: meat. Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), indigenous to North America, have become a recent exception….
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Posted in Humor, Poetry, Politics and History, Seasons and Rituals, Species of the Week | Tagged food, holidays, Thanksgiving, wild, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 31, 2009
One of the things I loved best about teaching high school social studies was shaking up students’ perceptions of history. And one of my favorite lessons was in Ancient History. I’d bring in a a jar of beans and a potato with so many sprouts it looked like an octopus (the fact that I always found one in my cupboard could have doubled as a cautionary lesson in the domestic arts)….
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Posted in Politics and History, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening, Yurt Living | Tagged ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, Homesteading, patience, Sustainable Gardening |
By Elizabeth Enslin on September 4, 2009
For International Vulture Awareness Day, I highlight some exciting community initiatives on two endangered vulture species I posted on last spring: The California Condor and White-Rumped Vulture….
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Posted in Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity, Politics and History | Tagged communities, Nepal, vultures |
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