Tag: water

water is also a verb

This phrase is the title of an essay in All We Can Save. It lives in the Nourish section of the book, nestled between “Black Gold” and “The Seed Underground.” “God is change,” claims Octavia Butler. “Water is in constant flux,” says Judith D. Schwartz. It’s not like we didn’t know things were changing. The land knew. The animals knew.…

8 film companions for the great Drought

So … reading Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner was intense. The great and terrible history of the American quest to tame the desert is one in which the intentions never matched the outcomes. It added one more thing to my guilt load. Discussing this with a few other women, we had the same reoccurring thought “what should we do?” I don’t know. I live…