Standing on the edge again....
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Blogging here at We seems the right way to start to share my families journey to a sustainable future. Nashville is on the edge of this movement, not too sure how to jump in & the next few months & years seem poised to bloom with innovation, participation, and action.
My own home is at the edge of Nashville, just across the line into Sumner County, and on the edge of our subdivision. To the front is a typical sidewalk & driveway cul-de-sac lined with kids, scooters, and lawns. To the back is my small bit of yard, then an old hedgerow, a field sometimes inhabited by cows, a giant tree felled by a tornado of 2 years past, and almost out of sight, an old barn whose roof line runs true to north-south, a kind of compass.
We are on the edge in so many ways. I have crossed the edge of disbelief to learn that the climate crisis is real and no, nobody is going to fix it & then tell us when we have dodged the bullet. The changes happening now in my lifetime will only be magnified thru my son's lifetime & then on down the generations.
I am always on the edge of knowing what to do next, balancing between maintaining the lifestyle of mom & homemaker with a new role of citizen activist and even radical. I'm hopeful the future will be full of prosperity & peace for my child, but on the edge of pessimism all the time, waiting for others in my culture to catch on & catch up.
I'm doing what I can though to help spread the reality that we can solve it and I hope finding time to blog about it here, will be a part of that solution.
~m
My own home is at the edge of Nashville, just across the line into Sumner County, and on the edge of our subdivision. To the front is a typical sidewalk & driveway cul-de-sac lined with kids, scooters, and lawns. To the back is my small bit of yard, then an old hedgerow, a field sometimes inhabited by cows, a giant tree felled by a tornado of 2 years past, and almost out of sight, an old barn whose roof line runs true to north-south, a kind of compass.
We are on the edge in so many ways. I have crossed the edge of disbelief to learn that the climate crisis is real and no, nobody is going to fix it & then tell us when we have dodged the bullet. The changes happening now in my lifetime will only be magnified thru my son's lifetime & then on down the generations.
I am always on the edge of knowing what to do next, balancing between maintaining the lifestyle of mom & homemaker with a new role of citizen activist and even radical. I'm hopeful the future will be full of prosperity & peace for my child, but on the edge of pessimism all the time, waiting for others in my culture to catch on & catch up.
I'm doing what I can though to help spread the reality that we can solve it and I hope finding time to blog about it here, will be a part of that solution.
~m
