To counter ecological grief, I turn to the beaver, the goldfinch, the pollinator.
Many of my friends would argue that my choices are like spitting into the wind. In some ways, they are right: Most of the problems — and the potential solutions — require a weighty national calculus way above my pay grade.
Yet in random moments of grace, I stumble across another person whose life has been changed by the same concerns that have changed mine, who is making decisions that reflect theirAs naive and inadequate as it is, I want to give something back — to provide a refuge to the birds, mammals, grasses, and wildflowers that haveA raccoon, accustomed to snacking on tidbits from my compost heap, saunters brazenly out from the trees in late afternoon. I watch it approach its meal from a healthy distance.
Is my stumbling, inept hospitality to the life around me too little, too late? Maybe. Deck chairs on the Titanic? Perhaps. But as long as the goldfinches, bucks, and pollinating bees show up — as long as the water cascades over the rocks of the Brandywine Creek — I am here, bearing witness. Perhaps someday, even, that elusive beaver will show up.
is a freelance journalist in Chester County. Her writing has appeared in Religion News Service, the National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Christian Century, the Washington Post, and The Inquirer.
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