
![]() While I am wandering around this land surrounding Flat Iron Lake—exuding over swans, snapping turtles and baby robins—many people are suffering. Folks, who share my sense of place albeit along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, must now watch helplessly as oil washes ashore covering living creatures with brown goo. While I’m picking asparagus, lettuce and strawberries there are people with whom I share a common humanity, who are starving. Even the act of writing this blog comes into question as I view this link, sent by one of my kids: http://www.starvedforattention.org/take-action.php#blog from Doctors Without Borders. I feel guilty in such plentitude. Seeing the strewn crack eggs of turtles along our soft paths is a fitting visual to remind me that beauty as well as life itself is fleeting and can slip away at any time.
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Barbara
6/8/2010 04:39:24 am
I really like the appearance of your website. The dark background makes the photos so much more brilliant. I am eager to read and see more...
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Kristy Quist
6/8/2010 04:58:23 am
Carol, this is exactly what I was thinking last night when we drove past Lake Michigan. What a tragedy to have the beauty of that environment so devastated. And I can't imagine if it were Lake Michigan. It's part of who I am, and I'm sure more so for the people on the Gulf.
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Carol Rottman
6/8/2010 11:37:49 am
Thanks so coming by and leaving a note. I really enjoyed Kristy's blog too and see this as a new way to encourage one another's writing efforts between meetings.
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1/18/2017 03:54:32 am
What a disaster to have the excellence of that environment so crushed. Also, I can't suppose it were Lake Michigan. It's a piece of my identity, and I'm certain all the more so for the general population on the Gulf. I truly making the most of Kristy's blog as well and consider this to be another approach to support each other's composition endeavors between gatherings.
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