Relationships
We move into our next writing assignment by focusing on relationships. Instead of looking at this theme from a conventional perspective, I invite you to explore this topic from a more cosmic and non-personal point of view.
We are all here through a series of cause and effect relationships. All of us can trace our origins to our parents, to their grandparents, and back to the very flaring forth of the Universe 13.7 billion years ago. Our connections are many and unavoidable. Becoming aware of them is not that difficult. Our next assignment is meant to increase our sense of interbeing by encouraging us to see and name.
For this next essay, I want us to focus on our relationships to land/sky/water/air, to this particular place/home we call South Florida. Instead of starting from the written word, however, I would like for you to take a photograph of something in our local bioregion (needs to be non-human) to which you find a particular affinity. This assignment is inspired by the Earth Ethics Institute 2010 Photography Challenge, and I encourage everyone to submit their image as part of the contest.
The essay will work as a companion to the image and should be no less than 750 words long. Instead of describing the photograph, the text should help the reader better understand or feel the relationship the image symbolizes.
Resources
A Universe Story
Journal of Light
Visit to the Everglades
We will be taking a car ride to Everglades National Park on Saturday, February 27th. Please let me know if you plan on attending. The trip will be an all day affair. We will meet at the park entrance at 9:00 and spend the day traveling through time and space in this magical place.
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