Five days at the Agape Community in Central Massachusetts, 3 miles east of Quabbin Reservoir. Five days to recover from the disappointment of postponing my trip in June and July 2018 to photograph Palestinian refugees in Northern and Central Europe. Instead I concentrate on water, friends, prayer, and bugs. PHOTOS: Agape’s Francis Day Celebration: Muslim Voices […]
Read More Witness to the Light-part fourFive days at the Agape Community in Central Massachusetts, 3 miles east of Quabbin Reservoir. Five days to recover from the disappointment of postponing my trip in June and July 2018 to photograph Palestinian refugees in Northern and Central Europe. Instead I concentrate on water, friends, prayer, and bugs. PHOTOS June 17, 2018, Sunday, Agape Chilly […]
Read More Witness to the Light-part oneThe old people came literally to love the soil, and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. […]
Read More Awakening to Yesterday, Anticipating Tomorrow: Saint Francis and Standing RockAccounts from my journal, written while I photographed Detroit in June 2017—or writing later. For three days of my first week in Detroit I attended the Second International Gathering of Social Movements on Water. A “Blue Community” is one that adopts a water commons framework that treats water as belonging to no one and the […]
Read More Searching for the Seeds of the New Detroit Miracle (2017)—part three—Social Movements of Water Conference (continued)Dedicated to Fadia Daibes Murad, award-winning Palestinian hydrologist, activist, personal friend and colleague. In 2009 she died when her car crashed during a heavy rain storm as she returned from an international water conference in Turkey. And to Monica Lewis-Patrick, Detroit Water Warrior, co-founder and co-director of We the People of Detroit who fortunately and […]
Read More From Palestine to Detroit and Flint: Water JusticeAccounts from my journal, written while I photographed Detroit in June 2017—or writing later. For three days of my first week in Detroit I attended the Second International Gathering of Social Movements on Water. Here are my notes from the first two days. PHOTOS June 9, 2017, Friday, Detroit Illness might follow restoration of water […]
Read More Searching for the Seeds of the New Detroit Miracle (2017)—part two—Social Movements of Water ConferenceAccounts from my journal, written while I photographed Detroit in June 2017—or writing later. I come from Detroit where it’s rough and I’m not a smooth talker. —Eminem PHOTOS June 7, 2017, Wednesday, Detroit Letter to S: i’m in detroit, settling into my home away from home. the water man turned on our water this […]
Read More Searching for the Seeds of the New Detroit Miracle (2017)—part oneYou must make the injustice visible and be prepared to die like a soldier to do so. —Mahatma Gandhi From a workshop about writing in the context of The Work That Reconnects, (designed by Joanna Macy) and led by Louise Dunlap, Aravinda Ananda, and Joseph Rotella. We were asked to imagine a creature speaking to us from the future. […]
Read More An evolved human speaks to me from MarsIsraelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians are currently planning accelerated development around the Dead Sea, which would result in massive construction of new hotels, expansion of industry and enhanced mineral and water extraction. The various new endeavors currently proposed for the region demonstrate not only woefully insufficient consideration of even basic ecological principles, but also a lack […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel: The Dead (and Dying) Sea-part 2Lying in the heart of the Syrian-African rift valley at the southern outlet of the Jordan River, the Dead Sea region is internationally known for its unique geographical, biological, and historical characteristics. It is the lowest point on earth and world’s saltiest large water body. The Basin’s historical features include Jesus’s baptism site, Masada, and […]
Read More Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel: The Dead (and Dying) Sea-part 1
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