Partnership for Earth Spirituality
Earth Seminars

The Partnership conducts earth spirituality seminars held each month in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Brief papers or other materials are prepared and posted on the Partnership's website in advance of each meeting. Should you wish to be added to the listserv receiving notification, please contact Joan Brown.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Water. Land. Home.

Facilitated by Deb Hibbard

Though my ideas for the evening are continuing to take shape, this will be an opportunity for us to consider together water and land in New Mexico. I have provided some readings for your reflection, and invite you to bring along other readings (or photos, art, etc.) to share that are meaningful to you. The evening will be one of exploration and co-creation, about Earth and our sense of place, and, more locally, our selves in relation to the Great River, the Rio Grande.

What is the relationship of Place and Community? What is meant by “vacant land?” What is water? What creates a connection to Place? Where are our own places-of-the-heart? Is there an essential need for Wildness? What inspires a sense of responsible stewardship; shifts in consciousness? What are your questions?

(Deb Hibbard is a community organizer, with more than thirty-five years of “grassroots” experience working on a variety of peace, social justice, and environmental issues. For the past decade, she has been focused on land and water issues in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. She is dedicated to community building, conflict resolution, and creative action.)

Click on the items below to download the material which we will be discussing.

Earth Quotes
The Influence Coming Into Play: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES,
by Marge Piercy (from TO BE OF USE)
Wherever, poem by Muriel Rukeyser

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