ReBlog: Robert Hass On Rivers & Stories

October 20, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. - Rainer Maria Rilke - Robert Hass On Rivers & Stories In this essay, Pulitzer prize-winning poet Robert Hass brings our attention to the potential resilience of rivers as stories across cultures, places, and time, that most of the life on earth depends on fresh water, and that like stories they have a beginning, a middle, and an end. In between they flow, if we let them... { read more } Be The Change Let your imagination flow with this examination of the condition of the world's rivers, and the flow of our own minds as we think about earth. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Our Planet Through the Eyes of Children The 13-Year Old Who Is Foresting the World More Than Human: Striking Animal Portraits Mind In The Forest: The Intelligence of Trees The Poetry of Childhood Love, the Most Powerful Medicine What A Plant Knows Life Lessons from A Winged Visitor