Protecting the land

Sue and her sister who lives in parched and burning Sacramento, California are doing what they can to save the trees and plants where their father built a little cottage on high land, a mile from the beach in Yachats, Oregon. The weather here is glorious: cool wind, fog bank blowing in off the ocean. But there has been no rain since April, and there is a burn ban in force throughout Oregon. Some of the native plants, unaccustomed to dryness, are dying.

Aurora Levins Morales writes, “What our bodies require in order to thrive, is what the world requires. If there is a map to get there, it can be found in the atlas of our skin and bone and blood….”