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Story by Tom Reed | Illustration by L. Eslick
y maternal grandmother
was a tiny crumb of a
woman, barely over 5 feet
tall, but like so many elevation-challenged
humans she had an outsized
influence. A personality, certainly,
but not one usually associated with
the diminutive - think small-man
complex - for I remember her as
fairly quiet. But she was inspiring,
particularly her love and deep connection
to a landscape, her affinity
for ground, home, place. We have a
name for this: conservation.
Not long ago, I ran across a note penned
by my grandmother tucked into a book my
mother owned called, " Earth Prayers. " My
mother was one of many my grandmother
mentored and inspired into a life devoted to
respect this rare planet we call home.
" It is my fervent hope that I may be able to
give my children a background of association
with nature which will provide them with
life-long sources of enjoyment and healthful
activity, and may develop in them an understanding
of the fundamental laws which
govern all creatures and a conception of the
interdependency of all forms of life, that may
produce in them a tolerance and respect for
the rights of others which this world so badly
needs, " my grandmother wrote.
If you read a newspaper or listened to the
radio in 1940 when my grandmother wrote
that note, my own mother being just 6 years
old then, you would have an understanding
of the setting and absorb even more from
those words. Paris, for instance, was in Nazi
hands in 1940. More than 80 years later those
words carry across the decades, as if written
by someone paying attention to the clamor
of today's people.
There comes a time in a person's life when
the white-wash that is hero-worship, the
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