Inspiration and Resources - Week Seven
Mary Ellen Mark
Photographers of Interest:
Photographs from Ward 81, a women's security ward of the Oregon State Mental Institution, the only locked ward for women in the state. The 2008 reprint contains additional material.
Bremner Benedict
Her photographs document the current conditions and predicaments of springs, from unaltered, restored, heavily altered, destroyed, to drained dry. There is a quiet beauty to this work, offering awareness to the delicate nature of our planet’s ecosystems and our need to protect our natural resources.
Joanna Macy - A Wild Love for the World
In this podcast Joanna invites us to:
“dance with despair, to see how we are called to not run from the discomfort and not run from the grief or the feelings of outrage or even fear — and that, if we can be fearless, to be with our pain, it turns. It doesn’t stay static. It only doesn’t change if we refuse to look at it. But when we look at it, when we take it in our hands, when we can just be with it and keep breathing, then it turns. It turns to reveal its other face, and the other face of our pain for the world is our love for the world, our absolutely inseparable connectedness with all life.”
