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What I also know is that a fierce protectiveness is being called out in each of us. We must stand,
unafraid, in the direct trajectory of harm to preserve the gifts of this earth. If we do nothing to protect
them for the future—if we do not heed the call of the innocent in our arms-‐-‐there will be nothing and
no one left to protect. What is most close to our hearts, in this moment, will be gone in the next. This is
the impassioned plea being made by the animals.
In a workshop in the late 1990’s, Deena Metzger, a spiritual teacher for many, shared her belief that
“Everything we love can be saved.” Fierceness is required to save it. There is no time to lose.
Laura D. Bellmay: A retired fundraising and
development consultant, Laura began
writing for the love of the craft after her
first cancer diagnosis in 1996. The
Collinsville Axe Factory Players hosted a
reading of “Holy Communion”, her essay
about growing up Catholic in 1950s “baby
boomer” housing in Foxon, Connecticut.
Laura was featured in a series of articles in
The Uxbridge Times in 2006. She lives in
Collinsville, Connecticut on a stretch of The
Farmington River protected as “wild and
scenic.” She has learned, gratefully, how to
live in harmony with breast cancer.
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