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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION

summer in order to escape the noise I have to keep my windows shut and when the gunning is at its

worst I have to wear ear protectors. The winters are long and harsh and unfriendly neighbors make

living here more difficult than it has to be.

Where will I go? I think the answer to that question is less important than my understanding that

wherever I go I will be called to witness Nature’s sorrow. From now on I will make this choice willingly.

It’s all I have to give, and in that giving of myself I participate in the Great Round of life in a way that

matters to the Earth and to me.

Sara Wright is a naturalist and a writer. Presently she lives

in a log cabin by a brook with two small dogs and one

dove. She writes about the animals and plants that live on

this property and publishes them monthly in her nature

column in The Bethel Citizen. She has also written for

Trivia: Voices of Feminism www.triviavoices.com, and

Return to Mago www. magoism.net. She has

Passamaquoddy roots, which may or may not be why she

has dedicated her life to speaking out on behalf of the

slaughtered trees, dying plants and disappearing animals.

Please visit her blog “Over the Edge and Beyond: Journal

of a Naturalist.”

sarawrightnature.wordpress.com

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