by Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director If you’ve never read “The Snake” by Anne Herbert, you should. In this humorous yet poignant revisit of Eden, Herbert likens original sin to keeping score. “At first we did have fun just like [God] expected. We played all the time. We rolled down …
Archives for December 2014
Kids and Nature: A Win-Win
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director Nature is good for us. Obvious as that may be, Richard Louv’s celebrated Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder provides study upon study substantiating and quantifying the notion: Time outside engaged in nature …
Protests of Beauty
By Tom Rowley, A Rocha USA Executive Director Sixties-era protest singer Phil Ochs once said, “In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” Whether you agree with his politics or not, the idea has merit and seems to be catching. Protests of beauty are popping up. From Smallest Seed by …