How can I begin to capture what it’s like to spend two and a half days with 2,200 other Climate Reality leaders, trying to take in the deluge of information and absorb the accumulated knowledge and wisdom?
Umm….‘Wow!’?
Yep, that’s about right.
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The world is on fire, or flooding. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch continues to expand. Environmental protections are being greedily stripped away. Sometimes it’s just all too much, and we go numb.
And sometimes humans are galvanized by an image, a story they can very much relate to. Such was the case this summer when an orca in the Pacific Northwest gave birth to a female calf, only to have her die within a half hour. The mother, named J35 by researchers who study this orca population, carried her calf’s lifeless body on her rostrum for 17 agonizing days as millions followed her story.
These are two short pieces written for the Northern California and Northern Nevada chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, for inclusion in their newsletter supporting the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
Every year, nineteen times as of 2018, I’ve taken a deep breath and asked lots of people I know for their money. I don’t particularly relish it, but I do it anyway because I’m passionate about ending Alzheimer’s disease, and I want to see it happen in my lifetime.
Paula on Point 