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Be an instrument of something bigger
A Symposium attendee in Ashland (Oregon), Bianca Powell, recently wrote a Letter to the Editor of her local paper about her experience. We thought her words would brighten your day and remind facilitators of the Symposium, what a difference they make:
"I can't tell you how empowering the symposium was for me. I am a senior with health challenges that greatly limit my abilities to participate in the ways that I once did. Mother Earth has been my beloved from earliest childhood. Protecting, preserving, and honoring her has been a force that's figured large in my life.
However, in recent years, between my health limitations and the enormity of the issues - as environmental degradation and climate change continued to escalate - I slipped into overwhelm, despair, and paralysis. The Symposium did exactly what it aims to do: it woke me up! I came up with 5 action items during the symposium's "brain storming assignment" (the first of which was writing the article) and I completed all five by the end of the first week. They in turn have spawned other ideas, contacts and actions. There's a true synergy at work here. It 's exhilarating!
The realization (and reality) that I can still make a valuable contribution have birthed incredible vitality in many dimension of my being, not the least of which is HOPE. As I quoted from the seminar in my letter, it is hope as a dimension of soul; hope committed to actions.
So, please, do share my letter in whatever ways you feel moved. It is a true honor and privilege. Thank you with all my heart."
