The glistening white snow in Ithaca inspires me to think of Winter as a season that encourages us to begin our days as “tabula rasa,” as blank slates. Every day we have an opportunity to start over. If we did not like aspects of the day before, we have the chance to make the next…
Tag: equality in nature
Commonality between people and nature
Youth advocate and social entrepreneur Wes Moore visited Cornell to commemorate Martin Luther King. He conveyed how we can contribute to our community by envisioning equality as a person’s potential rather their physical or socio-economic characteristics. This relates to nature because nature also has equal potential; however, anthropocentric ideologies of people’s power over nature have…
Shared experiences in nature
Comparing the appearances of different places at different times can inspire an awareness of unity and equality. This image reflects sunrise. I was among thousands of people at Obama’s second inaugural address on January 21, 2013 and we all saw the same vision of the sun rising over the capitol at about 7am. It was…
HELEN TREJO 