Writing to Save the World

 

Join us at this free event in October celebrating the writing of four Salida High Schoolers. We met this summer to write about climate action change-makers in our community. These students will share their writing and introduce these folks whose efforts are helping to curb global warming!

Our publication will be for sale with all proceeds going to Friends of Browns Canyon. Please join us!

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As a freelance journalist and recently a memoirist, I have been encouraged to see that I can make a difference in my community through my writing. Over the years I have written about recycling better, water rights and gentrification (see my "Journalism" page).

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Writing and communication in our culture has been failing. Despite all of the ways we can communicate via the internet and social media, misunderstandings abound and our language is becoming slaughtered with acronyms and misspellings. Grammar is often non-existent.

This is partly why, if you write and communicate well, you have a huge leg up in the world.

 

During our class this summer, students focused on their relationship with nature and learned about local organizations striving to curb climate change, and thus helping to "Save the World."

It is an understatement to say that there is a lot going on in the world right now and it can render many to feel helpless. Writing about it gives us empowerment to do something positive in this circumstance.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddist philosopher, reminds us through his writing that we live in a collective consciousness and through small gestures, we DO make a difference in the world.

 

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