1. Ivy McDermott - 1/13/2023 - Week One Review (Ch.1)

     As someone who has never really stepped foot into a college philosophy, humanities, or religion class and listened to countless hours of biology and chemistry lectures, it was so refreshing to hear yesterday's lecture and read the first chapter of our book. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with my time here on Earth, but I'm glad I am here now to open my eyes. I don't know if it was hearing someone finally talk about humans in such a critical way rather than "work, work, work", or not being used to hearing professors say they love their students, but I teared up, even just reading our textbook. Yes, I need to read more. By the way, we love you too, we are just awkward! 

    I still feel stuck in a way, like a cliffhanger, waiting to see our fate. On one hand, humans have a disastrous footprint and there are people who don't even believe in climate change. On the other, there are some good things that set us apart from other animals. We are born into mediacy, we have time to think, create, dance about, make a change, whereas wild animals' only instinct is to survive and thrive. I now see that humans have a power to come together and make change, as exhibited by the Channel Island foxes and the banning of CFC's... There is a power in community that I'm excited to join and be apart of. What's to stop us from shifting our attitude of greed to educating future generations to have an impeccable love and adoration for nature and reestablish that connection? I think I want to spend more time in nature and spend my time here learning how to live in nature, as "water in water".

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