I took my son fishing in our canoe. Initially, it was a very unsteady ride. But eventually, he got comfortable and used to the movement of the canoe. After about an hour or so, he became complacent. The canoe leaned slightly and he panicked, then overcorrected by shifting his weight too quickly. A split second …
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The Second Silent Spring
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was an alarming look into the environmental landscape of the early 1960’s that set the environmental movement on fire, resulting in environmental activism and regulations put into place to protect our natural resource. She documented the spring when the birds stopped singing and the silence that replaced it. I see …