{"id":450,"date":"2009-04-16T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:30:24","slug":"shes-no-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/shes-no-green\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s no green"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Ford<\/a> — who is, by the way, a great example of a writer-as-polymath and whose work I always enjoy for its thorough, open-minded take on whatever it is that has captured her attention — has a nice piece<\/a> in this week’s Reader <\/em>on my friend Nance Klehm<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This passage handily sums up why I like her so much:<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t call her\u00a0<\/em>green<\/em><\/span>. “Those terms are marketing terms,” Klehm says. “They are not helping us connect to a more abundant and self-renewing way of being.” The question she wants people to ask isn\u2019t “Which \u2018green\u2019 products should I buy?\u201d It\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s the nature of my connection to the soil, and can I deepen it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I would also add that I was on the foraging walk where she found the morels (mentioned a bit further down the piece), and not only did she scream, she jumped up and down shrieking like a little kid and then flung herself into the grass, kicking her feet in the air. I think the last thing to get me that excited was the popsicle man.<\/p>\n

I’ve been on several of these walks and taken a bunch of her clases, but, frankly, my retention is not so great. I still have trouble identifying lamb’s quarters from a foot away, and I think I have killed all the worms in my compost bin. What I have<\/em> internalized from Nance’s work is the belief that it’s still possible to see the world as source of unending discovery. And that’s pretty cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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