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Christian Totty's avatar

Thank you for this, Nan. I love the line, "you could start, i try to tell them, by lessening your harm." I feel the wisdom of water speaking here. As we move closer towards the winter solstice, and deeper into to season of water/winter, I'll carry these words with me.

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Nan Seymour's avatar

Thank you Christian, It's beautiful to met by others who are listening to water in this way. I'm glad we are here together. Blessings on your winter season and solstice time.

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Samantha Wallen (she/her)'s avatar

Thank you for opening us up to this journey and inviting us to be a part of it with you, Nan. May we all see and recognize our Beloved Water Bodies in this way...

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Nan Seymour's avatar

Thank you Sam. You are an inspiration to me.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

“If they would listen

i could teach them to be elegant”

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Lindsey Melden's avatar

My own Great Lakes call to me. Happy for your presence here.

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Cordelia Schaffer's avatar

Beautiful and gut-wrenching, the grand lady of the lake .

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Nan Seymour's avatar

Thank you for reading. I'm so glad to find you here.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

This inspiration of yours, and of Great Salt Lake, and Terry Tempest Williams, and all the Lake’s people...this inspiration lifts me up. Merci.🌱

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Nan Seymour's avatar

Many of the devoted allies for Great Salt Lake here are originally from the Great Lakes. I love Great Lakes people! Thank you for helping us turn our hearts and faces towards this lake and all the life she sustains. Thank you for sharing your lake-facing culture.

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Elena Brower's avatar

speechless, in awe of your commitment. "Across hemispheres, rivers have been set free by ordinary, broken-hearted people willing to devote themselves to the water and the life that water sustains. Ordinary people who show up again and again bring down the dams." I'm willing to learn and support this.

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