Beautiful story, important fight to protect our living world. I live in your area, Katherine, and would love to be in touch. greenmentch at Hotmail dot com.
Your piece is a call to action at best and a consideration to think, about water that we take for granted. You point out the CONNECTION of waterways to one another, along that connection are plants, insects, mammals, birds, us. Rising temperatures, off kilter bloom times for plants, careless pollution, all points made here raise my hopes that movement is possible. Thank you Katharine.
Wonderful piece. There are pretty much no clean waterways left in England; the vast majority of rivers and streams are polluted with waste run-off, sewage, and all kinds of pathogens. Even the sea is becoming dangerous to swim in in some places. Your tracing of water systems back to their source is a welcome reminder.
It's time to remember that we are all interconnected and that our actions have a profound impact on our planet. Thank you for your connection to nature and for doing your part to look after these sacred resources.
Gratitude, Katharine, for you being so involved with this. Here in southeastern N Carolina and northeastern S Carolina it's literally a fight for life! National developers and finance companies have been given complete unfettered access to larger tracts of land for present and future. development at the state level without any say-so by local people or their elected representatives. This won't end well, if it continues. The consequences of their mindlessness and greed are already felt not only by our species but all life in this region.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to this cause- a very interesting approach, getting rights for the river, and one I think could work! Was just paddling the north fork of the Catawba the other day and thought a lot more about where the headwaters were, what all fed into it, where it went past the point I floated… your writing is making us all pay attention. This latest Supreme Court ruling is simply egregious-thank you for working on solutions for protection!!
Dana, I can just picture you paddling the Catawba River and thinking those thoughts!
Ben Price at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has been a huge help along with Kevin Doyle Jones in the editorial process. I am fortunate.
Thank you for your consistent, thoughtful presence here. ❤️
Wow, Katherine! What a piece. It flows like unimpeded water. I look forward to following the progress of this amazing endeavor. Yes rivers are persons ( certainly they can be if coporstions are!)
And then there is the aquifer problem. They are being drained! Where to start!
Gosh, Carol!! You are so attentive to writing style. Thank you.
I am thinking about evolving Matters of Kinship to following the rights of nature movement globally and with locally our journey with the Swannanoa River. love, kath
Beautiful writing and thank you for the work, both writing and activist, you do!
Thank you, Brian. That means the world to me. 🌱
Congratulations on your consistent writing on Substack!!
Water is life. I continue to be baffled by the disregard that it receives. 💔
Yes! How fortunate we are to live on a habitable planet!
Beautiful story, important fight to protect our living world. I live in your area, Katherine, and would love to be in touch. greenmentch at Hotmail dot com.
David, thank you! I will email you.🌱
I didn’t want the story to end!
I have immense gratitude to be learning such important information on our sacred water from you. I want more!!
Thanks, Jo. You are such a good cheerleader to me. I appreciate your words.
Your piece is a call to action at best and a consideration to think, about water that we take for granted. You point out the CONNECTION of waterways to one another, along that connection are plants, insects, mammals, birds, us. Rising temperatures, off kilter bloom times for plants, careless pollution, all points made here raise my hopes that movement is possible. Thank you Katharine.
Taylor, you've watched this journey for a long time. Your thoughtful comment is amazing. Thank you, always. ❤️
Katharine: Have you read -Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico-
by Stanley Crawford? It's a beautiful book in so many ways. Such a different environment from the green of your home.
Andi, any recommendation from you is gold. I will find Mayordomo!
Wonderful piece. There are pretty much no clean waterways left in England; the vast majority of rivers and streams are polluted with waste run-off, sewage, and all kinds of pathogens. Even the sea is becoming dangerous to swim in in some places. Your tracing of water systems back to their source is a welcome reminder.
Thanks always, for reading and commenting. I am sad to hear about England.
This story took a while. There were many avenues but tracing the lineage and the communities of water felt right.🌱
"This story took a while." Thank you for taking the time.
Thanks, Andi. I know you know.🌱
It's time to remember that we are all interconnected and that our actions have a profound impact on our planet. Thank you for your connection to nature and for doing your part to look after these sacred resources.
Thank you, David. It is time. And what an extraordinary time to be alive.🌱
Thank you for your work 🙏🏻🌏
Satya, thanks for saying that.
Thank you for your practice.🌱
Gratitude, Katharine, for you being so involved with this. Here in southeastern N Carolina and northeastern S Carolina it's literally a fight for life! National developers and finance companies have been given complete unfettered access to larger tracts of land for present and future. development at the state level without any say-so by local people or their elected representatives. This won't end well, if it continues. The consequences of their mindlessness and greed are already felt not only by our species but all life in this region.
G, can you subscribe again? Thank you! I mistakenly too you off the list.
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Thank you for your hard work and dedication to this cause- a very interesting approach, getting rights for the river, and one I think could work! Was just paddling the north fork of the Catawba the other day and thought a lot more about where the headwaters were, what all fed into it, where it went past the point I floated… your writing is making us all pay attention. This latest Supreme Court ruling is simply egregious-thank you for working on solutions for protection!!
Dana, I can just picture you paddling the Catawba River and thinking those thoughts!
Ben Price at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has been a huge help along with Kevin Doyle Jones in the editorial process. I am fortunate.
Thank you for your consistent, thoughtful presence here. ❤️
Wow, Katherine! What a piece. It flows like unimpeded water. I look forward to following the progress of this amazing endeavor. Yes rivers are persons ( certainly they can be if coporstions are!)
And then there is the aquifer problem. They are being drained! Where to start!
But you have started! Thank you!
Carol
Gosh, Carol!! You are so attentive to writing style. Thank you.
I am thinking about evolving Matters of Kinship to following the rights of nature movement globally and with locally our journey with the Swannanoa River. love, kath
Rights of nature movement - yes. That is a great path to follow.
Thank you, Thank you. Thank you for being a voice for the water. Thank you.
Kin, thank you for your acknowledgement. I know you know this journey.
And thank you so much for restacking!❤️