Summer shadows

Photo made today, near where I live in Northwest Portland, reflecting on a  lovely peaceful weekend at Sue’s house. She’s feeling better, but we aren’t pushing it. Weather was perfect, and we had a couple of zoom meetings and a long stroll. We spent time in her back yard, enjoying the refuge she has created there.

A couple of weeks ago, Sue sent me a three-minute documentary about the work of photographer Camille Seaman. Lest the video is not available outside the USA, Seaman’s website features her photography and is also a joy. I ordered Seaman’s book Melting Away, and we studied it together this weekend, poring over every page, every photograph. It sits on the knife-edge between celebrating the beauty of the polar regions and despairing about the horrors of climate change.

Sue and I wonder what is the best we can offer the children we love, given climate catastrophe. Maybe it’s to strengthen both their connection to nature and their resilience. Not to frighten them, but to help them learn to adapt, to cope, to preserve what they can.