Imagining The Earth

CCSP's Environmental Literature class with professor Drew Ward is always an excellent week of learning, laughter, challenging new ideas, and of course reading.  This semester was no exception.  As soon as Drew arrived on campus, the students welcomed him fully into our community; ready to grapple with all the new thoughts he would present to them throughout the week, and ready to "re-imagine the earth."

 

 As the premise for the class, Drew challenges us to consider that our worlds have been imagined for us - in some ways falsely - by all the different influences in our lives.  Using some literary greats such as Wendell Berry, Aldo Leopold, Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman, we thought about how to re-imagine the world for ourselves in new and different ways.

And as usual, we took some time out of class to travel up to Drew's favorite waterfall in Belize, Big Rock Falls!

 

Swimming in the pool at the base of the falls