{"id":229,"date":"2018-04-28T19:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T02:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecopoetics\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2018-04-30T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T18:43:44","slug":"march-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ecopoetics\/events\/march-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"March 15, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our spring ecopoetics community offering was a lightly-guided contemplative walk along the edge of UBC campus and through the trails of Pacific Spirit Park. Walking through spaces both urban and wild, we were be invited to attend to equinox’s balance and turning: to “find ourselves already home in a world thrumming with resonant meaning” (Derby, 2015, p. 9) while asking the big question of what it means to live reverently in 2018.<\/div>\n
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This event was organized\u00a0by organized by a diverse team\u2014Carl Leggo, Kedrick James, Elizabeth Torres, Amber Moore, Kyle Stooshnov and Margaret McKeon\u2014and supported in part by the Ritsumeikan Seed Fund of UBC’s Department of Language and Literacy Education.<\/div>\n
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Our walk began with a ritual opening offered by Elizabeth Torres and two of her students\u00a0at a look off over the Salish Sea.<\/div>\n
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credit: Margaret McKeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We walked through a light industrial area at the fringe of UBC campus and mused on how composing could be thought of as composting.<\/p>\n

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credit: Margaret McKeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The forest’s mossy limbs enfolded us as we walked for a time in silence.<\/p>\n

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credit: Amber Moore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Walk me through your living patchwork and stitch me somewhere soft.”<\/span><\/p>\n

~Amber Moore<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At particular stops, planning committee members offered poems, teachings and reflections that echoed with the forest’s vibrant greenery and bird-life, ancient stumps from turn of the century logging, and forest-clearing condo construction.<\/p>\n

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credit: Carl Leggo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

the more I look, the more I see
\nthe more I see, the more I look<\/p>\n

I am spellbound as I spell the light in words
\nlike a school of purposeful porpoises<\/p>\n

full of playful propositions
\nfor opening up poetic possibilities<\/p>\n

~ Carl Leggo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A number of poems and reflections from this event have been shared through our blog:<\/p>\n

Triumphal Tangent<\/a> by Kyle Stooshov<\/p>\n

Photosynthesis<\/a> by Carl Leggo<\/p>\n

Curbing the Coast Condo<\/a> by Amber Moore<\/p>\n

Walking Pacific Spirit Park<\/a> by Margaret McKeon<\/p>\n

An Invitation<\/h6>\n

We invite you to walk our route (or part of it) in your own time and \u00a0join in sharing in our dialogue of ecopoetics. We invite to you attend to contrasts of wild and urban and the felt sense of different ways of attending as you walk. You might: talk, be silent, sing, stop, use (or not) a camera, go slow, faster, pause. Watch, listen, touch.<\/p>\n

Here is the route that we walked:\u00a0PacificSpiritParkMap Ecopoetics Long Walk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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credit: Amber Moore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Citation: Derby, M. W. (2015). Place, being, resonance: A critical ecohermeneutic approach to education. New York, NY: Peter Lang.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our spring ecopoetics community offering was a lightly-guided contemplative walk along the edge of UBC campus and through the trails of Pacific Spirit Park. Walking through spaces both urban and wild, we were be invited to attend to equinox’s balance and turning: to “find ourselves already home in a world thrumming with resonant meaning” (Derby, … <\/p>\n

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