Saving Eagle Mitch by Chepaitis Barbara;
Author:Chepaitis, Barbara; [Chepaitis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 3408711
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013-03-02T00:00:00+00:00
Later on, much later, when I actually had time to think, I asked myself where those alternate voices in my head came from. What in my life had taught me to ask the USDA to rethink its position? For an eagle? A bird of least concern?
I realized there wasn't just one thing, but an accumulation of lessons from many sources. My mother's insistence on continued, lifelong learning was in there, as was my father's teaching on the importance of responsibility to the environment and its creatures. Pete Dubacher's compassion, and my husband's inviolable integrity, were part of the mix. And there were people at the outer edges of my life, people whose lives and work gave me words to articulate what I believed in my most nonverbal soul.
There was Wendell Berry, whose poem âManifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,â advises us, âBe joyful, though you have considered all the facts.â There were the folk singers Magpie, who wrote a song called âHawk and Eagle,â which says, âTo make this mountain journey is no easy climb.â Their friends, folk singers Kim and Reggie Harris, who wrote a song called âAll My Relations.â The chorus says, âA voice from on high says give it one more try. All my relations, speak to my soul.â
Yes. All my relations. Including an injured eagle from Afghanistan.
Though it was a small thing, just one bird, and the world wouldn't change as a result, I knew this was important. I wouldn't back down from that. As Pete Dubacher said about addling Eagle Victoria's eggs, they'd have to hang me first.
Not that I was any less tired, mind you. I just knew that being tired didn't matter. As the SEALs say during Hell Week, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
I no longer minded.
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