Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist

Discovering Global Environmental Interconnections

Archive for May 11th, 2007

The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering

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This fabulous Mothers Day idea was posted by a enviro writer and friend Suzanne Elston at her gorgeous blog Your Earth.

“On a buffety, blustery early summer day, when the news was bad and the sky turned yellow, a strange thing happened in the town where I live.”

Two grandmothers take a stand in a local park with the single goal of saving the world. They don’t speak, they don’t act, they merely stand silently all day until people begin to ask what they are doing. While some laugh, other begin standing with them, until across the country thousands upon thousands of women – grandmothers, mothers and daughters, stand together. United and silent.
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11/05/2007 at 12:46 pm

Posted in Interconnections

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