"Earth’s weary lovers are tired, perplexed, and battered from all directions. Their hearts have so often been broken. It’s hard to go on, but it is morally impossible to quit. How do Earth’s protectors find the heart to continue the struggle?" ~ Kathleen Dean Moore
Kathleen Dean Moore's new book Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth's Weary Lovers, to be released June 14, 2022, promises to offer solace, inspiration and hope.
To find out more attend a live on zoom book launch on on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 6 p.m. PDT. The event will feature an interview-style conversation between author Kathleen Dean Moore and the book's illustrator, Bob Haverluck, as well as music and book giveaways. Register Here.
"We'll think together about how we might collect our thoughts, confront our dismay, obliterate our obstacles, gather our courage, summon our communities, and reclaim our laughter and joy for the work ahead."
This book launch event is hosted by the Spring Creek Project and co-sponsored by OSU Press, Grass Roots Books & Music, OSU's Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative, 350 Seattle, 350 Eugene, Corvallis Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Safina Center, the Post Carbon Institute, and McKenzie River Trust.
University of Oregon's (Corvallis) Spring Creek Project "brings together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word and the arts to envision and inspire just and joyous relations with the planet and with one another."