The Gift of Water
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Originally published in the “Marquette Monthly Magazine,” this compilation of 45 essays is now available in a limited hard-bound edition and also as an eBook.
Edited by Paul Lehmberg, these writings are reflections on ecology, art and the spiritual life.
This volume comes out of a four-year interfaith initiative to celebrate and protect the waters of the Great Lakes Basin.
Included among the writers are poets, artists, faith leaders, journalists, teachers, social workers, physicians, environmental activists,
musicians, and Native Americans.
The first printing of 200 books sold out fast. However, a second printing of 500 hardbound copies was authorized in August, and is now available!
Description
Following the first printing of “The Gift of Water: Reflections on Ecology, Art, and the Spiritual Life” in June of 2023, this modest collection of essays received unexpected heartfelt communications from a wide variety of individuals, some who now live near streams of Colorado’s mountains, in coastal communities of Hawaii, next to Florida’s Tampa Bay, alongside Virginia’s Potomac River, and on a sailboat docked in Washington State’s Puget Sound.
One reader, during formative years of his youth, reminisced about carrying water from a community water tap to his family home, then located in the remote foothills of Nepal’s fabled Himalayas. In thanksgiving for this outpouring of responses, a second printing of 500 hardbound copies was authorized in August, 2023 and will be available on October 1, 2023.
The collection of writings comprising The Gift of Water is intended to serve as a beacon of hope. Modest in scope and positive in intent, this volume, not incidentally, also celebrates the lands and waters of one far corner of North America’s Great Lakes Basin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Our contributors are exactly who they need to be to accomplish these tasks. Our writers have done more than visit this remote and lovely place, all of them have lived here, many of them for decades, some for their entire lives. They know this land and its waters; they love this land and its waters.
This book also seeks to underscore some provocative questions that need to be asked and that, now, demand to be answered regarding how we will live as a global community with what remains of our world’s natural resources. The most recent research on health and environment indicates that our answers to these questions will profoundly affect our quality of life, not for decades but for generations to come.
Originally published in the “Marquette Monthly Magazine,” this compilation of 45 essays is now available in a limited hard-bound edition and also as an eBook.
Edited by Paul Lehmberg, these writings are reflections on ecology, art and the spiritual life.
This volume comes out of a four-year interfaith initiative to celebrate and protect the waters of the Great Lakes Basin.
Included among the writers are poets, artists, faith leaders, journalists, teachers, social workers, physicians, environmental activists,
musicians, and Native Americans.
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