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- Wild Gift Affiliation:
- Recipient, Board Member
- Year of Wild Gift Award:
- 2002-03 (Pilot)
- Current Address:
- Fayetteville, West Virginia, USA
- Email Address:
- luka@stanford.edu
- Conservation/Sustainability Areas of Interest:
- Water - access to water, rural "development", equity, freshwater, moving water, whitewater, waves, spirituality and water, "safe" drinking water
- Current Work Title:
- PhD Candidate
- Current Work Website:
- http://iper.stanford.edu
- Current Work Mission and Description:
- I am currently a PhD candidate studying access to water. The majority of the time I get to ask hard questions and try to see if there are practical ways to answer them. The Wild Gift network continues to provide perspective and inspiration to my work.
My dissertation research considers mechanisms of "sustained access" to rural water including the role of technology, capital, knowledge, social identity, and authority. In addition, I am a whitewater river guide passionate about free-flowing rivers. My related water interests have led me to work in a several countries in Latin America and southeast Asia, and most recently closer to home in California and West Virginia.
- Mentoring Expertise Offered:
- The most rewarding part of graduate school, thusfar, has been helping other students in my program develop their research in ways that are exciting to them, build on their unique gifts, and connect the details of their work with broader patterns of positive change.
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Paul Hawken's 'Hopeful' 2009 Commencement Address
"YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating...."
Read on for the complete Commencement address. Undoubtedly, the Wild Gift IS part of the hopeful, caring movement to which he refers. :-)
Paul Hawken's Commencement Address
University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009
When I was invited to give this speech, I was a… Continue
Read on for the complete Commencement address. Undoubtedly, the Wild Gift IS part of the hopeful, caring movement to which he refers. :-)
Paul Hawken's Commencement Address
University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009
When I was invited to give this speech, I was a… Continue
Posted on May 25, 2009 at 1:52pm —
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p
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i recognized it as one of the moonshine cards (your stepmom makes them, right?) you had sent me a box of way back when. and a CD! can't wait to listen to it today. thanks so much for the awesome surprise! i hope to see you in wild west virginia or wild new england (or both!) very soon!
-p
sorry it took so long to reply. thanks fro getting in touch. i'll be headed to meet with jen osha in morgantown, larry gibson in cabin creek, and hopefully ed and debbie wiley in sundial on 10/25 and 26. it would be great to meet up if we're in the same area. let me know.
warmly,
joshua
C-