60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: Shout Out for The Carbon Almanac!

<p>Hello to you listening in <a href="https://discoversouthcarolina.com/columbia" target="_blank">Columbia, South Carolina</a>!</p><p>Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.</p><p>I want to give a shout out to Tania Marien of <a href="https://www.talaterra.com/" target="_blank">TalaTerra</a>  and all the many global folks behind <a href="https://thecarbonalmanac.org/" target="_blank">The Carbon Almanac</a> effort on their 1 year anniversary. You can easily access all the goodness, the book, the resources and more with a link in the Episode Notes.]</p><p>Meanwhile, here are the opening lines of a poem by Jorie Graham reminding us it’s not too late - if we pay attention and act:</p><p><i>The earth said</i></p><p><i>remember me.      </i></p><p><i>The earth said</i></p><p><i>don’t let go,</i></p><p> </p><p><i>said it one day</i></p><p><i>when I was</i></p><p><i>accidentally</i></p><p><i>listening, I</i></p><p> </p><p><i>heard it, I felt it</i></p><p><i>like temperature,</i></p><p><i>all said in a</i></p><p><i>whisper—build to-</i></p><p> </p><p><i>morrow, make right be-</i></p><p><i>fall, you are not</i></p><p><i>free, other scenes</i></p><p><i>are not taking</i></p><p> </p><p><i>place, time is not filled,</i></p><p><i>time is not late, there is</i></p><p><i>a thing the emptiness</i></p><p><i>needs as you need</i></p><p> </p><p><i>emptiness, it</i></p><p><i>shrinks from light again &</i></p><p><i>again, although all things</i></p><p><i>are present, a</i></p><p> </p><p><i>fact a day a</i></p><p><i>bird that warps the</i></p><p><i>arithmetic of per-</i></p><p><i>fection with its</i></p><p> </p><p><i>arc, passing again &</i></p><p><i>again in the evening</i></p><p><i>air, in the pre-</i></p><p><i>vailing wind, making no</i></p><p> </p><p><i>mistake—yr in-</i></p><p><i>difference is yr</i></p><p><i>principal beauty</i></p><p><i>the mind says all the</i></p><p> </p><p><i>time—I hear it—I</i></p><p><i>hear it every-<