BeWildReWild is a loosely-knit group of volunteers with a passion for wild things. It is also a special fund within Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for the purpose of exploring three questions:
- What do you/we mean by wild?
- What changes are needed for us to live within the bounds of sustainability?
- How can we create a wilder, more beautiful, more biologically diverse, and a more enduring Mississippi River Watershed?
And here at the BeWildReWild Forum, it is a place for visioning, debating, storytelling, teaching, and learning.
Commentary is the lifeblood of this forum. Reply keeps the blood flowing. Individuals wishing to submit a commentary on wildness related subjects typical of those across this website should also indicate the specific plant, animal, or insect with which they most often identify. Potential commentaries should be emailed to rrossgipple@gmail.com. Posted commentaries will include the writer’s name and our illustration (avatar) of the writer’s preferred life form. Avatars will not be assigned to those who reply.
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Wild Times
by Leland Searles
In the summer of 2012, the Iowa Brood of seventeen-year cicadas emerged. In the mature-oak lawns of Des Moines, Iowa, in the South-of-Grand area, one could find newly surfaced bugs creeping up stems, splitting their old skins, and struggling out with crumpled, moist wings. Soon, the branches above hummed with their din. In hand, their …
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Channelization and Its Discontents
by Leland Searles
Rivers are central to our lives in ways we don’t often realize. Cities and towns across the Midwest were started along rivers, often at the confluence of a main river and a tributary. We are distant from the reasons for those choices. Still, no matter what the landform of our individual places of residence, flowing …
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The Three Questions
by Joseph Plum
1. What do you/we mean by wild? Wild is a lightening strike from within a smile. A question whose answer is balanced all the while on your ability to decide what impulses coincide with elements derived from within the Mother Ocean of our natural mind. 2. What changes are needed for us to live within …
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Beautiful, Stunning, Welcoming
by Jill Shore
Wow. This may be the most well-done website I have ever visited. Immediately when my eyes engaged, my emotional response was the sense of “beautiful,” “stunning,” “welcoming.” As I continued on, I read (saw, identified, felt) a statement (maybe even a fundamental belief) that I absolutely do not bear witness with. Yet I still felt …
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When we think of wild
by Courtney Chandrea
When we think of the wild, in our mind’s eye we see something like this: In a dark jungle, the foliage is choking out the light of the sun. A ferocious beast sneaks its way through the undergrowth. A caucophony of sound bursts out of the bugs and birds hiding in the green. Or maybe …
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We must choose to be lovers of the wild or not. What say you?
by Mark Edwards
Let’s blog a river of words we can explore, develop a wild language we can find freedom in. Wild are the words which wake in us a world where we are but part of a community, composed of cores of consciousness connected by corridors of common dreams, flowing passages in a river wiggling with all …
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Wild Times
“If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.”
George Washington Carver