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What Happens When Polar Bears Leave: Marybeth Holleman |
Excerpted from "What Happens When Polar Bears Leave" by Marybeth Holleman, appearing in Crosscurrents North: Alaskans on the Environment, edited by Marybeth Holleman and Anne Coray and published by University of Alaska Press. Read by Marybeth Holleman, author of Heart of the Sound. A North Carolina transplant, Marybeth has lived in Alaska for more than 20 years, and is still caught breathless by Alaska's wild beauty. Marybeth's website. |
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"I was thirteen on the first official Earth Day. Same age as my boy now. After school, I walked the neighborhood alone, thinking of the planet and of my adult life before me. It was the first time I'd thought of the Earth as a living entity, as something I could affect. I scanned the sidewalks and roadsides, looking for litter. I picked up one soda can beside the road, all the litter I found that day. Just one, but I still feel the coolness of that thin empty container, see a glimmer in the afternoon sun, still savor the heart-skipping lightness I felt the rest of the day. But one soda can is nothing. Did no good. What does?" |
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