ISN'T IT ALL OF US?
WORLD POEMS BY ANNELINDE METZNER
(Photo by Ariel Poster: Women tend trees with the Green Belt Movement in Kenya)

Friday, January 10, 2014

Our Jewell








Sally Jewell, 51st US Secretary of the Interior




Sally Jewell, our Jewel, 51st Secretary of the Interior,
climber of mountains, kayaker, CEO, mother of two,
(“if anyone can do it, Sally can”)
is giving us back our CCC.

Creating work for our young people, women and men,
planting trees, repairing trails, hacking away invasive plants,
good work for our unemployed, work with great meaning.
Connection with the land that feeds the soul.
Thank you, Sally Jewell!
Already securing a million bucks for the corps,
she has her eye fixed on twenty.
“I was scared of animals.  Now I’m an animal freak,”
says Keisha Alvarenga, feeding a raptor with a gloved hand.
Clear vision!  Let’s hear it for clear vision!
Sally Jewell, our Jewel, don’t stop, move clean and true
to this great goal, our Conservation Corps
for the twenty-first century, our youth back at work,
our veterans back at work,
a hundred thousand jobs!
for our Mother, our Earth, our home.

Annelinde Metzner
Black Mountain, North Carolina




Read this interview of Sally and Keisha from NPR, January 9, 2014.






Click for pictures of the 21st Century CCC in New Jersey.

Sally Jewell climbing Mt. Rainier with five women at sunrise




With the founders of GirlTrek.org


Learn about GirlTrek.  Take a walk.  Join a movement!




Sally Jewell in her kayak










1 comment:

ANNELINDE METZNER said...

I am leaving myself a comment here, just to encourage YOU to do the same!!

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