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 # Ecocentricity Blog: Building a Bridge

 

##### By Guest Blogger, Chantel Lanier

 

 

 Feb 14, 2017 11:30 AM ET

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[Building a Bridge](http://www.raycandersonfoundation.org/articles/building-a-bridge)

Hi! My name is Chantel Lanier, and I’m John’s wife. Back in December he invited me to be a guest blogger, and I’ve been kicking around this post in my head ever since. The headline comes from a poem I’ve always loved called **[“The Bridge Builder,”](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52702)** by Will Allen Droomgoole. It’s about an old man who crosses a stream and then turns around to build a bridge over it. Another traveler remarks, “’You are wasting your strength with building here;/ Your journey will end with the ending day,/ You never again will pass this way.”

Lately, when I’ve heard some people talk about climate change, it has reminded me of this poem. This is because a lot of the dialogue around climate change sounds like the traveler’s attitude.

**[Read more.](http://www.raycandersonfoundation.org/articles/building-a-bridge)**



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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