Erin Ruble
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Ways of Seeing: What we miss in plain sight
I’m trying to open my eyes to what’s around us before there’s nothing much left to see.
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Ways of Seeing: Take a stand for your neighbors, no matter your views
Most people in my hometown weren’t particularly excited about diversity. But they didn’t want to live in a city ruled by fear and they realized that if one…
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Ways of Seeing: The soil tells a story
The next time you wonder just how a place turned into itself, look under your feet. It might matter more than you think.
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Ways of Seeing: Everyone knows someone who knows someone
“It makes it harder to pigeonhole someone for their politics if you chat with them at your kids’ games or rely on them to fix your car. The…
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Community Forum: Treatment of immigrants is unjust, un-American
“To detain anyone in these conditions for the years it might take to finish removal proceedings is brutal; to do so to people who have no criminal history,…
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Ways of Seeing: ‘Us vs. them’ needs to be left behind
People love opposition. Whether it’s a school rivalry or a business competition, it doesn’t take much difference to turn things into “us v. them.” In fact, it doesn’t…
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Ways of Seeing: Animals have their own languages
It’s dangerous to speak too freely around this house. Drop an unguarded “walk” or “go out” and our collie, sleeping peacefully by the fire, transforms into a leaping,…
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Ways of Seeing: Nature often puts colors on display
Insects have a bad reputation, but so much of summer is bound up in them: crickets chorusing in the hayfields, cicadas droning in the heat, jeweled dragonflies gleaming…
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Ways of Seeing: Thankful for wheel of dark and light
Well, it happened again. Sunday night it started raining and just kept on.
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Ways of Seeing: Appreciation of art, nature & others
The first time I saw a Van Gogh in person I was 15.