Severson Dells

From the Rock River Times

By Don Miller, Education Director, Severson Dells Nature Center

“Maybe the meaning of life will turn out to be a verb, something one does, some work, some endless process, rather than an end-state. Maybe…a person can find the meaning of life on the very day she’s wearing big, black, rubber boots and an embarrassing hat,” Kathleen Dean Moore states in her book Pine Island Paradox.

Moore is a philosophy professor at Oregon State University, essayist, activist, parent and lover of all things green or flowing, and she is returning to Severson Dells Nature Center Sunday, Feb. 15. Starting at 6:30 p.m., she, along with Paul Bogard, will present readings and thoughts from their books that explore the beauties and mysteries of the world in which they walk.

Bogard teaches at Northland College in Ashland, Wis., and is editor of an anthology about dark skies that tells the stories of what we will miss if the nocturnal wilderness vanishes. He will be reading from that anthology Let There Be Light: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark.

Essayist Moore is known for explorations of the cultural and spiritual connections to wet, wild places—ancient forests, Northwest coasts, wild rivers and windswept islands.

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