October 28, 2016
![A train carries coal near Ravenna, Ky., Aug. 21. Throughout the mining region of central Appalachia – West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee – mountaintop removal mining has flattened more than 500 mountains and led to more than 2,000 miles of steams being filled in, according to The Alliance for Appalachia. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn](http://dev.globalsistersreport.org/files/stories/images/CNS-CoalTrain%20%281000x667%29.jpg)
" . . . . With sweet and scarless sky stir in my ears, speak there of God’s love, O live air, of patience, penance, prayer: World-mothering air, air wild, wound with thee, in thee isled, fold home, fast fold thy child."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, from "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe [1]" in Poems 1918 and referenced in Marya Grathwohl's Climate change, spiritual practice and Mom's meatloaf [2], published on Global Sisters Report