Sustainability Planner
I tell everyone I picked my graduate program on the premise of a quarter-century identity crisis: If I didn’t have a “plan” for what was next in my life, I might as well write plans for other people as a profession. Now, the reality is that city planning paired very well with my environmental geography …
Continue reading "Planning for change and the stories we tell ourselves"
This post was going to be about my latest (and final) academic accomplishment: my Master’s of City and Regional Planning from THE Ohio State University, conferred in this lucky “22” year. This post was going to be about the advice a wise woman once gave me to “be a fish in a different pond,” after …
for every one who has come and gone for all the songs left unsung for all the hours left and the years ahead may we walk with tenderness no word left unsaid
Remember when I said earlier this year that I was going to start my own public Instagram blog celebrating my writing? Yea, me either. I tried to start that project twice before I let it take up its rightful place in the "Retired Projects" bin. So what have I been doing instead? Well, I'm on …
I've been thinking a lot about circles. I think about how every day, I walk in circles around our pond, circumventing the cattails and the banks grown high with grass, repeating steps and yet refusing to back-track behind me. Making loops, like tying ribbons – holding on tight to this beauty before me. I think …
Continue reading "Coming Back Around: Circular Development, Connectivity, and All Energy Has No End"
This post has been updated. It's taken me a long time to find my way home. Though physically residing in my childhood town – the place where it all began, you could say – I have been mentally and spiritually unmoored since my ceremonious exit from OU. Blame it on the burnout, or my deflated …
Bethany N. Bella 