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 …
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"
I have been writing the words for this post in my mind now for weeks, maybe even months. Thoughts have been bubbling up, spilling over, fumbling over my tongue like a baby's first words. Finally, this morning, the thoughts came in a wave -- a crescendo. It's finally time to share. I've been struggling to …
I've been writing my way through life since I first learned how to hold a pencil. I've nearly written it all -- I've captured storybook fantasies in elementary school, responded to prompts for appraisal in middle school, reported in-depth articles, published my own poetry books, and slogged pages of research reports for my undergraduate education. …
Bethany N. Bella 