Social Justice
I'm excited to do my first twitter chat with the AMAJournal of Ethics. TodaySeptember Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 On Twitter Chat talking About Bioethics, Film and Chasing Mercury! On twitter go to #EthicsChat at noon. ( Photo by Unique Real see on FB)
September Williams Author of "Chasing Mercury" TODAY AT 12 NOON PT -1:45 #EthicsChat
This is sunset over Minamata Bay. It may take a long time for the Minamata Convention to be enacted despite being international law as of August 16, 2017 but something is better than nothing!!! and 148 countries made this happen in all. The last 54 signed to ratify ( only 50 were needed.) Next steps are the negotiating to implement - beginning the outlining of the same in September 2017 in Geneva.
Read MoreLake Michigan has always been important to me. It comforted me after long nights on call when seeing it the next evening as I headed home. I looked out at it with my first cup of morning coffee from my balcony. But Environment Illinois explains, Lake Michigan has been something of a dumping ground for years.
Read MoreThis weekend I had the honor of attending a young friends First Communion at the San Rafael Mission in Marin County. People do not generally think of me as Catholic for good reason. The character Sicily Marshall in Chasing Mercury reflects a bit of mine in an excerpt from Chasing Mercury, Chapter 15, Santa Monica Bay 1960-1962...
Read MoreAs the sun rises, the bus crosses the River Spree, pulling through the gates of Berlin’s Humboldt University. Hundreds of young adults perch in the stone courtyard, some hanging from the balcony, guarded by marble pillars and neoclassical Roman roof sculptures. Guitars in hand, a chorus of ‘C’s serenade them—Cape Verdeans, Cambodians, Cameroonians, Czechs, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans and Cubans. They greet the tardy Canadians, voices filling the sweltering damp dawn with Cat Stevens’s song Baby, Baby It’s a Wild World--
Read MoreSo there I am, Chasing Mercury in the Open Water Rowing Regatta #41, and my tenth. That barge in the background was awfully annoying blocking my view to Cone Rock as I aimed for it. It was a gorgeous day. The water was perfect. My adjusted time was 58 minutes on a 5.3 NM course so a little under 10 minutes per English mile. Yep--I was 5 minutes behind the first place rower--but she was 20 years younger than me--and I was proud to be anywhere on the same water with her. When you do things out in the environment it really pushes you to protect it. Everyday I cry for the children who have never known this kind of peace.
Read MoreThe photo is sunrise on New Year's morning with my daughter Autumn as seen from the Marin Headlands. I remember thinking even those waking up in the horror os Syria or other wars see that sun.
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