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"Loss": junk collage, china marker sketch in journal |
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British primatologist Jane Goodall, pictured here attending an event in Los Angeles in July 2019. |
Today, the recently-turned 90-year-old’s work looks a little different – taking place mostly indoors, and with a different crowd. Through her program called “Roots & Shoots,” Goodall empowers young people to create change within their communities. And for her, this work is just as significant.
During a trip to South Africa, where she observed some of the projects local Johannesburg students are heading up as part of Roots & Shoots. Goodall: I think it’s really important, this exchange of information from the elders to the youngers. I was really lucky; I had an amazing mother. I was born loving animals, and she supported that love of animals. I was one-and-a-half years old, and she came into my room and she found I’d taken a whole handful of wriggling earthworms into my bed. Most mothers would’ve [said], ‘Oh, throw these dirty things [away].’ She just said, ‘Jane, I think they might die without the Earth, you better take them into the garden.’ And so she nurtured this inherent love I had in all the insects, the birds, the animals, everybody around me.
It has been a long, empty, hard year since Demura Sensei passed one year ago today. His loyal students are working hard to carry on his legacy. It's so hard to believe he is gone, but we feel his spirit giving us strength and hope in the dojo.
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