Although there were many great love letters & poems in the group that I was in, I found Jenna DeBoth's and Mikayla Boen-Wira's to be the ones that I really enjoyed the most and the ones that I wanted to braid with.
Firstly, I wanted to comment on the medium in which Jenna wrote hers. The limerick style was fantastic! It really blends both of my fields of study -- English and biology -- quite well. The addition and rational behind the word "Hyperbole" was hilarious due to the fact that limericks are all about hyperboles. Mikayla and I both took a letter approach, but that is where our stylistic similarities end.
Jenna and Mikayla took a bit of a hypothetical approach to their assignments. They both wrote to the idea of a person. Jenna's was to a "perfect" eco-literate person, and Mikayla's was to her future children. Mine, however, was to a friend of mine who I believe to be far along on the path to eco-literacy. Seeing as I wrote to a person who actually exists, I was able to bring in some specific eco-literate activities (ethical eating, commune living) whereas Jenna and Mikayla mentioned some more general ideas of eco-literacy (which isn't meant to sound rude / discrediting).
I think one thing that we all agree on is the complexity of what it means to be eco-literate. As Fritjof Capra states in his 2007 article "The definition of sustainability implies that in order to build sustainable communities, we must understand the principles of organization that have evolved in ecosystems . . . [t]his . . . is what we call "ecological literacy"" (10). In one way or another, all three of us touched upon this idea within our writing (re: commune living, Mikayla's children looking back to her time).
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