HOT WEATHER READS

Where Are We? On these excruciating hot days in Santa Fe, Landt and I are doing something. With fans spinning, we are closing in on our publishing project, "WIND AT OUR BACKS: Clean Energy Through the Ages." With an illustrated ebook, audio and print editions, the project is deeper than a dumpster-dive on Google. Our personal experiences and journalism over time interweave the history of wind power from the ancient panemone to today's turbine.

And I'm touring through my worldwide 20,000+ images on my Lightroom catalogue – weathering through the heat in India. There I found an image of a quote from Mahatma Ghandi I must share. It reflects my sentiments about the current state of the world – and the weather.

For years, Landt and I led Visual Journeys photo tours with an emphasis on Morocco and India. In Northern India, we visited Amenabad, the site of Gandhi’s Sabarwati Ashram. Took my breathe away when finding this quote on a side wall.

Framed on tobacco colored board, I found this image on the side wall of was painted blue like an oriental landscape – pentimento contours and mist. The wind was not always at Ghandi’s back: he was assassinated in 1948. I wager the quote to have been originally created long before his death. To this day, it reads as follows,

”I do not wish my house to be walled in on all sides and my

windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all winds to be blown about my house as freely as possible – but I refuse to be blown

off my feet by any.”

– MAHATMA GHANDHI 

If wind and weather are your thing, I cannot recommend more highly Lyall Watson's "Heaven's Breathe: A Natural History of the Wind." And the two hottest reads of the day – both of which I read when they came out – are: "THE UNIHABITABLE EARTH: Life After Warming" by New York Times writer David Wallace Wells and "THE NEW CLIMATE WAR: The Fight to Take Back the Planet" by Penn State's Michael E. Mann.

Both writers speak in individual ways of "urgency and agency" What can each of us do other than hope, doom – deny? DO SOMETHING!

Facing into the wind and dodging puddles of blood on the charnel grounds of Mt, Kailas, pilgrimage leader Abbott Joan Halifax from Santa Fe's Upaya Zen Center gathered us to chant. Roshi Joan opened with "we all have weather..." I made KORA, a video of the trek experience to be found on my StoryShards Youtube channel. https://youtu.be/JcusVgG4Ypo

No headwinds around here. Landt's manuscript is complete. On a daily basis, Lisl faces into the wind and tracks the most recent developments in the clean energy industry. Working on design and illustrations, phase one is an ebook edition of "WIND AT OUR BACKS: Clean Energy Through the Ages." Not surprisingly, many wind related memes and memories emerged from my Lightroom catalogue. Photo montages and vintage illustrations take unexpected configurations. Early fall 2023 is the target for the ebook.

SUPPORT LISL & LANDT COMPLETE THIS PUBLISHING PROJECT

Video: WIND AT OUR BACKS – Clean Energy Through the Ages

With your financial support, Lisl and Landt Dennis will hasten the time to realize their relevant publishing project "WIND AT OUR BACKS: Clean Energy Through the Ages.” Audio, ebook and print, this three-stage book is an illustrated independent publishing project in collaboration with IngramSpark. Ingram is the largest book distributer in the world. "WIND AT OUR BACKS: Clean Energy Through the Ages” will be on Amazon. And marketing is part of the plan.

FINANCIAL GOAL $15,000

A writer photographer team with 12 illustrated books to their credit, Lisl and Landt Dennis are experienced journalists and publishing professionals. Senior pros, their titles and Lisl’s biography are on her new website linked

below. Lisl was the first woman staff photographer on the Boston Globe. Landt was a correspondent on the Christian Science Monitor. As freelancers living in New York City, the team traveled the world on assignments for major magazines, book publishers, and as photo tour guides in diverse cultures.

Part One

"Wind at Our Backs" 

LANDT DENNIS 

Covers the history of windmills

from the ancient Persian panemone

(500-900 A.D.) to the 70s-80s evolution

of modern day turbines developed

by visionary engineer Bill Heronemus at

the Wind Energy Center, UMass, Amherst. 

Story | Education | Inspiration | Adventure

Part Two

"Wind at Our Backs"

LISL DENNIS

Picks up the story

with the development of today’s 

turbine. She includes interviews

and personal stories from visionaries, 

engineers, and activists working within 

the intersectional technologies of the

wind industry who are making 

groundbreaking contributions to 

the clean energy movement. It's

about ingenuity an evolution. 

Wind turbines as sentinels of hope.

Profiles | Tech | Evolution | Imagination | Hope

Story upon story: “Wind at Our Backs" will tell them, and address, as well, naysayers, nimbyism, and anti-turbine environmentalists. Wise wind farm siting and its impact on indigenous culture’s rights and practices make for compelling story telling. How the industry is rising to the bird-bat-blade challenge. New technology from MEGGER in lightning and grounding systems defend against damaging storms.

Not newbies to publishing, Lisl and Landt Dennis are working seniors who seek $15,000 in support funding to complete their current illustrated publishing project (ebook, audio and print). We need your contribution. From StoryShards Projects, "WIND AT OUR BACKS: Clean Energy Through the Ages" is an up-to-date illustrated educational contribution to the clean energy conversation.

Since those early days, a turf war is ensuing between the fossil fuel industry and a variety of evolutionary clean energy sources, including solar, wind, hydro and more. With upscaled technologies, wind farm installations are cognizant of skillful siting and mitigating impact on the environment, wild and marine life. That's why wind turbine towers are taller and rotor blades smaller in diameter: this better opens throughways for migrating birds – safer than high-rise windows or perhaps the family cat delivering a feathery breakfast in bed.

We look forward to thanking you for your contribution from atop the nascelle of a very tall turbine. Finally, here’s an Apple News link to a video of a virtual journey from TOTAL ENERGIES. It narrates how wind power is produced and why it's one of the most competitive clean energy sources today. https://apple.news/AyfU6KaSpQFe3UHh4L0HPSw  

Wind at Our Backs – for One and All

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Lisl & Landt Dennis

StoryShards Projects

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