Mother’s Day 2021: Five Staff Picks by Orion Staff May 6, 2021
Photograph: Wolf Ademeit
FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS,
Orion has curated some of the best writing and photography about the relationship between people and nature. This Mother’s Day,
Orion staff selected five of our most memorable recent pieces about motherhood, about the strength and compassion, the joy and fatigue and courage sustained by all mothers of the world.
Spring 2021
Art: Gustav Klimt, Mutter mit Zwei Kindern (Familie), 1910 | 2012 legat peter parzer, Wien, Austria
“Offill allows her characters to mother in a plurality of ways: giving birth to children of their own; offering child care for the children of neighbors or relatives; educating or advocating for the children of all. Mothering, in the world she draws, can be a wide-ranging act. Love of the young is capacious. Caring for their lives has no biological requirement.”
PoultryWorld
Namibia ramps up poultry production
With poultry imports into Namibia banned amid bird flu outbreaks in numerous European countries, the country’s largest poultry producer has called on the poultry sector to show that it can be self-sufficient.
Namibia has been steadily increasing local poultry production over the last 5 years with significant growth specifically seen with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in some European countries have resulted in the suspension of live poultry, birds, and poultry products into the country. The country’s largest poultry producer, Namibia Poultry Industries (NPI), has called on all poultry producers in the country to use this opportunity to show that Namibia can be self-sufficient and meet total local demand.
Do you sometimes feel that the demands of life are squeezing you so tightly that it is hard to breath and regain a calm mind? Problems are cropping up faster than weeds in a garden, and your to-do list is growing exponentially faster than your “it’s done” list.
All of this can lead to a tsunami of tension. Staying focused, calm, and engaged is a struggle.
Many people hear this and just shrug their shoulders. “That’s just life. There is no other way to respond when stress boils over,” they conclude.
But there
are solutions and effective approaches for dealing with even the toughest stress. It just requires you to learn, and then practice, some basic skills.