Unwinding the Wreath

Colleen M. Proppé
11 min readFeb 21, 2021

A perspective on the environment and lifestyle habits at 50

Professional Windsurfers and a Sea Turtle Surfacing at Ho’okipa Beach, Maui Northshore, Christmas Day 2020

Everything I learned in Ecology and Evolution thirty years ago at Colby College was true, but I still went on and lived selfishly for love, family and the comforts of lifestyle. Now, I am realizing how drastically we must change to protect people and planet. No one wants to believe it’s wrong to keep having as many kids as you want, yet the Earth’s carrying capacity

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Colleen M. Proppé

Life-long artist and designer. I love creative writing, live music, acoustic guitar, golden doodles, border collies, nature, cycling and organic food. She/her.