Readers write: Eco-friendly choices, Estonia鈥檚 music, and more
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Eco-friendly activities
Regarding 鈥�For the birds: Can humans turn empathy into solutions?鈥� in the Oct. 7 Monitor Weekly: The decrease in the world鈥檚 bird population is alarming. In 2013, I even blogged about seeing fewer of them.
There are things humans can do to help. For example, I let my Johnson grass go to seed. The painted buntings love it. I plant milkweed for the monarch butterflies. I have rocks in my birdbath so the bees can drink without drowning. My purple martin house was home to six pairs this year, and countless hummingbirds stop by my sage bushes on their spring and fall migrations.
Pam Lampson
Corpus Christi, Texas
Estonia and music
Regarding 鈥�His music celebrates simplicity. So does the building in his honor鈥� in the Aug. 19 & 26 Monitor Weekly:聽Thank you for sharing such a moving account of Arvo P盲rt, a fine man and inspiring composer. My 12-hour visit to Estonia in 1992 was unforgettable. It included hearing a concert in a beautiful Lutheran church and walking up a hill to visit a government building.聽
The love of choral singing was very apparent in Estonia. Mr. P盲rt鈥檚 compositions evidence so much of the country鈥檚 quiet stillness as well as the vibrant life of its courageous people.
David Barker
Barnstaple, England聽
Soul of the city
One of the Inklings in the Oct. 21 Monitor Weekly quoted former Puerto Rican Gov. Luis A. Ferr茅, reading, 鈥淎 city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.鈥� It is my belief that Mr. Ferr茅 should have added, 鈥渁s long as that soul is not manipulated by the newspaper.鈥� Thanks for keeping up the good, reliable news.
Argeo T. Quinones-Droz
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Peace prize
Regarding 鈥�A peace prize befits Ethiopia鈥檚 leader鈥� in the Oct. 28 Monitor Weekly:聽What a wonderful, beautiful editorial about a wonderful, beautiful man: Abiy Ahmed, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ethiopian prime minister. His inspired, creative, and loving leadership has brought a sense of peace and harmony to a large area of Africa that has been without for so long.聽I was so inspired, chills ran up and down my spine!聽Thank you to the Monitor and to the writers for this editorial.
Daniel Overton
Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida
