Poetry "can take these fragments of our lives [...and...] really conjure something new—not necessarily something whole and complete, but something that's beautiful and something that's empowering and inspiring from these ruins of history and migration.
Such a beautiful conversation with Craig Santos Perez in Episode 8 of A Wild and Beautiful World.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000616041297
Poetry "can take these fragments of our lives [...and...] really conjure something new—not necessarily something whole and complete, but something that's beautiful and something that's empowering and inspiring from these ruins of history and migration.
Such a beautiful conversation with Craig Santos Perez in Episode 8 of A Wild and Beautiful World.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000616041297
Such a great and capacious conversation with Tibetan independence activists Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin Dorjee for Episode 7 of A Wild & Beautiful World: justice, empathy, Buddhism, repression, hostile architecture, the clash of civilizations....it's all here. Enjoy!
"Nyingjey is...an offering of solidarity. You’re... becoming one with the other that's suffering, eliminating the distinction that divides us."
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000615172610
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000615172610
"So much of the way this curious civilization is structured seems to prioritize...enabling us to hide from the difficulty & ambiguity of living inside a world that is itself alive." —David Abram in Episode 6 of A Wild and Beautiful World.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000614028638
"It's about being a part of, and participant in, a world that is shot through with loss, predation, grief, and yet it's all that shadowed difficulty that also makes this world so exquisitely beautiful, so holy."
--David Abram in episode 6 of A Wild and Beautiful World.
Soooo good.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000614028638
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000614028638
Midway through season 1 of A Wild and Beautiful World! If you missed the insights & wisdom of Jeremy Lent, Naomi Klein, Sonia Shah, Bill McKibben, or Kathleen Dean Moore, now is the time to catch up!
Next week will be David Abram, with more amazing folks coming up right behind him: Jerome Foster II, Craig Santos Perez, Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin Dorjee, Lise Van Susteren, and likely one more...
Who do we have to become, in order to preserve the chance of a wild and beautiful world that includes humans? Join me as I try to understand this, in conversation with some of the most thoughtful and visionary people I know, all of whom have spent decades, in myriad ways, working to save what’s precious. Guests include Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Lent, Craig Santos Perez, Sonia Shah, David Abram, Kathleen Dean Moore, Jerome Foster II, Lhadon Tethong and Tenzin Dorjee, Lise Van Susteren, and more. ______ Welcome to A Wild and Beautiful World. My name is Emily Johnston, and I’m a writer and climate activist in search of ways to think about this moment that might help us seize its best possibilities, rather than its worst. Though it’s hard to integrate with our distracted daily lives, many of us know that we’re living amidst a terrible biodiversity crisis, and at the beginning of a long climate catastrophe. What has to change, and how might we have to change, if we want to preserve the chance of a wild and beautiful world that includes us? There’s a lot of critical day-to-day of work, of course: ending fossil fuel use, preserving and restoring forests and grasslands, and much more. But there are also existential questions about how we as a species can avoid making the same mistakes: seeking dominance rather than mutual thriving, and addictively chasing short-term benefits rather than longer-term well-being. So how can we move forward in a way that leaves open the possibility not just of survival, but of a more expansive and inspiring future? How do we take heart from that possibility on days when grim realities threaten to overwhelm us? What can anchor us, and bring us joy? I’m going to open the series with a quote from Wendell Berry. He says: "We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not – the only question we have a right to ask is: What’s the right thing to do? What does this Earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?" Thanks for joining us as we explore this question. If you enjoy these conversations, please make sure to subscribe, and leave a review if you can! I’m committed to making this free and ad-free, but will happily accept donations; if you can easily support it, please do, at glow.fm/awabw. *** Many thanks to Hank Lentfer for the use of his gorgeous sounds--more about him can be found at hanklentfer.net
“We said when they were born, I love you, I will protect you, I will give you the world, [not what] was left torn and shredded on the bargain table after this great going-out-of-business sale, we meant we would give you this beautiful, bird-graced world.”
Kathleen Dean Moore is so fierce and wise--give it a listen!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000612497537
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000612497537
“We said when they were born, I love you, I will protect you, I will give you the world, [not what] was left torn and shredded on the bargain table after this great going-out-of-business sale, we meant we would give you this beautiful, bird-graced world.”
Kathleen Dean Moore is so fierce and wise--give it a listen!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000612497537
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000612497537
"Sometimes [kindness] means waking people up, and that's what movements do...when we build movements, one of the reasons we do it is to bring people back to attention."
Such a wonderful conversation with the stalwart & visionary Bill McKibben.
“It's very important to be connected to your place, even if those places change...wherever you end up, you become a steward of that place...you look after that place because you are part of it."
AWABW episode #3 is up! @soniashah on stewardship, flux, & migration.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-wild-and-beautiful-world/id1675694408?i=1000610906552
