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From Ranching To Writing with Pam Houston

May 7, 2025
Read Time: 2 minutes
Pam Houston
Free Listening, Interviews
Free Listening Through May 20, 2025:  Here Houston takes us through the life journey that led her to buy a piece of ranch land in the southwest corner of Colorado. She knew nothing about ranching but with the help of many people and animals her wandering life became tethered…

Radical Intimacy with the Imaginal World of Nature with Brooke Williams

April 9, 2025
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
As an amateur naturalist, Brooke Williams is constantly awed by his encounters with the wild world. Since a life-altering dream about a dragonfly, the blending of the worlds of mythology and psychology hold him with equal footing with the biological world. After the dream the dragonfly would not be contained…

Wild Nature in Urban Edgelands with Christopher Brown

March 12, 2025
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
Our urban landscape is dotted with abandoned lots. We’ve all noticed them—or not noticed them. These seemingly derelict spaces are often filled with left-behind concrete slabs and littered with old tires, broken-down and rusting washing machines, and other detritus of our throwaway culture. If you stop and look past the…

Exploring the Awesome Depths of the Ocean with Susan Casey

October 23, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
Casey, a chronicler of the aquatic world, highlights the complexity and ecological importance of the ocean’s depths as she shares her personal and historical perspectives on exploring its mysteries. We are oddly unacquainted with its depths and importance, which make up more than 70% of Earth’s surface, notwithstanding its depth.…

Sacred Activism for Mother Earth with Cynthia Jurs

July 31, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Cynthia Jurs
Free Listening, Interviews
There is an ancient Tibetan practice of Earth Treasure Vases. These clay vases are created and empowered to bring healing, stabilization, and immeasurable blessings when they are ceremonially buried in the earth. Cynthia Jurs was given her life assignment by Charok Rinpoche, a 106-year-old lama living in a cave in…

Chickens: An Antidote to Life’s Blistering Pace with Tedra Hamel

May 22, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
Keeping chickens in an urban setting has become increasingly popular in recent years. They not only produce eggs, they give us the delightful pleasure of their company. When feeling stressed and anxious just take a moment or two to pull up a chair outside a chicken coop and let these…

Meditating in Nature with Mark Coleman

May 15, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
Coleman describes his surprising past when he was an anti-establishment anarchist and a punk to finding the teachings of mindfulness. He says both paths are revolutionary, “The Buddha talked about mindfulness awakening as also going against the stream of normative culture and views. And so, in that way, there was…

Wild Animals: Our Natural Allies with Brenda Peterson

May 8, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Brenda Peterson
Free Listening, Interviews
As a young child, Peterson’s original playmates were wild animals. She grew up in a Forest Service lookout cabin in a forest preserve on the border of California and Oregon. Her father was a forest ranger, later to become the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Peterson is directing us…

Awakening in a World in Unprecedented Transition with Duane Elgin

December 20, 2023
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
The collective human family is straddling unprecedented, threshold times. We’re living in the most difficult transition humanity will ever have to make. This situational crisis is so much more than climate change; it’s a whole system change. Yet, despite the extreme nature of our situation, we’re also living in a…

Holding the Feathers of Grief and Joy with Trebbe Johnson

December 13, 2023
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
A new kind of heroism is needed in facing the dire problems of the 21st century. The truth is we can’t confront any emergency, whether it’s personal, local, or global, by hoping and praying that the problem will go away or waiting for someone else to act. Trebbe Johnson suggests that…
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