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    Explore " Robin Wall Kimmerer" with insightful episodes like "Ep 163 Outdoor Companioning", "29. 2023 Book Report", "E43 Blah Blah Blah.", "Pursuing Purpose and Service with Mark Voss" and "The Elf of Plants" from podcasts like ""The Contemplative Life", "Another Finger", "Understanding Kindness", "The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast" and "Nighttime on Still Waters"" and more!

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    Ep 163 Outdoor Companioning

    Ep 163 Outdoor Companioning

    Join us as Dr. Jeanette Banashak shares with us about a new certification program being offered in Outdoor Companioning that has come about as a result of her own lifelong desire to connect with the more-than-human world. Are you a spiritual guide or working in some form of service profession? Outdoor Companioning teaches us how to integrate the natural environment, both in our work lives and in our experience of life overall. Join us as Jeanette speaks about how engaging with the great outdoors can lead to building communities that are sustainable, equitable, culturally proficient, socially just, healing, and so much more.

    Additional Resources
    Website:
    Spiritual Guidance Training Institute - Outdoor Companioning Training
    Book: Belonging by Toko-Pa Turner
    Book: Eco-Emancipation by Sharon R. Krause

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    Forest Bathing, Mindfulness, Deep Listening, Eco-Justice, Tree Equity Index, Eco-Activism, David Abram, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Thich Nhat Hanh

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    29. 2023 Book Report

    29. 2023 Book Report

    This episode I decided to share some of my favorite books I read or listened to in 2023.
    Here's a list of all the books mentioned in this episode.

    Fiction:
    Tenth of December - George Saunders
    Liberation Day - George Saunders
    A Swim in a Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
    Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman

    Philosophy:
    The Creative Act - Rick Rubin 
    The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts.
    Be Water, My Friend - Shannon Lee 
    Pure Meditation - Pema Chodron
    Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
    Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
    How to be a Stoic - Massimo Pigliucci
    A field guide to a Happy Life - Massimo Pigliucci
    Think Like a Stoic - Massimo Pigliucci
    Discipline in Destiny - Ryan Holiday
    Stillness is the Key - Ryan Holiday
    The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday 
    Courage is Calling - Ryan Holiday
    The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell Translation
    The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hahn

    Politics and Political Theory:
    What's Our Problem? - Tim Urban
    The Cruelty is the Point - Adam Serwer
    Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond
    Ghettoside - Jill Leovy
    The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace - Jeff Hobbs
    Charter Schools and Their Enemies - Thomas Sowell

    Parenting:
    Bringing up Bébe - Pamela Druckerman 
    How to Raise Successful People - Esther Wojcicki
    It. Goes. So. Fast. - Mary Louise Kelly

    Sociology:
    Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
    The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté MD and Daniel Maté
    A Hunter-Gatherers Guide to the 21st Century - Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
    10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Account Right Now - Jaron Lanier
    Deepfakes - Nina Schick
    The Art of the Good Life - Rolph Dobelli
    The Good Life - Robert Waldinger
    Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shrier
    Pageboy - Elliot Page

    One excellent book I accidentally left out was yet another great on from Michael Pollan,  The Botany of Desire. 


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    E43 Blah Blah Blah.

    E43 Blah Blah Blah.

    In this episode, Dani discusses language, both their personal journey with languages and how language shapes our worldviews.

    They recommend “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer for some learning on the Potawatomi language and worldview. Also, GenderReveal episode 72 with Vico Ortiz to learn about the ungendering of the Spanish language.

    Lastly, Dani recommends the Indigenous Action post titled, “Tending Sacred Fires: Make Colonizers Afraid Again - Part 3” for some beauty on anti-colonial antagonistic approaches to the far-right and liberals’ perspectives on power.

    For a glimpse into Dani's friendships, check out her other podcast, Better When Awkward, co-hosted by her childhood best friend, Jasmine!

    Go to UnderstandingKindness.com for transcripts, blog entries, and links to the social media accounts!

    Follow the podcast on instagram, facebook, or twitter for more recommendations & posts when a new episode comes out!

    To contact Dani, email UnderstandingKindness@protonmail.com or send Dani a DM on social media!

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    Pursuing Purpose and Service with Mark Voss

    Pursuing Purpose and Service with Mark Voss

    Passion, service, community, and curiosity are the threads that weave the story of Mark Voss. Mark is a consummate educator, farmer, and real estate professional residing in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the founder of Voss Organics and is a Latitude Change Agent

    Like many young people, curiosity and the longing for adventure first lured Mark to venture far and wide from his humble youth in the Midwest. From paradigm-shifting lessons during a Peace Corps service in Africa, a pilgrimage to Masanobu Fukuoka’s farm while teaching English in Japan, and immersion into the field of biodynamic agriculture while starting a 60-family CSA farm, it is evident from this story that Mark has embodied the experiences and lessons to become a wise teacher himself.

    Mark lives and breathes community. His urban farm produces seed starts for his business Voss Organics, which serves the Madison area farmers markets. He is a recently retired public and charter schoolteacher where not only he taught French, but also left a wake of school gardening programs. During his last year of teaching in 2021, Mark and a fellow science teacher created a course for the students called “The Honorable Harvest” that they based on the literary work of “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This special course helped students learned how people and plants have an integral relationship with each other. 

    Mark sees tremendous potential to use real estate as the catalyst for positive social and environmental change. For him, real estate serves as an educational tool to not only impact individuals and families, but strengthen communities and networks of aligned businesses and organizations. 


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    The Elf of Plants

    The Elf of Plants

    This week Vanessa from ‘The Mindful Narrowboat’ vlog got me thinking and so this week we begin to explore how our knowledge and (perhaps) attitudes to fungi are changing and leading us back to older ways of thinking about the environment and our place within it.

    Journal entry:

    “21st October, Thursday

    A Hunter’s Moon swinging high
     Across a highwayman’s sky
     Of racing clouds.

    The streets of Birmingham run wet
     With the glittering jewels of
     Brake lights and shop front signs. 

    Later, 
     A gull soars through the 
     Thermal canyons and valleys
     Under a sky of cut sapphire. 

    Later still,
     The Plough silently revolves over the boat
     Needle sharp shards of light
     At the moment, tilting north. ”   

    Episode Information

    In this episode I read the following poems:
     Emily Dickinson’s ‘The Mushroom is the elf of plants
    Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’ ,
    You can hear Sylvia Plath’s own reading of her poem here: Sylvia Plath reads ‘Mushrooms.’                    

    I also read excerpts from:
    John Clare’s (1827) from ‘October’ in The Shepherd’s Calendar
    Wendell Berry’s (2017) The World-Ending Fire: Essential Wendell Berry published by Catapult.
    Robin Wall Kimmerer (2020) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants published by Penguin.  It is also published in the shorter volume:  The Democracy of Species also published by Penguin as part of their ‘Green Ideas’ series.  

    I also refer to the works of:
    Suzanne Simard (2021)

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    E32 Listen to the Garden.

    E32 Listen to the Garden.

    In this episode, Dani fan-girls over her Garden, but also discusses knowledge that she brings with her when creating a Garden, as well as things that the Garden has taught her.

    She recommends the YouTube channels Fairly Local Life and Rob Greenfield for gardening and foraging tips and some great Garden footage; as well as the Going Zero Waste video on Composting. She also recommends "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer for anyone looking to start a Garden or learn more about the world.

    She also recommends supporting the struggle for justice for George Barlow, and donating to his GoFundMe if you can. Learn more about the ongoing happenings in the case and find numbers to call and email addresses to send letters to on the @IndigenousWomenHike Instagram page. She recommend listening to the Behind the Police podcast for more history on policing, and reading "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a deeper understanding of the history of Indigenous Peoples in the US and with police.

    And lastly, Dani recommends watching the Netflix documentary, Fantastic Fungi for a deeper understanding of how useful and mind-expanding mushrooms and fungi can be.

    For a glimpse into Dani's friendships, check out her other podcast, Better When Awkward, co-hosted by her childhood best friend, Jasmine!

    Go to UnderstandingKindness.com for transcripts, blog entries, and links to the social media accounts!

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    To contact Dani, please email UnderstandingKindness@protonmail.com or send Dani a DM on social media!

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