A Big Sur Podcast

FIRE ADAPTED COMMUNITY TOWN HALL
October 25, 2022 at the Big Sur Grange.

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In other fire related news: Interview here with Chief Matt Harris!

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After reading Kerri's book I get a chance to talk with her. We're on opposite ends of the country but with zoom and a microphone we are instantly connected. Still mind blowing. We have a good talk.

Thank you for joining us in the conversation.

Visit Kerri Maher's website.
Visit Shakespeare and Co the way it is today (online)!
Check this old info: Henry Miller Library goes to Paris, 2014

THANK YOU KERRI!

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Matt Harris and I are sitting along the creek a few hundred feet up in "Emil's Canyon" behind the Library. It is quiet and the sun is breaking through the canopy as we talk with each other.

More about Big Sur Fire Here!

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Link to Jeremy Slate's Canyon recording of Fire on The Mountain circa 2002!

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Thank you Mac for stopping by to make some noise!

“If Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Philip K. Dick had a love child, the result would be Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow: a disturbing dystopian future shot through with unconventional wit and humor.” –Matthew J. Pallamary, author of Land Without Evil and Spirit Matters.

Links to Mac Music and Art:
Mac Books and Home
The Mac Talley Trip
Mac Art
Mac on Spotify

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A conversation between two very accomplished writers and thinkers:
Pico Iyer & Father Cyprian Consiglio.

This wonderful episode was recorded pre-covid on June 6, 2018! Please share it!) 

The two of them, with the help of the audience, touch on the meaning of life and what happens after death (!), Narcissus and Goldmund, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, the Trappist's life, Silence, the Monastic Life, the Apophatic tradition, Leonard Cohen, Vaclav Havel, Patrick Leigh Fermor,  Annie Dillard, Emily Dickinson, the Camaldoli Hermitage, Henry Miller (yes! again!), EROS as pre sexual and post genital, and much, much more...

Books by Pico Iyer
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Books by Father Cyprian Consiglio
The God Who Gave You Birth: A Spirituality of Kenosis
Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality
Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation

Music by Father Cyprian Consiglio
On Spotify
On YouTube

If you want to read/buy any of these books we prefer you come for a visit to either the Camaldoli Hermitage bookstore or the Henry Miller Library bookstore. As much as Amazon, with their fast delivery and reduced price, helps to spread the word, small bookstores provide a service worth supporting! Thank you!

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A long way from Big Sur!

Reading the book Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb is an amazing adventure of international intrigue, extremely high drama, and a unique history lesson about some very important aspects of the latter part of the twentieth century. I hope you will enjoy hearing some of Dr Kassenova's story in this conversation as well as when you read her book.

Thank you to  Margarita Kalinina-Pohl of the Monterey Institute of International Studies for connecting me with Dr. Kassenova and for recommending her important book to me.

Links below to some of what we are talking of.
(including recommendations from Dr. Kassenova)
Togzhan Kassenova website.
Roza Rymbayeva - Zaman-ai   
The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin 
Apples Are From Kazakhstan 
Dimash Kudaibergen   
Otyrar Sazy
Dombra, the Instrument
Semipalatinsk Test Site

Please let us hear from you. email us with any comments, critique, suggestions, we'd love to hear!

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Through a long tradition, an extraordinary community, amazing players, trials and tribulations, the Big Sur Softball League always gets back to home plate ready to toss a coin again!

For this podcast not enough time as usual but a wonderful romp through some of what has been happening and, of course, a report on the 2022  season and it's cliffhanger final game!

Thank you Commissioner Chris Counts!
and thanks to:
Big Sur State Parks.
Players and their families.
Ump's and their patience!
Audience and their howls!
Ira Comello, current commissioner.
J.C. Fogerty
Phil Robinson
Mike Scutari
& wooden bats!

Link to youtube video of the 2022 Final Game / courtesy Jovian Larmour

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Kelly Sorenson & The California Condor!

We see the beautiful Condor soaring over the Big Sur Coast every day!
This is thanks to an ongoing effort for over 25 years by Kelly Sorenson and others.
 
In this podcast episode we speak with Kelly who has been the Executive Director of the Condor re-introduction program since its inception. We talk about DDT, Peregrine Falcons, nesting near, and not so near, getting to know birds as individuals, lead poisoning, wildfires, and much more.

BEST PLACE TO FIND OUT MORE, INCLUDING FOLLOWING CONDORS ON WEBCAM. GO HERE: https://www.ventanaws.org/who-we-are.html

Thanks again to Kelly Sorenson
(btw. Kelly also plays a mean Bass guitar! 😊 )

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A wonderful conversation with Big Sur State Parks Superintendent Marcos Ortega.
 
We speak of growing up in Big Sur, being the Superintendent of Parks, managing increased traffic on the coast, St. Francis Church, Apple Pie, CalTrans, 7/11 in Salinas, hippie parents, the Naval Facility,  crawdads in the Big Sur River...and so much more!

A few other Big Sur folks in the podcast:
Sula Nichols
Richard Mole
Steve Beck
Kenny Comello
Peggy Horan

Please email us with comments, suggestions and critique!  Thank you for listening!

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This episode is unusual.
(best with headphones!)

I have been traveling in Georgia for three weeks and I am now in a small town, Oni, close to the border between South Ossetia (many Georgians prefer calling it the Tskhinvali Region),  Russia and Georgia.

Earlier during my visit I drove the road from Akhmeta in Kakheti to Omalo in Tusheti over the notorious Abano pass. This episode is a narration of that drive.

Here is a video that illustrates pretty well how gnarly the road is.

The music intro and outro is a song Shen Alazano (Tushetian Song) performed by Lela Nakeuri & Chveneburebi.  (a wonderful band that I hope will play in the Big Sur mountains one day).

Please email any comments/suggestions.

THANK YOU!
Magnus Toren

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