This episode features Josh “Bones” Murphy- an award winning director and producer- to discuss a feature documentary he recently directed for Patagonia titled: Artifishal. Artifishal is a film about wild rivers and wild fish that explores the high cost—ecological, financial and cultural—of our mistaken belief that engineered solutions can make up for habitat destruction. The film traces the impact of fish hatcheries, and the extraordinary amount of public money wasted on an industry that hinders wild fish recovery, pollutes our rivers and contributes to the problem it claims to solve. On the back of a successful screening of Artifishal last month at the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Deep Water Initiative team wanted to hear a bit more from Josh and spread the word about a powerful film that has much to say about our relationship to wildness.

For more information on the film, please visit: www.patagonia.com/artifishal.html

Josh's production company: https://www.liarsandthieves.tv/josh-murphy

Artifishal will be available to view on iTunes, YouTube and Amazon at the end of October 2019.

Lyrics:

Staring into the eyes of the blind

Wondering what you might not find

Cover me while I take this

Into your eyes

Wandering through the mountain high

War and peace are on divided sides

Cover me while I take this

Into your eyes

I open my hands to show you the way

Grab it and I swear that you will stay

Cover me while I take this

Into your eyes

Copyright 2019 Charlie Forbes

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Lyrics:

I once spoke to a tree

He reached out to teach me

About memories of a lost time

When plants and people could

Dance hand in hand

Beneath the starry skies

Ancient medicine of an age

When human beings weren’t afraid

To feel what science keeps lost

And keeps us stumbling in the

Dark, dark hallways of shadows set ablaze

I said

Even if I can learn to see

The challenge at hand, it still tortures me

The plants and people of our sweet mother Earth

Are crying for love, crying out ‘cause they’re hurt

Strong with your roots in the ground

Listen close don’t hear a sound

Not even a car will pass by

All through the years you’ll abide

In blissful, tranquil states of life

I say thank you to the tree

I healed you, you healed me

We are one through the fight

Working together for the light

Of universal harmony

If I’m doubting the way

Drop a branch so I’ll pray

You’re my wishing tree I’m your sun

We’re both warriors, we are one

Copyright 2019 Charlie Forbes

This episode features Dr. Ken Otter, an associate professor in the Master’s of Arts in Leadership and Co-director of the Leadership Center at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. He has taught over 150 classes at the university level, and has more than twenty five years experience teaching, studying, and developing cutting-edge programs in transformative learning and leadership.

For more information regarding upcoming events and workshops on surfing and leadership, please visit Ken's website at:

https://www.wisdominthewaves.co/

One of Ken's recent blog posts on surfing and leadership:

http://smcleadershipblog.org/2019/02/wisdom-waves-surfing-art-leadership/

Ken's faculty profile at St. Mary's College:

https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/node/142966?back=node/6405

Lyrics:

Even if God’s nothing but a dream

I’ll close my eyes and wish to fall asleep

To find myself in a forest made of clouds

Where I can rest my weary soul somehow

I’ll wash my soul in the monsoon summer rains

Like Jesus and John did before we came

I’ll build a boat like Noah for the storm

And watch the desert of my life transform

I’ll live on honey that I find in the trees

And build my bed of grass and fallen leaves

So I can feel my heart close to the ground

Touch the Earth and pray that we don’t drown

4am I rise to meet the day

Chant a Psalm and sing to praise His Name

Fill my heart with love and taste the Word

That floods the sea, the sky, the stars, the world

Crossing the River Jordan

Crossing the River Jordan

Crossing the River Jordan

Crossing the River Jordan

Copyright 2019 Charlie Forbes

This episode features Dr. Elizabeth McAnally, a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Elizabeth discusses her work on an integral water ethic and its extensions into daily life. She has recently published a book titled “Loving Water Across Religions: Contributions to an Integral Water Ethic” whereby she explores the relationship between humans and water within three world religions Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In addition to serving as the newsletter editor for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, Elizabeth has been creatively imagining how to expand her academic work into other contemplative practices, which she hopes to use to help foster compassion for water and change how humans interact with the natural world.

For Purchase of Loving Water Across Religions from Orbis Books (Ecology & Justice Series):

https://www.orbisbooks.com/loving-water-across-religions.html

Forum of Religion and Ecology at Yale:

http://fore.yale.edu/

Elizabeth featured in the March Newsletter of FORE:

https://mailchi.mp/yale/forum-newsletter-march-2019