How does deep listening to nature promote biodiversity and a deeper relationship with the natural world? We discuss the book THE SOUNDS OF LIFE: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the World of Animals and Plants. Followed by The American Thanksgiving story is one of cooperation and coexistence between white European settlers and the native peoples. But the real story is much darker. How does this Thanksgiving narrative get the history wrong? We discuss the history, the memory, and the meaning of Thanksgiving in the contemporary relationship between the United States and Indigenous people.