Today's podcast comes from a talk given at Tree of Life Community on the wisdom of John Muir.  Mary will touch on the idea that understanding ourselves as Nature and fostering our relationship with Nature is a mode of healing and finding ourselves.  Sometimes it feels as if life loses its magic, or we do, or our work does.  We have a sense of unease, feeling unsettled and uncertain, especially in these times. Life, we feel, gradually loses its flavor and we lose interest in the things that once satisfied.  This sense of discontent continues to grow as the false dichotomy between humanity and Nature is perpetuated by a culture that continues to indoctrinate us to believe that we should accumulate more debt to get more things, to make us feel better about the fact that we don’t have meaningful work or real relationships.  John Muir has some wisdom for us about how Nature can heal us from this discontentment, restore us to well-being, and inspire our passion.  

Today's conversation features Trebbe Johnson who is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places, The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved, and 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places.

Our conversation touches on the relationship between humans and nature, beauty, grief touched by beauty, and the power we have to make and notice beauty anywhere and at all times.

Welcome to the Watering Whole with Mary!  Official launch will be Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Spring Equinox - so look for the first episode then!