DO 192 - Tending Our Dead Ourselves with Joe Orso and Susan Nesbit
painkillersTending Our Dead Ourselves with Joe Orso and Susan Nesbit Joe Orso talks to death doula Susan Nesbit about the many gifts that come with tending the bodies of our deceased loved ones at home. Their conversation covers home vigils, home burials, home funerals, washing the body after death, and how these practices have historically been done by families and communities, not professionals. They also discuss how death, like birth, has become a highly medicalized experience, in which pain-killers and high costs are the norm. Susan, who doesn't take money for her death doula practice, helped found Threshold Care Circle, an all-volunteer organization in southwest Wisconsin that integrates after-death care into family and community life. She and other volunteers supported Joe's family in doing home-based care after his father's death last winter. Threshold Care Circle: https://www.thresholdcarecircle.org/ National Home Funeral Alliance: https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/ National End-of-Life Doula Alliance: https://www.nedalliance.org/ The Oar and the Umbrella (where you can find Joe's "Home Burial" essay series): https://oarandumbrella.substack.com/t/home-burial-essays-after-my-fathers
7 Dec 20231h 6min
DO 191 - Kayaking with Lambs with farmer/author Brian Miller, Josh, and Jason
East Tennessee farmer Brian Miller discusses his new book “Kayaking with Lambs” with Jason and Josh. The book, published by Front Porch Republic, features a panoply of sensorial and spiritual experiences observed over 25 years of farming and animal husbandry. Our conversation slaloms around Brian’s roots in anarchism and how these led him to an agrarian life, the need for renewed manual competency and appreciation for the practical arts particularly among the youth, gender relationships, and the reasonable choice of firearms for homestead protection, and the difficulties implied by rural gentrification. Brian runs Winged Elm Farm with his wife Cindy, blogs at South Roane Agrarian, and can be reached at bmiller@wingedelmfarm.com.
5 Dec 20231h 21min
DO 190 - Doomer Optimism Literary Hour with Sally Thomas and Donald
Sally Thomas joins Donald for another installment of the Doomer Optimism Literary Hour. They discuss her novel Works of Mercy, American poetry past and present, homeschooling, and family life. Sally Thomas is a poet and fiction writer, and author of two poetry collections, Motherland and the forthcoming Among the Living, both from Able Muse Press. Her novel, Works of Mercy, was published in 2022 by Wiseblood Books, and a short-story collection, The Blackbird and Other Stories is coming from the same publisher in the summer of 2024. With Micah Mattix, she co-edited an anthology, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940, which received Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Award in Culture and the Arts. As associate poetry editor for the New York Sun, she contributes regularly to the weekday Poem of the Day feature. The mother of four grown children, she lives quietly in North Carolina with her husband and a dog. Her novel is available from Wise Blood Books: https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/store/p123/Works-of-Mery-by-Sally-Thomas.html
30 Nov 20231h 7min
DO 189 - Permaculture in the Age of Displacement with Evan Welkin and Jason
Jason speaks with Evan Welkin (@ewelkin ) about the general theme of displacement and dispossession, and what permaculture (permanent culture) means in contexts of people increasingly being uprooted from their homes for political, climate, financial, ideological, or other reasons and having to move. They discuss his growing up in a rural Oregon town where the forests were being clearcut and toxic chemicals applied, his experience in Palestinian rights activism and the general Israeli / Palestinian conflict involving two peoples who have experienced dispossession throughout their history, their experience in developing a folk school, ecovillage, and regenerative farm at his wife’s families place in Italy and the waves of shocks (covid, climate, financial) that might force them to leave, his work with an organization teaching permaculture to refugees all around the world, and much more
28 Nov 20231h 27min
DO 188 - Bringing Permaculture to the World with Andrew Millison, Roxanne, and Jason
Jason and Roxanne (@happyholistichs ) speak with Andrew Millison (@andrewmillison ), who runs the permaculture design course for Oregon State, and who produces a serious of remarkable educational videos on permaculture concepts and on projects all over the world. They talk about the importance of water in landscapes, his journey towards permaculture and education, how he sees the permaculture movement growing, applying permaculture in different cultural contexts, the lost opportunity of designing U.S. political borders around watersheds and bioregions, the economics of permaculture, motivating people to grow food, creative arrangements to enable broad scale land access, cutting edge ideas and projects for Andrew, how to address with the ecological problems in the California food system and the rising prevalence of wildfires, and his recent video documenting the work of Planting Justice Andrew currently teaches the for-credit courses Permaculture Design Course (Hort 285) and the Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience (Hort 485) at OSU, on campus and online. Andrew teaches non-credit courses for the general public as well, including the: Free Introduction to Permaculture Massive Open Online Course Free Permaculture Water Design: Drought Proofing Farms open source module Permaculture Design Certificate Course Advanced Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience Andrew also has produced two open source textbooks for his courses that are freely available: Introduction to Permaculture Permaculture Design Tools for Climate Resilience Finally, Andrews excellent Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@amillison
23 Nov 20231h 38min
DO 187 - Thriving the Future with Scott Miller and Jason
In this episode Jason speaks with Scott Miller (@thrivingtthefut) about his podcast and newsletter Thriving the Future, building up his homestead, growing community, holding skills workshops, starting a tree nursery side hustle, and more Scott lives on 10 acres in NE Kansas with gardens, (relatively) new food forests, and a tree nursery. Thriving The Future Podcast focuses on positive solutions to help you Thrive. Including Designing your Intentional life, Homesteading, Gardening, Building Community, and Skills (#SkillsOverStuff). Check it out at http://ThrivingtheFuture.com and the newsletter/blog at Thriver.News.
21 Nov 202350min
DO 186 - Working with Purpose with Nathaniel Marshall and GG
Nathaniel Marshall sits down to chat with Going Godward on vocation, the good purpose of work, and rejecting ease as a means of becoming a more integrated person. Explore meaning, work ethic, and optimism in this warm and enlightening episode Nathaniel Marshall: Twitter handle: @oblatenate Editor: thebluescholar.substack.com, @bluescholarwork Going Godward: Twitter handle: @goinggodward
16 Nov 202348min
DO 185 - Growing Food in Sub/Urban Spaces with Zach Loeks, Tres, and Sim
Tres and Sim interview Zach Loeks, and talk about the problems and opportunities around growing food in sub/urban spaces. Zach debunks many of the myths around maintaining food production in urban landscapes, and we dig into the secrets of lesser-known city fruits. Zach is an educator, author, artist, and farmer based in Canada. Zach Loeks (@zachloeks) - https://www.zachloeks.com/ Tres Crow (@dogeatcrow) - https://www.greenboxus.com/ Sim Gooder (@slimgoober) - https://permapeople.org/
14 Nov 20231h 1min
