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- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run with the Wolves
Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother—or one of her thousands of other names,” says Dr. Estés. “She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. Thus she comes to us in billions of images, but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate Heart.” With Untie the Strong Woman, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites us to reconnect with “the fierce and loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but never tame—she who flies to our aid when the road is long and our hearts are broken, ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of our creative souls.” - Dr. Tara Swart – The Source
For the first time, a Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at MIT reveals the surprising science that supports The Law of Attraction as an effective tool for self-discovery and offers a guide to discovering your authentic self to access your best life now. - Chick Check Day 3
Honestly, I think it’s Day 3. I don’t think I heard their cheeping until Day 2. I decided to convert my tool shed/ dump shed into a bird nursery, since I plan to infuse my chicken flock with some new blood. So look out for a yard sale coming soon… By then - Sharon Scott – Low Power FM for Dummies
There are approximately 2000 low power FM radio stations in the United States. That number will grow as more licenses are issued in the coming years. Low Power FM For Dummies walks you through the key steps you need to take to establish, manage, and help run one of these hyper-local broadcast operations. You’ll get easy-to-follow help on everything from making all your gear work to financing your operation, managing your staff, and complying with rules and regulations. - s2e14 Ernie Brill, Ernest Brawley & Beverly Parayno talk about life and writing
The audio garden is bursting with Spring plenitude. Tony Robles talks with ERNIE BRILL about life and writing poetry, and ERNEST BRAWLEY about his life as a novelist. BEVERLY PARAYNO brings us a bouquet of wildflowers, a sampling from a lecture she gave recently to the Gold Country Writers group in Auburn, CA. More on banning books and Martha Cinader’s meditation on manifesting the publication of her most recently completed novel. - Beverly Parayno – Wildflowers
Wildflowers is a long-awaited debut by the Californian writer Beverly Parayno. In these nine unforgettable stories, spanning several generations and traversing the Philippines, the Bay Area, and Ireland, Parayno illuminates the emotional and psychological journeys of Filipino and Filipino American girls and women experiencing fear, desire, loneliness, and despair. Wildflowers speaks to everyone who has ever had to find a strength and resiliency they never knew they had. - Ernest Brawley – Blood Moon
In the year 1880, an impoverished, half-English journalist named Eduardo Dawson, hitching from Mexico for the American border, meets three fellow travelers who could not be more different. The first is Phoebe Surgener, a wry, strong-willed American ranch lady of obvious wealth and influence. The second is Pleasant Honeyflower, a seedy, fast-talking phony preacher. The third is Marcela Sandoval, a magically beautiful Mexican shepherdess. - Ernest Brawley – The Rap
The roiling action of Ernest Brawley’s novel The Rap takes place in and around a penitentiary much like San Quentin. The time is the early 70s, when George Jackson, Angela Davis and others were agitating for prison reform, and the authorities were doing everything they could do to thwart them. A young, sympathetic guard, Arvin Weed, attends night classes at a local college in pursuit of a dream to break away from his worst nightmare: working at the prison forever, like his father. But his reputation as a Vietnam vet rifle marksman draws him unwittingly into a conspiracy to murder revolutionary, black militant leader, William Galliot, who’s just been sent to prison. Arvin’s evil cousin, Wasco Weed, also a recent arrival to the prison, fancies himself a criminal genius, and has, in fact, been directly tapped by conservative political eminences to assassinate Galliot, the revolutionary. Wasco shrewdly manipulates everyone in his orbit, including his voluptuous wife, Moke, an almost supernatural creature given to midnight swims in the ocean and driven by a ferocious craving for money and power; Fast-Walking Miniver, a young guard and the warden’s scapegrace son; Big Arv, Arvin’s loutish father; Lobo Miniver, the urbane and opportunistic warden; and even Wasco’s own mother, Evie, the bawdy proprietress of a whorehouse. Moving from the tragic to the comic, the obscene to the exalted, the real to the surreal, The Rap is the ultimate - Ernie Brill – Journeys of Voices & Choices
Ernie Brill’s rich, memorable poems reflect his encyclopedic and kaleidoscopic mind. From Brooklyn street life to war in Southeast Asia and occupation in the Middle East, his words do not rest. Yes, they become those journeys to another way of seeing every place and time he brings us to, envisioning a way out of here when the going gets kind of rough - Baby Muscovy
This lady found the perfect nesting spot under the deck where the hawks can’t get to her babies. I heard them chirping and put them in this box to keep them safe. Mama wasn’t going to leave them alone in there. I’ll have to move them in a few days to something bigger. - s2e13 William Giraldi on manhood, sacrifice, body building and blood
It’s still poetry month here in the US and we are celebrating, with poetry brought to us by the People’s Poet, Tony Robles. Tony interviews WILLIAM GIRALDI, author of “Hold the Dark” and “The Hero’s Body.” Their conversation ranges from manhood, sacrifice, body building, John Keats disguised as the Bible, what you can’t get out of your blood, and the masculinity of speed. Our featured spoken word artists are JOSEPH JASON SANTIAGO LACOUR, TOMMI AVICOLLI MECCA and SABRENA TAYLOR. Your host, Martha Cinader, continues her season 2 journey on the sometimes imaginary path to publication, and what that has to do with gardening and dreams. - William Giraldi – The Hero’s Body
At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi and devastated his family, provides the pulse for The Hero’s Body. In the tradition of Andre Dubus III’s Townie, this is a deep-seeing investigation into two generations of men from the working-class town of Manville, New Jersey, including Giraldi’s own forays into obsessive bodybuilding as a teenager desperate to be worthy of his family’s pitiless, exacting codes of manhood. Lauded by The New Yorker for his “unrelenting, perfectly paced prose,” Giraldi writes here with daring, searing honesty about the fragility and might of the American male. An unflinching memoir of luminous sorrow, a son’s tale of a lost father and the ancient family strictures of extreme masculinity, The Hero’s Body is a work of lasting beauty by one of our most fearless writers. - WTF am I supposed to eat?!
My new full-color PDF recipe booklet, WTF am I supposed to eat, consists of 44 pages containing 37 simple, nutritious, delicious, fast & easy, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free meal options for omnivores who want to release processed foods! Each recipe includes a photo, and full nutrition info. - s2e12 Climate Resilience Spring Special
Martha Cinader goes into deepthink mode with Meredith Leigh, author of The Ethical Meat Handbook and thinker of thoughts still asking to be manifested. With the optimism that blossoms with Spring, the conversation focuses on alternatives to capitalism, honoring indigenous wisdom, revolutionary madness, books that inspire and more! This one-hour special is an ongoing seasonal series produced in association with Laura Lengnick, founder of Cultivating Resilience, and Martha Cinader for Listen & Be Heard. The purpose is to create an open discussion with experts that is both informative and imaginative and inspires a path to nurturing and resilience for everyone. - La Marr Jurelle Bruce – How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind
“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he explores the mad in the literature of Amiri Baraka, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange; in the jazz repertoires of Buddy Bolden, Sun Ra, and Charles Mingus; in the comedic performances of Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle; in the protest music of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar, and beyond. These artists activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. Joining this tradition, Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls “mad methodology.” Ultimately, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness. - Kyle P. Whyte – Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocenes
Portrayals of the Anthropocene period are often dystopian or post-apocalyptic narratives of climate crises that will leave humans in horrific science-fiction scenarios. Such narratives can erase certain populations, such as Indigenous peoples, who approach climate change having already been through transformations of their societies induced by colonial violence. This essay discusses how some Indigenous perspectives on climate change can situate the present time as already dystopian. Instead of dread of an impending crisis, Indigenous approaches to climate change are motivated through dialogic narratives with descendants and ancestors. In some cases, these narratives are like science fiction in which Indigenous peoples work to empower their own protagonists to address contemporary challenges. Yet within literature on climate change and the Anthropocene, Indigenous peoples often get placed in historical categories designed by nonIndigenous persons, such as the Holocene. In some cases, these categories serve as the backdrop for allies’ narratives that privilege themselves as the protagonists who will save Indigenous peoples from colonial violence and the climate crisis. I speculate that this tendency among allies could possibly be related to their sometimes denying that they are living in times their ancestors would have likely fantasized about. I will show how this denial threatens allies’ capacities to build coalitions with Indigenous peoples. - Ismatu Gwendolyn – There Is No Revolution without Madness
… I am bound together at the seams by the thought of a new world//what it might cost us//what we stand to gain. I write to you bereaved from watching the avalanches of death manufactured by the United States, via their bloodchildren (the United Nations, the so-called state of Israel, the existence of the US Dollar, and more). I am bereaved from the war in Sudan, knowing that a war of similar groundings burned my grandmother’s home to the ground. I write to you feeling grief bloom in my bones. - Otto Scharmer – The Essentials of Theory U
The Essentials of Theory U offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer’s classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren’t fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention and actions originate. Scharmer calls this lack of awareness our blind spot. He illuminates the blind spot in leadership today and offers hands-on methods to help change makers overcome it through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U. And he outlines a framework for updating the “operating systems” of our educational institutions, our economies, and our democracies. This book enables leaders and organizations in all industries and sectors to shift awareness, connect with the highest future possibilities, and strengthen the capacity to co-shape the future. - Chris Crass – Towards Collective Liberation
Toward Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. Chris Crass’s collection of essays and interviews presents us with powerful lessons for transformative organizing through offering a firsthand look at the challenges and the opportunities of anti-racist work in white communities, feminist work with men, and bringing women of color feminism into the heart of social movements. Drawing on two decades of personal activist experience and case studies of anti-racist social justice organizations, Crass insightfully explores ways of transforming divisions of race, class, and gender into catalysts for powerful vision,strategy, and movement building in the United States today. - Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics
Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.
