Tapping into the beauty of telling our own stories and making our own meaning β€¦Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ Νβ€Œ 
 ALYNDA MARIPOSA SEGARRA on Life on Earth /321 ➑  

This Week’s Episode

How do we sustain nourishing roots in a time of displacement? This week, guest Alynda Mariposa Segarra invites listeners to examine their relationship to place, comfort, and survival as they discuss their newest album LIFE ON EARTH with Ayana. Through the art form of music, Alynda holds together the complexities that come with wanting and needing to run away from oppressive systems while simultaneously needing to confront what is happening right in front of us. Alynda Mariposa Segarra is a songwriter/storyteller who performs under the name Hurray for the Riff Raff. They are a Nuyorican queer artist born and raised in the Bronx, who got much of their musical/political education from the anarcho squatter punk scene of NYC.
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Community Conversation

Join For The Wild friend Sophie Strand in a live conversation with Ayana Young on our Patreon!

We invite folks to get cozy with this lovely community and to come with the comments and questions that call to them. We deeply value our thoughtful listener community and are so thrilled to get the chance to dive deeper with past guest Sophie Strand together. The conversation will take place this Sunday, January 29th at 4pm PST. 

This offering is for members of our Patreon community, who make it possible for us to continue releasing For The Wild episodes.

The link to join the conversation will be available for our Patreon supporters on the β€œGo Deeper” and β€œAbundance” tiers, so if you haven’t already joined us there, there is still time to sign up and get access to events like this in addition to  extended podcast episodes and more! 
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Atmos: Dr. Bayo Akomolafe on Slowing Down in Urgent Times

Our dear friends at Atmos Magazine have adapted For The Wild’s conversation, Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times, for their digital publication. You can read their introduction and see their visual accompaniments here.

January Episode Highlights
 TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture /318 ➑ 

TRICIA HERSEY on Deprogramming from Grind Culture

Guided by her new book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto and fervent calls for real, deep rest, returning guest Tricia Hersey joins Ayana to unwind the complicated ties of exhaustion and exploitation. This conversation is the sacred balm so many of us need as we face the grief of knowing that the systems we are born into will not serve us and will not bring us true, liberated rest and life. Drawing deep inspiration from her ancestors, histories of marronage, and long standing traditions of Black resistance, Tricia leans into the prophetic dreams that have long allowed for life outside of systems of exploitation. You can learn more about her work and order the book at thenapministry.com.
 JAROD K. ANDERSON on Reclaiming Limits /319 ➑ 

JAROD K. ANDERSON on Reclaiming Limits

Bringing us into his world of nature, awe, and magical poetry, guest Jarod K. Anderson reminds us that our human journey is worthy of just as much love and affection as the natural world around us. When we come to nature with intention, how might it guide us towards love and inspiration? In a time where so many of us are feeling lost, confused, and not connected to a purpose, we often abdicate our power to make meaning in favor of buying prepackaged narratives about who we are based on what we consume. Tapping into the beauty of telling our own stories and making our own meaning, Jarod and Ayana counter what we have been taught about worth.
 

Pine Chant

If you listened to Jarod K. Anderson’s episode, you probably noticed the expansive composition β€œPine Chant” that was featured throughout. Created and shared by Sara Fraker and Lachlan Skipworth, β€œPine Chant” is inspired by tree-ring growth data from the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, specifically twelve Arizona trees and their responses to changing environments. 

β€œTree-ring growth measurement sequences were selected for three species: Pseudotonga menziesii (Douglas fir), Pinus edulis (Colorado pinyon), and Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa pine). These data, which record growth in Arizona trees as far back as 1772, were used to control various musical parameters of rhythm and texture. Skipworth’s lyricism is exquisitely rendered through an electronic β€œaura” of acoustic sounds created by our wind instrumentsβ€”resonances made with human breath, cane grasses, and the bodies of trees.

The collaboration was designed by oboist Sara Fraker, whose creative work often explores intersections of ecology and music.”


β™« Listen to Pine Chant.  Learn more. 
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KINSHIP: World as Archipelago

This is the last chance to register for advaya’s upcoming course KINSHIP: World as Archipelago. Several dear friends and previous guests of For The Wild will be a part of this course, and it is sure to be world opening and thought provoking. As a special offering to our community, advaya has shared the discount code FTWKIN20, which will take 20% off of the course fee. Register before January 31, 2023.

Initiation Song from the Finders' Lodge

Please bring strange things.
Please come bringing new things.
Let very old things come into your hands.
Let what you do not know come into your eyes.
Let desert sand harden your feet.
Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.
Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps
and the ways you go be the lines on your palms.
Let there be deep snow in your inbreathing
and your outbreath be the shining of ice.
May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words.
May you smell food cooking you have not eaten.
May the spring of a foreign river be your navel.
May your soul be at home where there are no houses.
Walk carefully, well loved one,
walk mindfully, well loved one,
walk fearlessly, well loved one.
Return with us, return to us,
be always coming home.

- Ursula LeGuin
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