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On today's show we confront our ultimate, collective foe--death. We ask, can a friend, also, be found in death?
Author Georgia Weithe discusses her book, Shining Moments, about the death of her father and the surprisingly positive changes it brought to her life.
How about you? Is death friend or foe in your mind? What is the cultural knowledge about death that you call on to help you? Do you wish you had more wisdom about death to draw from? Share your thoughts and stories by adding a comment below.
Our show on Bead for Life last week started a conversation about global poverty and it's one we're continuing this week with Monday's and Tuesday's shows.
Like any global issue, global poverty stands at the nexus of a complex set of issues. At the same time, food, water, shelter, and basic health and sanitation are fundamental needs for everyone and so it stands to reason that something about the experience of poverty is the same, or similar, no matter who or where you are.
Monday's show with Mort Rosenblum of Dispatchesaddresses the larger issue of looking at poverty in a global context. Tuesday's show with Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund highlights the efforts of one person to combat poverty by appropriating the mechanisms of a capitalist economy.
Can the experience of poverty give us insight into how to address it? Is there a politics of poverty that has gotten in the way of the ability of an abundant world to provide for the basic needs of its inhabitants? What has gone wrong in the ecology of humans that there can be great riches existing side by side with extreme poverty? Please add your thoughts below, or leave us a voicemail at 1-877-GLOBE-07
Hello Here on Earth listening world. Recently, in my daily web-surfing duties, I came across something that inspired an idea for a series. It was this TED talk by Margaret Wertheim.
Not only did I immediately want Margaret on the show, but her talk made me think of all the ways to think about, experience, and use all those dusty, passed down female handicrafts. So I started looking around and found non-profit groups organized around female craftiness, “craftivists” using craft as a means of protest, artists elegantly skirting the thin line between craft and art, and communities and families all over the world who have been passing down unique designs for generations.
So I’ve been putting together some shows on the common spark of female handicraft. I don’t mean to be exclusive here—I know plenty of guys who love to knit. I’m interested in how crafts—in the true sense of the word—that have been passed down from women to women are finding new outlets, expanding old ones, and are continuing to be transformed by those who care to pick them up again, and again.
The series starts off next Wednesday when Torkin Wakefield of Bead for Life shares with us how the craft of beading among women in Uganda has not only become a sustainable and meaningful form of income but a grassroots connection with people all over the world who love to make things by hand. You can check out the work Bead for Life does here. And Margaret Wertheim joins us the Wednesday after.
What do you think? Where does craftiness appear in your world? Which crafts do you enjoy? Why? Which seems more important—the tradition of craft or its radical interpretations? Please let me know if there is someone you think should be in the series! Leave a comment below or leave your voice on our voice mail: 1-877-GLOBE-07
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