KURT RUSSO on a Prayer of Mourning /357

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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How can a relationship with one animal open the door to the depths of humanity? In this episode, returning guest Kurt Russo shares how he came to see the world through Tokitae, a Southern Resident Orca held captive in the Miami Seaquarium for decades. As he mourns Tokitae’s recent death, Kurt reflects on the ways nature gives us signs of the greater mysteries of life. This conversation is equally rooted in the material realities of protecting the Salish Sea, the Snake River, and the m...

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0:47.4	Hello and welcomed for the wild podcast. I'm I am Iana Young today we are speaking with
0:56.3	Kurt Russo.
0:58.3	These correspondences that are telling us, are telling us through her life, through your life, to life.
1:09.0	There's something essentially divine about all of this.
1:14.0	Every bit of it, every bit of it.
1:18.0	I don't have a denominational religion,
1:21.0	but I love nature, and I'm willing to take a risk to understand her.
1:27.0	Kurt Russo is currently the executive director of the indigenous-led nonprofit that is dedicated to the
1:35.4	application of ancestral knowledge to reimagine our relationship to the nature of nature.
1:41.7	He worked the Lummy Nation from 1978 to 2020 in the area of
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