Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people in present-day Marin County.

Each week, we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads

connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

At our Shifting Landscapes Exhibition, we held in London in December, we hosted a series of

conversations with the exhibition's artists and emergence contributors,

coming together in community

to explore the great losses and transformations

both engulfing our outer physical world

and unfolding in our inner landscapes and ways of being.

In this conversation, I was joined by the writer and environmental justice activist and founder

of climate and color, Joyce Lynn Longdon, award-winning Cambodian American filmmaker,

Kaliani Mung, and singer, song collector, and author Sam Lee, to consider how we might rekindle awe and reciprocity

by remembering ourselves as extensions of the changing earth.

Good afternoon, everyone.

So lovely to be here with you this afternoon. My name is Emmanuel Vaughn Lee. I'm the

executive editor of Emergence Magazine and also the curator of this show. And I'm delighted to be

in conversation this afternoon with some wonderful people, friends, who are going to talk about awe, wonder, and the seeds of reciprocity.

There are several themes that we're exploring in this exhibition, the importance of bearing witness

and realizing how we're very entangled with the biosphere, that essentially we are an extension of the ever-changing

Earth. And if we make that realization, body, mind, and spirit, then the way we think, the way we

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