Hello and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Weistocca's podcast. I'm your host Ronald fell Jones.

So three or four months ago I got the idea to start this podcast where I'd

interview a wide range of knowledgeable and insightful people in search of

wisdom and not just the armchair philosophizing kind of wisdom but

actionable wisdom, ideas and strategies and

insights and techniques that can help us navigate the unprecedented peril and promise of these

uncertain turbulent times who were all living through.

And when I got the idea for Wystalkers a few months back, I knew almost instantly where I would

start my quest for this wisdom, and I knew because I had already interviewed a person who was not only one of the wisest people I've ever met, but a man who embodies the very hard and soul of what I envisioned the wise talkers podcast podcast to be all about and that man is Pulitzer Prize

winning poet Gary Snyder.

What makes this interview even more noteworthy I believe is that it was conducted way back in 1979. And what's interesting

about that is that it's still relevant today. In fact it will always be relevant and

as such I have titled this evergreen inaugural episode of

wise talkers the timeless wisdom of Gary Snyder. Now even though Gary

Snyder is a major figure in American literature and a celebrated scholar and well-known environmental

activist, I recognize that of course not everybody is familiar with Gary Snyder.

So I'll provide a brief overview of Gary's background before replaying the

interview.

But first let me give you the backstory of how I happened to interview Gary back in 79.

I was doing a weekly live one hour interview show in those days called World Views on KVMR Radio in Nevada City, a popular tourist town

in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California.

In many ways my World View Show was a precursor of the podcast I'm starting now.

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