Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

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

Each week we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality.

There are some voices that can cut through the noise and smoke of our present tumultuous moment,

and make sense of what we are experiencing,

offering a touchstone of truth to which we can return.

Author, eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and dear friend, Joanna Macy, is one such pathfinder.

Her life and work has been cultivated by a resounding

ecological awareness and a recognition of the possibilities of transformation that exist

at the core of the destruction and despair unfolding around us.

This week, in a very special conversation from our archive, Joanna Macy reflects in the threads woven throughout her life.

From her first experiences of heart connection with the living world on her grandfather's

farm, to her anti-nuclear activism in the late 1960s and her ongoing work with deep ecology,

Joanna has exemplified an ethic of care for the Earth.

Advocating for her return to an ecological self that recognizes our interdependence with the living world,

Joanna considers how we might further bring love, courage, and connection into service

during this time of climate catastrophe, remembering that we are and always have been home

on this earth.

I would like to begin with just centering a minute and a grateful prayer.

Beloved, Mother, Father, a lover, Earth, our larger larger self our greater body are so grateful to be granted a human life right now at this time of such

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