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#104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories

#104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories

FromWhat Could Possibly Go Right?


#104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories

FromWhat Could Possibly Go Right?

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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Jun 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For over fifty years, through twenty books and one Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism.She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:An exploration of the boundaries or “binding” of gender The relationship between matter and spiritThe value of writing, “a sort of miracle, of something being created”That “people need meaning… as much as food, water, and air” and that meaning often comes through storiesSupport the showComplete Show Notes
Released:
Jun 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilities and ways humanity might step onto a better, post-pandemic path.