Season 1 Finale: "Celebrate Endings -- For They Precede New Beginnings"

11/12/2020 43 min Temporada 1 Episodio 10
Season 1 Finale: "Celebrate Endings -- For They Precede New Beginnings"

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Our tenth episode of Unfurling, and the end of season 1! In this episode, we take inspiration from a coaching 'completion' session, and think about: Our takeaways and highlights from having created episodes 1-9 (our listeners are a definite highlight!).The challenges we've experienced in making Unfurling, like technology and imposter syndrome.What we want to let go of as we look ahead; what we trust in; and what we're grateful for. Our thoughts on how season 2 might look a bit different -- namely, a new format with different segments and featured guests.Our hopes for Unfurling. If you'd like to connect with others, or share ideas and resources, you're welcome to join our private Facebook group, here. Thank you for listening -- and we hope to reconnect with you for season 2, in 2021. -----Please excuse Elizabeth's poorer than usual sound quality in this episode -- the microphone had clearly decided to try out the 'strategic non-action' that we mention in the episode ;-)-----References & quotes: ~3: Jonathan Lockwood Huie: “Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.”~5: Episode 5 (Confidence): Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Eclectus Parrots, Praying Mantises~5: Episode 9 (Language): Prairie Dogs~5: Episode 1, 3, 4, 9: References to Suzanne Simard’s work on underground forest networks, and how trees “talk” to each other ~6: Episode 6 (Connections & Networks): “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ~8: Trailer~9: Episode 4 (Listening): Eco-Acoustics and recording 3D sound portraits of primary equatorial rainforests~10: Episode 4 (Listening): Henry David Thoreau: “It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”~12: Episode 2 (Climate Change): David Wallace-Wells: “When it comes to contemplating real-world warming dangers, we suffer from an incredible failure of imagination.” ~12: Episode 1 (Joy and Wonder): “The Overstory” by Richard Powers~16: Episode 8 (Place): John Burroughs: “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”~20: Bonus Episode (About Unfurling & Us): E. O. Wilson: "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesisers; people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” ~27: “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth: “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.”~28: Episode 1 (Joy and Wonder)~29: Development”: “mid 17th century (in the sense ‘unfold, unfurl’): from French développer, based on Latin (from Google / Oxford Languages)~30: Quagga -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga~36: “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” -  Leonardo da Vinci~36: “An Old-World Thicket” by Christina Rossetti: “Such mirth they made, such warblings and such chatWith tongue of music in a well-tuned beak,They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak,”~40: Wu Wei (Strategic Non Action) from the Tao Te Ching (“Do that which consists in taking no action and order will prevail,” -- https://qz.com/876067/the-chinese-principle-wu-wei-eliminates-the-need-for-lifehacks/~c. 41: Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche” by Bill Plotkin -- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soulcraft-Crossing-Mysteries-Nature-Psyche/dp/1577314220~41: Episode 9 (Language):  “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix.~43: “Feeling Good by Nina Simone”: “It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, and I'm feelin' good.” -- https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ninasimone/feelinggood.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.