Robin Wall Kimmerer in Conversation with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Role of the Writer
The writer can validate all of those directions and those human impulses to be asking where should I best spend my energy. Anne Shipley would love to hear exactly what medicinal properties we were referring to so I should say that dandelions have a powerful diuretic. Pissant Lee the French phrase wet the bed, piss the bed and there are many impolite English folk names as well. We're lucky to have as part of the audience this evening David Abraham whose books Spell of the Sensuous was given to me when it was pressed into my hand. He asks you Robin is there something inherent in traditionally oral cultures the cultures of face to face storytelling that necessarily entails this kind of intimacy
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