Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Futuresteading
E69 Lisa Wells ~ Making a life at the end of the world
Jade speaks with Lisa Wells, award-winning poet, essayist and author.
In her new book, Believers: Making A Life At The End of the World, Lisa seeks out and learns from trailblazers and outliers around the world who are pursuing radically hopeful lifestyles -- even in the face of climate despair.
There's so much to glean from this conversation: stories and lessons from those living the change, the treasures that await outside the norm, the beauty of bird language, the mess and wonder of non-tech-mediated human relationships and how to sow a fruitful future.
As Lisa puts it, it can take a lifetime to learn how to live -- but hearing from others who have made an art and science of living like tomorrow matters sure helps speed up the process.
SHOW NOTES
- It's not her first writing rodeo but it's definitely her first book; it took six years!
- She interviewed those who were on the absolute edge of convention. What can we learn from them?
- Do human beings have an innate capacity to be beneficial contributors?
- Growing up in a DIY sensibility
- Finishing her education at wilderness school
- Transformation inevitability
- Reckoning with the reality that we need to make significant change
- Pushing back on binary perspectives and stake-out positions
- Making our transformation more attractive: Living in community, re-wilding, growing, trial and error
- The physical intimacy of being on her knees in the dirt for the sake of future generations
- Recognising that we are just creatures on the planet with a very short lifespan
- Wilderness school: becoming rooted in her bioregion
- Learning birdsong as a foreign language
- Dismantling domestication
- Owning what it means to be in relation to others who you are reliant on
- Playing the role of translator for the 'outsiders'
- Managing balance as an empathetic person
- If you want to be in relationship, you need to be willing to throw some chips on the table
- Her vision of a fruitful future (without devices and with a whole lotta mess)
- Why it takes a lifetime to learn how to live
- Being freaked out by being immortal
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