What a wonderful conversation with Fr Pete the Wilderness Priest as we talked about getting into Nature - Pop Culture Style. Father Pete Nunnely is an Episcopal priest in the Washington DC area and is on the cusp of his first book being released out into the wild!
Catching Hope: The Hidden Spiritual Wisdom of Fishing
We round-robin’ed it with three nature-centric Pop Culture items for each of us - could be movies, shows, books, music. Here’s what we came up with:
Fr PeteField of Dreams (movie)A River Runs Through It (mostly the movie, but also the book)Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
EdThe Way (movie)Orbital (book by Samantha Harvey)Finding the Mother Tree (book by Suzanne Simard)
MaryAnnTiny World (AppleTV Nature Documentary)Into Thin Air (mostly the book, but also the IMAX movie)My Neighbor Totoro (Studio Ghibli movie)
We also snuck in a few other connections…
* The Lord of the Rings (of course) and its emphasis upon harmony with the natural world versus exploitation of resources
* Radiolab’s recent podcast episode, Forests on Forests - incredible insights of what is found in the canopy of the gigantic redwoods of the Pacific Northwest…
Our next PCPH is on Wednesday, May 6 at 12:30pm ET as we talk about the AppleTV show, Shrinking, with our guest Dr. Amber Groomes- a real life therapist - to help us reflect on this show about therapists! We won’t be necessarily talking about a specific episode but instead some senses of what we have seen in the show as a whole over its (so far) three seasons.
Off to the woods!
MaryAnn and Ed
