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Kinward Podcast(Re)kindling the Home Fire with VERONICA STANWELL & BEN STOPFORD of Deepen Your Roots | Kinward 29 đâIt IS an illusion that everything is broken,â says Ben Stopford late in this spacious conversation with two collaborators deeply rooted in the British Isles: himself and Veronica Stanwell of Rooted Healing.At any hearth where we gather, Ben reminds us, we can invite each other to turn towards what is deeply beautiful. And we must, because âthese things need tending.âYes: our thriving, our loving, the âmore beautiful world our hearts know is possibleââthese things are not in some far off future maybe someday. Theyâre all around us, and we can choose every day to not...
2025-10-212h 04
Kinward PodcastWe All Know (Thank You) | Kinward 28 [Moonday School] đLast night was our first hard freeze. The summer plants are done. This year, for me, the end of the summer garden is very clearly the beginning of Crone season. The moon last night, not quite full, was a Crone moon. My Crone guardian has been guiding me through some difficult conversations in these last few weeks: conversations about accountability, power relations, containment. This year, as these conversations unfold, as these leaves yellow and these waters freeze and this yearâs harvest is weighed and measured and put up, Iâm putting a Crone face on.
2025-10-0610 min
Kinward PodcastMoney Stories & Love Gifts with GEORGIA LEE HUSSEY, CFP | Kinward 27 đâHow do we talk about [wealth] without me telling you that you have plenty?â Georgia Lee Hussey asks in this episode of Kinward Podcast. âBecause thatâs not helpful. YOU need to know that you have plenty, in order to take action in a way that is meaningful.âGeorgia works to develop this inner knowing of "plenty" among her clientsâwealthy progressives who engage her firm Modernist Financial to help them structure their wealth around their valuesâin many ways, including by asking them to entertain a broader conception of what wealth is. To cultivate a felt understanding...
2025-09-211h 20
Kinward PodcastWild Stumbling with Heidi Schmalz | Kinward 26 [Moonday School] đ"The only stable footstep is a step that makes contact with terra firma," says Kinward listener and biologist and my friend Heidi Schmalz, in this woodsy exploration of âprocess not productââof walking off trail in the tangled woods, with wide open eyes and no destination, as Heidi does every day in the summers in the course of her job surveying for rare and sensitive plants.Heidi proposes the one-step-at-a-time attentiveness that you need to deploy in places like these as a valuable practice for the times weâre in, when it feels increasingly like the trails weâve be...
2025-09-0221 min
Kinward Podcast"Add Some Love & Give It Time" | Kinward 25 [Practicum] đWhatâs your growth edge into the more beautiful world your heart knows is possible? And who's on the other side of that growth edge, calling you into that more beautiful version of yourself? Who's nudging you? Who's alongside you? I lost a very dear friend and mentor a few weeks ago, Jim Howell. He was a culture weaver: a person who used his clear seeing and charisma to strengthen the whole web of relationships he was responsible for. Remembering him with old friends after his memorial last weekend, I could feel that tending still shining in us...
2025-08-0920 min
Kinward PodcastLARISSA KAUL on Disintegrating Empire | Kinward 24 đIn the ritual theatre and âEmbodied Dreamingâ spaces that Larissa Kaul facilitates, Iâve learned and felt things far more subtle and interesting than what Iâve been able to access inside of more static practice structures. I think this is because I encounter an alive integrity in Larissaâs work that does not demand conformity to the structureâbut instead invites integrity in response.In their practice spaces, the intention is to root into a warmly curious, expressive, liberated presence that Larissa calls "High-Integrity Play."In this state, in alignment with a wider web of wisdom bo...
2025-07-242h 03
Kinward Podcastđ A Threefold River | Kinward 23 [Moonday School] đWhat have your scars taught you? If your deepest scar is a door, what threshold does it mark? Have you crossed it yet? How do you know youâve crossed it?Mine have taught me the spiral. Snake (shedding), ouroboros (snake swallowing her own tail), maid / mother / crone, labyrinths, all great stories, the deep eddies at river confluences, the whole river, the water cycle: these are spirals, cycles of birth, becoming, integration, death, rebirth. Little deaths and big ones. Growing bigger, moving closer to center. The rebirth of shedding and the rebirth of birth....
2025-07-1420 min
Kinward PodcastDivination Orientation | Kinward 22 [Moonday School] đA tiny spider has made a web in the tiny tunnel of my scrying stone. Thank you, tiny spider teacher, for modeling tiny opportunistic weaving. In the spirit of resonance, Iâm going to try this, too. Today, Iâm trying it with a short, sweet, windblown, leaf-rustling, mostly unedited glimpse into a learning edge of mine, a feeling into the ways I orient my (amateur and effective) divination practice.Iâm naming this glimpse Moonday School, and maybe itâs a tolling, resonant invitationâmaybe itâs opening up a space for a new kind of episode, an...
2025-07-0713 min
Kinward PodcastRICH HATFIELD on Buzzing Springs & Humming Summers đ | Kinward 21 đBefore I started working with Rich Hatfield, I more or less thought that âwildlifeâ started with birds and went up from there. But a brood of baby birds needs thousands of caterpillars to grow, fledge and leave the nest.Thatâs a lot of insects. And thatâs Rich Hatfieldâs delightful, diverse and beautiful world. Rich Hatfield is a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society, the only international conservation organization exclusively focused on invertebrates. His yard in Portland, Oregon is a little swatch of native Willamette Valley prairie abuzz athrum achomp and humming with insects. He has been w...
2025-06-251h 30
Kinward PodcastROBIN PACE on Patterning Capacity | Kinward 20 đâWe donât have to pattern toward fear,â says Robin Pace early in this 20th episode of Kinward podcast, recalling an incident where she flipped an oar boat in the middle of a class IV rapidâon her very first trip as the new owner of Winding Waters, a whitewater expedition outfit based in Joseph, Oregon.I know Robin as a thoughtful craftswoman of containers for connection between people, and between people and land and water. Sheâs a skillful steward of conversations among humans and currents and canyon wrens. I wanted to hear more about her vision and...
2025-05-261h 21
Kinward PodcastScrying a Water Way with ROBIN PACE, River Runner [Immersion] | Kinward 20[I] đIn this short and playful Immersion, the first episode of the second season of Kinward Podcast, my friend Robin and I make contact with the mystery via river rocks with holes in them: windows that water opened.There arenât many people Iâd rather look at water with than Robin Pace, a rooted adventurer, whitewater river guide, cast iron sourdough chef, and wayfinder. As long as weâve known each other, Iâve admired Robin for the way she moves through the world balancing hard-won skills, intelligence, palpable love (including a deep love for fun), and craft.
2025-05-1239 min
Kinward PodcastANTONIA MALCHIK on Care-tending the Commons | Kinward 19 đâI think one of the most fundamental things that humans have lost in promoting and supporting and empowering the concept of ownership is connection and relationship with the rest of the living world," says Antonia MalchikâMontana-based writer, mother of two, daughter of a Soviet exile, and old-school well-rounded thinkerâin this nineteenth episode of Kinward podcast (the final episode of season one). Antoniaâs lens on our foundational lonelinessâthe hungry ghost which I believe drives so many of our cultureâs maladaptive expressionsâis the rich and seemingly omnipresent lens of private property. In her telling, âwate...
2024-12-301h 47
Kinward PodcastROZZELL MEDINA on Imagining from the Root | Kinward 18 đAs listeners of this podcast likely know, and as Rozzell Medina emphasizes throughout todayâs conversation, âradicalâ literally means âof the root.â In the space of this interview, Rozzell and I consider this wordâconsider rootsâin relation to Home, homecoming, and homelands; punk rock; the flourishes and fruits of Indigenous, African and Afro futurist cinema; the strange loops and chaos-play of Avant Garde art; and our own practices of imagination.Rozzell Medina is a multicultural artist, musician, writer, and educator with ancestral roots in Hopi-Tewa, Mexican-American, and European traditions. He is the director of the Portland EcoFilm Festiv...
2024-12-151h 16
Kinward PodcastJOHN DE VILLIER on Connection More than Ever | Kinward 17 đThere are lots of hot takes and post mortems circulating about why the US vote went decisively to Trump on November 6. This episode of Kinward is not trying to be another one. But, as this season in politics got stranger and stranger, I knew I wanted to have a nuanced conversation, after the election, regardless of the outcome, with someone I trusted to reach toward a bigger picture. So I asked my brother John de Villier, whom I respect enormously for the wide variety of frames heâs cultivated to see the world through, if heâd sit down with...
2024-11-151h 43
Kinward PodcastInvoking What We Might Have Learned with ROZZELL MEDINA [IMMERSION] | Kinward 16[I] đHappy Samhain: season of acknowledging thresholds, reckoning with ghosts, and feeding them. My sense (maybe yours too?) is that the hungry ghosts are out in force this time, this year.In this short Immersion episode with artist and educator Rozzell Medina, we time travel with back to early 2020, a time when, as you might recall, many of our habits and expectations were cracking apart. Maybe you remember that year with shocking clarity, or maybe it feels like a dream. Either way, the story Rozzell tells acknowledges the many ruptures of that time: speaks their names, delves their...
2024-11-0123 min
Kinward Podcastđ Enough is the Point đ with DANAE YURGEL of Avella Orchard | Kinward 15 đIâve known Danae Yurgel for several years. Plants she gifted us are abundant and thriving in our little food forest. I consider her a dear teacher in the arts of permaculture, orcharding, and a life well lived in alignment with deep values. Danae is a Tai Chi instructor, a student of rewilding, and the current steward of Avella Orchard, a 2-acre heirloom fruit and nut orchard in La Grande, Oregon. The orchardâfirst planted in the 1930s by nurseryman Mr. Ryan and his wife, Mrs. Ryan, a teacherâis home to 250 fruit and nut trees, including many r...
2024-10-1758 min
Kinward PodcastANDY HUBER on Growing Wiser..."We Hope You Will" | Kinward 14 đGROWISER is an acronym. It stands for Grande Ronde Overlook Wildflower Institute Serving Ecological Restoration. GRO WISER is also an invitation.Andy Huber established the GROWISER native plant preserve in Summerville, Oregon in 1992. The preserve began as 160 acres of prairie and forest âwith a 360-degree view.â Today, its lovingly tended 275 acres are home to 209 species of native plants, including 10 species of orchids; a broad and boisterous complement of native fauna, including Great Grey Owls and Sasquatch; and one of the largest collections of crystals in the Pacific Northwest, including several that weigh more than 1,000 pounds....
2024-10-021h 18
Kinward PodcastCHISAO HATA on Feeling Change | Kinward 13 đIn this episode of Kinward Podcast, I try to breathe and move, as well as speak, with Chisao Hataâa dancer; an artist; a community weaver and âmemory activistâ based in Portland, Oregon; and the daughter of two Japanese Americans who met and married at a WWII incarceration site in Poston, Arizona.Throughout this conversation and through her work and life, Chisao affirms the power of the embodied arts in our effort to become an America that is less blinkered, less black and white, more spacious, just, and empathetic.Chisao is a performing artist, community organi...
2024-09-171h 13
Kinward PodcastJOE WILKINS on New Stories for Hungry Ghosts | Kinward 12 đOne guiding theme of Kinward podcast is an inquiry into what feels possible, or not, for our moment and futures, based on the kinds of stories we tell. And this is one reason I wanted to speak to Joe Wilkins.Joe grew up âfather-hauntedâ in the âBig Dryâ of Eastern Montana. Heâs a father himself, a writer, a gardener, and a very adept unpacker of two interlinked sets of stories: mythologies of the American West, and stories about men and masculinity. His memoir The Mountain and the Fathers, two novels, and four books of poems invite inhabitati...
2024-08-191h 10
Kinward PodcastRIVER MA [Fiction] | Kinward 11[F] đŸAugust First is LĂșnasa, the Gaelic festival day that marks the beginning of the harvest season. In the spirit of harvest, I thought weâd try something a little different today: a fairy tale, written and read by me, CdV. This story is fiction, and it's also a true story, in its way. It splashes through many of the themes weâve been exploring on this podcast: water and what water wants, the apocalypse, communication beyond the human, embeddedness in place, and embodied transformationâwith a witch and some magical froglets, to boot. Writing and conv...
2024-08-0122 min
Kinward PodcastAXCELLE CAMPANA on Practicing Just Green Futures Now | Kinward 10 đ'All relationships are ecological relationships' has been a mantra of mine for the last several years. In this tenth (heyo double digits!) episode of Kinward podcast, I speak with my longtime friend and role model Axcelle Campana about the many ways our struggles are intertwined and our thriving mutual.Axcelle is an Environmental Justice Practitioner with Knot Studios, an urban design firm in Portland Oregon whose projects integrate equity, social-ecological wellbeing, and environmental stewardship. Axcelle is also currently finishing up his masterâs degree in Geography at Portland State University, with a thesis exploring the dynamics that ha...
2024-07-211h 19
Kinward PodcastANGELA SONDENAA on the Worldâs Work | Kinward 09 đAngela Sondenaa, Ph.D.âSiletz Tribal Member, ecologist and âstudent of ecology,â and longtime land steward with the Nez Perce Tribeâis a passionate advocate for the paradigm shift in resource / âlife sourceâ management that Indigenous voices can bring to the field of land management in this time of climate crisis.Tribes have been powerful shapers and stewards of land on their own terms for thousands of years. They've also been leaders in contemporary conservation, working tirelessly on behalf of species and places ranging from California Condors to salmon and rivers to oak savannasâand Angela herself has brought a...
2024-07-051h 12
Kinward PodcastJASON GRAHAM (M0sley W0tta) on the Shaking Awake of What is Possible | Kinward 08 đHappy Strawberry Moon, happy week of Juneteenth, happy solstice, friends. It was snowing a few weeks ago when I recorded this conversation with Jason Graham (@mosleywotta): painter, musician, poet, storyteller; multidisciplinary Creative Laureate of Bend, Oregon; traverser through "the ecology of conversation"; life-listener; partner and father of three; and extraordinary creative spirit.Jason has spent much of his career uplifting the voices, stories and perspectives of other Black creatives in Oregonâa state with a still-reverberating legacy of trying to make Blackness impossible. But âBlackness is equivalent to limitlessness,â Jason says, and I feel this in the Blackn...
2024-06-211h 17
Kinward PodcastKIRSTEN & JAKOB SHOCKEY on Empowerment in Play | Kinward 07 đKirsten Shockey, co-founder of the Fermentation School and writer at Fermenting Change, reminds us in this episode of Kinward, âhumans play to learn.â Jakob, Kirstenâs son and founder of Project Beaver, adds later, âIâm very interested in avoiding getting pigeonholed as an expert in anything, andâ (to his mom) âI think you are tooâbecause weâre not. Weâre just playing in these spaces.â Mother and son both note early in this episode that the techniques theyâve built their careers aroundâtechniques for fermentation and the stewardship of waterwaysâare ancient. So, their work is not about inventing a...
2024-06-061h 19
Kinward PodcastAround the Farmstead Table with KIRSTEN & JAKOB SHOCKEY, Mother and Son [Immersion] | Kinward 07[I] đThis delicious Immersion episode with Jakob Shockey, founder of Project Beaver, and his mom Kirsten, co-founder of The Fermentation School, is a beautiful taste of the rooting and belonging that one family has woven to support and nourish their good work in the world.Kirsten and Jakob share a morning wakeup blessing, a simple practice for connecting and grounding with each other at the end of the day, and a really yummy sounding recipe for fermented beets.Youâll hear a lot more about their multifaceted and multi-scale work of collaborating with life in our fu...
2024-05-2319 min
Kinward PodcastRENEE "SHE-RA" PATRICK on The Long Hike Home | Kinward 06 đRenee Patrick is a triple-crown through-hiker with over 20 years of experience planning, hiking, and improving long-distance trails. She is an environmentalist and passionate outdoor enthusiast who believes that long-distance hiking can deepen our relationship with the landscapes and environmental issues that desperately need more advocates.Intentional Hiking, one of Reneeâs current projects, affirms the intimacy that hikers develop over hours, days, weeks, or months on foot in a place, and channels that intimacy toward advocacy and care. Itâs an awesome project, and if you spend time hiking, you should definitely check it out. You can also f...
2024-05-071h 11
Kinward PodcastLAUREN MACDONALD on Trusting the Labyrinth | Kinward 05 âïžHappy Beltane, dear ones. In my neck of the woods, blackbird songs are giving way to frog songs, the garden is popping, and my druid baby just turned two.For many reasonsâdeep and fresh, ancient and young, celebratory and fieryâBeltane feels like the right day to release this loving, vulnerable, intimate episode with Lauren Macdonald of Ripple Medicine: my dear friend, beloved, and teacher; herbalist, doula and nurse; home-tender and student of spirals.We lean into the pleasures of the season; explore the magical arts of sensitivity, boundaries, and matchmaking; and spiral into and...
2024-05-011h 18
Kinward PodcastWaving and Rooting with LAUREN MACDONALD, herbalist and doula [Practicum] | Kinward 05[P] đLauren Macdonaldâherbalist and doula, home-tender, poet, labyrinth-walker, singer, nurse, and caretaker of a âdynamic and evolving medicine practice,â Ripple Medicineâguides us generously into a water-body meditation in this short full moon Practicum đOur full episode with Laurenâin which we invite alliances with the more-than-human world, explore sensitivity as a superpower, and honor the life magics that work through usâis coming soon, and I hope youâll love it.In the meantime, on this Spring full moon đ, take a good long look at an image of Joe-Pye Weed, pour yourself a cup of tea, and settle i...
2024-04-2322 min
Kinward PodcastKEVIN SWIFT on the Self We Have to Save | Kinward 04Kevin Swift practices low tech process based restoration, which is to say, he uses simple tools, a collaborative ethic, and a lot of humility to coax damaged and simplified waterways into fuller expressions of their aliveness. This is potent, rewarding work that is needed everywhere.The questions that led me to reach out to Kevin are perennial questions of this podcast: how do we act practically and expressively to embody a more well world? What struggles and sufferings of the world are mirrored in the ways we struggle and suffer? How does an enlivened and enlivening world...
2024-04-191h 16
Kinward PodcastSmelling Success with KEVIN SWIFT, Two-Legged Beaver [Immersion] | Kinward 04[I] đI encountered Kevin Swiftâa restoration practitioner, founder of Swiftwater Design, who describes himself as a âtwo-legged beaverââat a beaver conference in western Oregon last fall, when I was still working my conservation job. Among many excellent presentations by many humans lauding the lifeways of this continentâs most extraordinary rodent engineer, Kevinâs talk stood out for its sensory embodiment, pure grief at the specters of traumatized waterways, and pure joy in the work of coaxing these hurt systems back into fuller expression of their liveliness and abundance. Â This short new moon đ Immersion episodeâa sensual treat in i...
2024-04-0818 min
Kinward PodcastBOBBY FOSSEK, BROSNAN SPENCER, & MEADOW SPENCER on Remembering Together How to Be a Human Here | Kinward 03 đJust before Equinox, my family and I spent an evening with Bobby Fossek, Brosnan Spencer, and their daughter Meadow. These neighbors-across-the-mountains are the space-holders and weavers of NaknuwiĆama TiicÌaÌmna (Caretakers of the Land), an Indigenous-led organization based in eastern Oregon, serving land and community: the Native people and species of the Big River (the Columbia), and the relationships that have always sustained mutual thriving here.These good humans, who do so much good work, weave many threads and affirm many relationships in this episode. They speak about weaving; about tending land and community and ten...
2024-03-251h 27
Kinward PodcastCRAIG CHILDS on Opening Doors for Wildness (& Also Coming Home) | Kinward 02 đIâm so excited to share this conversation with Craig Childsâadventure journalist, desert devotee, and âtransformation junkieââon recommitting to earthâs rhythms; rewilding (and domesticating) ourselves in ways that are responsive and responsible; and opening all the doors. We know that in times of chaos and complexity, new orders emerge.Craig drops us into this conversation by immersing us in a recent research adventure for his forthcoming (soon!) book on dark nights: moving from the brightest of nights into the darkest, with a friend, at the speed of a fat tire bike.As you listen t...
2024-03-101h 24
Kinward PodcastGENEVIEVE FLANAGAN on Resilient Roots for No-Analog Times | Kinward 01Genevieve Flanagan owns and operates the one-woman show the Urban Acre Homestead: an urban farm in Northeast Portland, focused on serving fresh, beautiful, and nourishing food to neighbors. The Urban Acre is a diversified small farm with vegetables (especially greens), fruit and berries, perennial edibles, medicinal and culinary herbs, and a fledgeling tea plantation. If you listened to our Practicum episode with Genevieve, you already know about her tea blossom tea and her gorgeous buckhorn plantain. This full conversation with Genevieve unpacks her ongoing dance-boss-intimacy with the weather, her long history of responding thoughtfully to economic and e...
2024-03-041h 14
Kinward PodcastSteeping Spring with GENEVIEVE FLANAGAN, Urban Farmer [Practicum] | Kinward 01[P] đGenevieve Flanagan is a resilience thinker, an urban farmer (owner-operator of the one-woman show the Urban Acre Homestead in Portland, Oregon), and is "not a practicing wiccan" â just an opportunistic one, we might say, since the pagan high holidays happen to map right onto the farming calendar.This short "practicum" episode, which we recorded in person at the farm on Imbolc weekend, on a sunny day right on the heels of an unseasonable ice storm, is 1) a great tease for our deep dive with Gen; and 2) brimming with invitations to enchant your way into spring. Brew yourself a...
2024-02-2520 min