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Jacqueline Comito
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Curious Planet
Still in the Woods
We find inspiration and peace on a walk where the wild things are.
2025-01-23
15 min
Curious Planet
Sparkles of Joy
We remember how fireflies have sparked joy, enchantment, and wonder in our lives, and contemplate a world where their light is forever extinguished. Mentioned in today’s episode:Sara Lewis, Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies, Princeton University Press, 2016.
2025-01-09
13 min
Curious Planet
A Dog, a Woman, an Owl, and a Star
We consider our beginnings, and take up a second gratitude challenge, this time with the help of a backyard Barred Owl.
2024-12-19
09 min
Curious Planet
Music Can Change the World
Whether you learned the alphabet to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, or memorized the contents of the periodic table with the help of Tom Lehrer and The Elements, you’ll recognize the connection between music and memory. We tune into the power of music, and hear how it is helping young Iowans learn key concepts of water science. Mentioned in today’s episode:Water Rocks!: The Musical. Iowa State University, 2022. https://www.waterrocks.org/musicalDaniel Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.David McCall, Scho...
2024-12-05
14 min
Curious Planet
Remember Who We Were Before We Spoke English
Meskwaki elders inspire us to recall the stories of our past that connect us to the land we live on and the land of our ancestors.Mentioned in today’s episode:Seed-saving. Here’s another Italian family whose seeds saved for five generations became an important part of an international seed vault: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/03/03/meet-south-side-family-who-saved-its-beloved-pepper-seed-5-generations/98599460/
2024-11-21
20 min
Curious Planet
Honest Bees
We learn the buzz on wise group decision-making by observing the habits of those whose lives depend on it—honeybees.Mentioned in today’s episode:Thomas Seeley, Honeybee Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2010.Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: An American Musical, 2015.Water Rocks! Teacher Summit, https://www.waterrocks.org/summit
2024-11-07
27 min
Curious Planet
What Our Bodies Know, Our Minds Don’t Always Remember
The stories we tell preserve our collective human memory—but we’re also part of a profound connection steadfastly held by the natural world. Host Jacqueline Comito ponders this wondrous web, as well as her relationship with some of its tinier residents, as we open Season 2 of the podcast.Mentioned in today’s episode:Alice Walker, The Color Purple, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.Elie Wiesel, “Hope, despair and memory,” 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, December 11, 1986. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/lecture/Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (L. A. Coser, Ed.), University of Chicago Press, 1992.Richard Powers, The Overst...
2024-10-24
09 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Blessing
Joyful Hearts, Postcards of HomeFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 02
2024-03-19
02 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Wade in the Water
Smiling Stone Soup, GreenFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 07
2024-03-19
04 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Thank You for Your Song
Smiling Stone Soup, GreenFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 03
2024-03-19
04 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Io Sono Chi Sono
Joyful Hearts, Seasons of PrayerFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 03
2024-03-19
03 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Gioia
Joyful Hearts, Seasons of PrayerFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 03
2024-03-19
04 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Barn Quilts
Joyful Hearts, Back to Our RootsFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 02
2024-03-19
02 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Straight and Leveed
Joyful Hearts, Back to Our RootsFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 01
2024-03-19
03 min
Curious Planet
Music Extra: Native Winds
Joyful Hearts, Postcards of HomeFeatured in Season 01 | Episode 01
2024-03-19
02 min
Curious Planet
Curiosity, Not Conviction
Host Jacqueline Comito opens our conversation about engaging wonderment to heal and protect the environment— with a little help from some apes.Mentioned in today’s episode:Jane Goodall, October 1960, from Jane (documentary film), National Geographic, 2017. https://films.nationalgeographic.com/jane-the-moviePierre Boulle, La Planète des Singes, published in the United States as Planet of the Apes, 1963.Planet of the Apes (film), Twentieth Century Fox, 1968.“Go Ape!” television spot, 1974. http://space1970.blogspot.com/2012/07/planet-of-apes-go-ape-marathon.htmlGus Speth, It’s Already Tomorrow: Poems by Gus Speth, Shires Press, 2020.Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing, 1999.
2024-03-19
09 min
Curious Planet
Hope is Remembering the Future
How can we have hope in a world that sometimes feels like a hot mess? Watching the seasons change in the backyard with a new puppy, we consider the real question: “How can we not?”Mentioned in today’s episode: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Social Good Summit 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiZduBO2bQM Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, Thorndike Press, 2021. George Steiner, “Remembering the Future,” Remembrance Sunday 1989 address, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. First published in Cambridge Review. Reprinted in Theology, November 1990, Volume 93, Issue 756, pp. 437-444.Iowa Learning Farms, h...
2024-03-19
12 min
Curious Planet
Thank You for Your Song
We begin on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, then travel to places of lived experience and spaces of sensed experience.Mentioned in today’s episode: Joyful Hearts, Seasons of PrayerJ. E. Malpas, Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography, Cambridge University Press, 1999, page 176.Ilia Delio, Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis, St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2011.Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods, Algonquin Books, 2008.Wallace “J.” Nichols, Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected and Better at What You Do, Little...
2024-03-19
10 min
Curious Planet
Imagine That
The Virgin Mary Tree of Polk City, Iowa, inspires us to imagine and improvise as we engage with the world around us. Mentioned in today’s episode:The Virgin Mary Tree of Polk City on the Roadside America website, https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/45877Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, Belknap Press, 1995.Stephen T. Asma, The Evolution of Imagination, University of Chicago Press, 2017.Luca Tateo, A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding, Springer, 2020.Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Macmillan and Co...
2024-03-19
15 min
Curious Planet
Curious Coyote
We find wild curiosity on a series of walks with dog Charlie through a local urban trail.Mentioned in today’s episode:Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Paulist Press, 1981.
2024-03-19
17 min
Curious Planet
Gifts of Gratitude
We flunk a gratitude challenge, and decide to try again in collaboration with a backyard barred owl. Mentioned in today’s episode:Robert A. Emmons, Gratitude Works! A 21-Day Program for Creating Emotional Prosperity, Jossey-Bass, 2013.Angeles Arrien, Living in Gratitude: A Journey That Will Change Your Life, Sounds True, 2011.Louise Hay, Gratitude: A Way of Life, Hay House Inc., 1996.Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, “Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 377-389.Monica Bartlett and David DeSteno, “Gratitude...
2024-03-19
11 min
Curious Planet
Wade in the Water
We seek conversation and find connection on a rainy slope of Ireland’s Croagh Patrick. Mentioned in today’s episode:Wallace “J.” Nichols, Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected and Better at What You Do, Little, Brown, 2014.
2024-03-19
14 min
Curious Planet
Curious Planet Trailer
Curious Planet is a podcast exploring wonderment to heal and protect the earth. Subscribe to Curious Planet on your favorite streaming platform. Season One drops on March 19, 2024!
2024-03-11
00 min
Rhymes With Decorah
RWD21 Ross Evelsizer - NE IA RCD
RWD #21 Ross Evelsizer – NE Iowa RCD Ross Evelsizer is the Natural Resource Projects Director for NE Iowa RC&D (Resource Conservation & Development) - a Decorah native, avid outdoorsman, husband, Dad, and even a part time chef! But the heart of Ross’s work is in the form of projects that focus on the health of our region’s watersheds, through many channels obvious, and less obvious. Ross’s work has most recently been recognized through a 2022 “New Voices in Water Quality Award” from ISU Extension and Outreach’s Conservation Learning Group. The award celebrates the...
2022-10-04
31 min