0:08 – Fund Drive Premium: This Immeasurable Place
Blake Spalding (@blakerspalding) is a chef and co-owner of Hell’s Backbone Grill in Bolder, a Buddhist principled, farm-to-table restaurant in the heart of Mormon country in Utah. She and her partner, a co-owner Jennifer Castle are part of a lawsuit against the Trump Administration as part of their fight to preserve the Grand Escalante National Monument near their farm and restaurant in Utah. They recently published their stories in a book of food writing, recipes and essays called This Immeasurable Place. Yours for a pledge of $200 to KPFA.
1:08 – Fund Drive Premium: Feeding A Thousand Souls
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kōlam, a ritual design made of rice flour, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Propelled by a lifelong interest and deeply informed research, Nagarajan provides a poetic and surprising entry into the layered complexities of Hindu culture. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions––beauty, history, gender, literature, religion, anthropology, mathematics, and ecology.
Today we air excerpts of a special KPFA event featuring: Vandana Shiva (@drvandanashiva) is an scholar, activist, author of more than twenty books, and one of the luminaries of the alter-globalization movement, and Vijaya Nagarajan is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. Author of Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India – An Exploration of the Kolam.
They appeared in Berkeley on Monday Feb 11, 2019 at the First Congregational Church as part of a KPFA Benefit.
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