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August 16, 2019

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One Breath Around the World

Guillaume Nery can hold his breath underwater for more than seven minutes, dive more than 126 meters without air and has run on ocean floors around the world. He is a professional freediver, meaning he dives without breathing apparatus. The sport of freediving is dangerous, but Guillaume Nery and Julie Gautier’s film makes it seem peaceful and serene. The film shows non divers a new way of interacting with water – walking, running, jumping, flying. The idea for this film came about when Nery was thinking about those who trek continents by foot. He wanted to do something similar but take viewers on an underwater journey across the globe. His wife, Julie Gautier, who was involved in filming, was also on breath hold. { read more }

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August 15, 2019

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Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues

“It was a fortuitous flip to the essay on pronghorns that persuaded me to pick up Craig Childs’ The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild. In each intimately wrought tale on antelopes, hawks, and red-spotted toads, I found a writer and translator more versed in the tongues of the non-human world than I will ever be. Childs honors the weight and magnitude of his encounters with creatures large and small, preserving the distance and mystery that comes with each meeting. He strives to convey in words what cannot be expressed in words, and in each essay I see one who does what I wish to do myself: To connect with respect, to speak for the voiceless, to bear witness to life and death in their eternal splendor.” { read more }

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Listen for the tongues of the non-human world this week.

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August 14, 2019

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Wild Mumbai

“Every night for the past eleven years, Rajesh Sanap and Zeeshan Mirza have spent the post-dinner hours combing the woods behind their homes. Like restive sprites, the young men skirt ponds, bash through spiky hedgerows, upturn rocks, shake up leaf litter, and thread through dirt trails hairy with undergrowth. In the course of their nocturnal walkabouts, they’ve found about a dozen arachnids, including two that are entirely new to science: a rangy, amber-hued scorpion and a compact, ashen tarantula with lean limbs covered in white fur. A few years ago, they totted up all the living creatures they’d encountered, which they began observing as inquisitive teens and continue to record as full-time conservation biologists: 76 species of birds, 86 moths and butterflies, 13 amphibians, 46 reptiles, and 16 mammals. Not a bad haul for some backwoods. It’s positively profligate when you consider just where these backwoods are located: Aarey Milk Colony, as it’s called, is in the heart of Mumbai, the most populous city in India. It’s a five-square-mile thicket of deciduous forest interspersed with scrubland, cattle sheds, and Bollywood film studios.” { read more }

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This week pay try paying extra attention to all the different life forms that surround you.

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August 13, 2019

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A Man Without Words: The Story of a Contemporary Miracle

“When I met this man he was twenty-seven years old. Because he didn’t know there was sound, because he didn’t know he was deaf, he didn’t know there was hearing and deafness. He studied lips and mouths. He knew something was happening. He’s a very smart man. He’d be staring at lips. He’d stare at your mouth and he’d stare at this person’s lips and he thought he was stupid. He thought he was stupid because he thought we had figured this mouth-movement stuff out visually…One of the things that attracted me to him more than anything else–the intelligence in his eyes caught my eye–but more than that, he hadn’t given up. I can’t imagine going twenty-seven years thinking I was stupid and watching mouths. The most frustrating thing I can imagine. He didn’t know what language was. He didn’t know what sound was, but he knew something was happening and he wanted to know what that something was.” Susan Schaller shares the remarkable story of what happened next in this interview. { read more }

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More from Susan Schaller in this interview– Communicating Visual Poetry. { more }

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August 12, 2019

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Bronnie Ware: Living Without Regrets

“Bronnie Ware is an author and speaker whose bestselling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, is based on her time as a palliative care worker. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Bronnie outlines these five major life regrets with Tami Simon and discusses the experiences in end-of-life care that inspired them. Bronnie explains how most regrets arise from a lack of courage and why people are willing to share so openly during their last days. Tami and Bronnie speak on the healing power of sharing our most vulnerable selves, even if it’s in a letter that we never send. Finally, they talk about maintaining trust in the flow of life and why happiness is ultimately a choice.” { read more }

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Read Ware’s article on ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying’ here. { more }

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August 11, 2019

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How Cultural Differences Shape Gratitude

“Most of what we know about it [gratitude] comes from studying Americans–and, specifically, the mainly white American college students from the campuses where researchers work. That creates a cultural bias in the science, and that’s why more and more researchers are exploring what gratitude looks and feels like in a range of cultures.” This article shares more. { read more }

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Take the opportunity to ask someone from a different culture about their relationship to gratitude.

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August 10, 2019

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A Green Approach to Gun Control

“Tajinder Singh, 47, a farmer in the North Indian state of Punjab, applied for a gun license. He told the authorities that he needed a revolver for self-defense. While tending to his 20 acres of land, he often had to walk long hours to reach home after nightfall. He wanted to protect himself from wild animals and bands of armed robbers. Once the background checks were completed in June this year, Singh was told he had to fulfill one more condition to get his gun. He had to submit two photos: One showing him planting 10 saplings on his property, and then another with the thriving trees one month later.” { read more }

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For more inspiration here’s a fascinating interview with David Milarch: “The Man Who Planted Trees.” { more }

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