Things discussed in this episode:
Historical patterns of populations returning to old-world ways
The fickleness of modernity
Giving our children timeless skills
Learning to navigate the healthcare industry with slow living in mind
The importance of community
The importance of homesteading skills, even if you don’t live on a homestead
Doing things that challenge us in a world that prizes ease and convenience above all else
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Things discussed in this episode:
Historical patterns of populations returning to old-world ways
The fickleness of modernity
Giving our children timeless skills
Learning to navigate the healthcare industry with slow living in mind
The importance of community
The importance of homesteading skills, even if you don’t live on a homestead
Doing things that challenge us in a world that prizes ease and convenience above all else
Thomas Lynch is the author of five collections of poems and four books of essays, as well as a bo ok of stories, Apparition & Late Fictions.
His work has been the subject of two film documentaries—PBS Frontline's The Undertaking, which won the 2008 Emmy Award for Arts and Culture Documentary, and Learning Gravity, produced for the BBC, featured at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival and awarded the Michigan Prize. He has taught with the Department of Mortuary Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, with the graduate program in writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and with the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
His essays, poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic and Granta, The New York Times and Times of London, The New Yorker, Poetry and The Paris Review and elsewhere. He lives in Milford, Michigan where he has been the funeral director since 1974, and in Moveen, Co. Clare, Ireland where he keeps an ancestral cottage.
Bella Figura, The Tradition of Living Beautifully
Things discussed in this episode:
Historical patterns of populations returning to old-world ways
The fickleness of modernity
Giving our children timeless skills
Learning to navigate the healthcare industry with slow living in mind
The importance of community
The importance of homesteading skills, even if you don’t live on a homestead
Doing things that challenge us in a world that prizes ease and convenience above all else
