Joanna Macy A Wild Love for the World
A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has lived adventurously by any definition. She worked with the CIA in Cold War Europe and the Peace Corps in post-colonial India and was an early environmental activist. She brings a poetic and spiritual sensibility to her work that\u2019s reflected in her translations of the early-20th-century poet Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal.\nJoanna Macy is an activist, author, and a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. Her 13 books include translations of Rilke\u2019s \u201cBook of Hours: Love Poems to God,\u201d \u201cA Year with Rilke,\u201d and \u201cIn Praise of Mortality.\u201d She is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, a framework and workshop for personal and social change. Her new translation of Rilke\u2019s \u201cLetters to a Young Poet,\u201d together with Anita Barrows, is upcoming in 2020.\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.