Season Three
EPISODE NINE
Engaged Contemplation in a Heartbreaking World with Fr. Adam Bucko
“I am deeply inspired by these words from Adam Bucko, a contemplative priest, mentor, and friend to the poor. He is a trustworthy guide to discovering a spiritual life for our century and living in service of compassion and justice.”
— Richard Rohr
BONUS / EPISODE EIGHT / MUSING
Heathen
“We are given rivers so we know our hearts can break, but still keep us breathing.”
— Emily Walter
EPISODE SEVEN
Vitality Out of Emptiness with Fr. David Denny
“The inner desert
arises primarily from grief:
the universal desert of loss
that grinds the soul to dust
and bears within it
the threat of despair
as well as hope
for transformation
and compassion.”
— Fr. David Denny
EPISODE SIX
The River You Touch with Chris Dombrowski
“Like the river, Dombrowski’s story is complicated and enlivened by all it touches, ‘an extension of everything upstream and down’—from the joys, doubts, and terrors of parenthood; to the precarity of making a life in art; to the rivers and mountains that are both his source of sustenance and place of worship; and the fraught layers of histories that map over it all. By the end, I’d fallen hopelessly in love with Dombrowski’s Montana, not just its rivers and mountains, but the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world—from children who speak in beguiling riddles to crusty old hunters whose colloquial panache rivals the naughtiest Shakespeare. Dombrowski brings a near-religious attentiveness to the details of his world, both our wise guide and awe-struck fellow-passenger.”
— Lisa Wells, author of Believers
BONUS / EPISODE FIVE / MUSING
Inarticulate as Watercolors, Brazen as Graffiti
“To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.”
— William Blake
EPISODE FOUR
Nine Poems from Coffin Honey by Todd Davis
“A fine, rare poet.”
– Jim Harrison
EPISODE THREE
A Revelatory Elegy of Unknowing with Todd Davis (author of Coffin Honey)
“Reading Todd Davis’s gorgeous poems, you can’t help but feel that the capacities of human vision, and also our appetite for exactly this way of seeing and naming have been mysteriously, precisely increased.”
– Jane Hirshfield
EPISODE TWO
Contemplative Gleanings from the Hermits of Big Sur with Paula Huston
“Absolutely fascinating, gorgeously written, frequently brilliant. In her story of how an ancient monastic order found a home in California, and how the author found a home with them, Paula Huston offers us an invitation into a world that few see, but all will want to experience.”
– James Martin, SJ
EPISODE ONE
Bill Porter (Red Pine) on Zen and Taoist Masters, Mountain Hermits, & the Life of a Translator
“Bill Porter has been one of the most prolific translators of Chinese texts, while also developing into a travel writer with a cult following.”
—New York Times
TRAILER
Here There Are Woods, Foxes
“The hermit life is cool.”
— Thomas Merton