Ep. 144 Solastalgia --seeking comfort--, knitting shawls, gnomes and a snitch; Teaching my bones to knit, removing dams on the Klamath, and an announcement

Brainy:  1o:12   Behind the Redwood Curtain:  20:47

 

What We're Learning from our Knitting:

Catherine is continuing her knitting odyssey with Stephen West's Twists and Turns Shawl,

http://knittedtoybox.blogspot.com/

 

Brainy Thing:

New words that describe the comfort we lack and long for. 

hygge: coziness

Solastalgia:   distress of environmental change

Here are some links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDDjXhcWB1g

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36459133/#&gid=article-figures&pid=fig-1-uid-0

 

Behind the Redwood Curtain

At the end of 2022, the courts approved a plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River which are destructive to fish species and cause toxic blue green algae. 

 

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-11-17/regulators-approve-demolition-of-four-klamath-river-dams?utm_id=76610&sfmc_id=4456079

 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/Largest-dam-removal-project-in-U-S-history-gets-17592091.php?sid=62c3aa67475d9718370d9a07&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_morningfix

live condor feed:

https://www.yuroktribe.org/yurok-condor-live-feed

 

 

Announcement:

We announce that after our next episode (145), we will be discontinuing the podcast in its current form.

 

Welcome to episode 144 of Teaching Your Brain to Knit while we report on Hygge and Solastalgia--comfort and longing for comfort; Catherine updates us on her Twists and Turns adventure and celebrates completing a gnome and a snitch while Margaret reports on teaching her bones to knit and finally talks about the victory on the Klamath River for the fish, the quality of the river, and the environment with four dam removals.