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January 21, 2023 32 mins
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,
 
Brainy Thing:
New words that describe the comfort we lack and long for. 
hygge: coziness
Solastalgia:   distress of environmental change
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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. 
 
 
live condor 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.
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