Jun 17, 2021
Artemis heads afield this week to talk with storyteller and adventurer Mandela van Eeden in Montana. Mandela's upbringing was split between South Africa, where her family harvested from the sea, and Montana - where they gratefully accepted the river's bounty. She went on to become a raft guide in the Grand Canyon and in New Zealand. Mandela talks to us about connecting to place, pursuing your dreams, and how we can care for what sustains us. Plus, a black bear walks in on Marcia and Mandela mid-way through the episode. (No jokes, folks!)
4:00 All the 'boks' in Africa, which is Afrikaans for 'deer' (springbok, bontebok, gemsbok)
5:00 A childhood split between the African bush and Montana, leaving your heart in both
11:00 Three Gorges Dam & the Yangtze River
12:00 Storytelling with sound and music AND raft guiding both hemispheres
16:00 What's the core value that makes us do what we do?
18:00 The Oily River Rendezvous and seeing an oil spill from the river's view
19:00 "If you think you're too little to make a difference, you've obviously not spent the night with a mosquito."
22:00 "Grand Canyon pink" - a rattlesnake endemic to that space
24:00 Getting Primitive program gets kids into bushcrafting
27:00 Fish in one hand, shark in the other
30:00 Fly-fishing as a family affair
32:00 Podcast interrupted by a black bear... yep, bonafide bear strolling through!
37:00 The myriad of ways in which people gather from the sea
38:00 NWF Outdoors podcast, Vanishing Seasons
41:00 If you want to connect with a place... BE there. Fully present. Cease the wandering mind.
42:00 Yoga sutras written by Pantanjali
49:00 Connection to the outdoors through harvest + patience and mindfulness
50:00 The value of a mentor
54:00 Riverboarding the Grand Canyon for 15 days... the dream started with a flip (link to article?)
56:00 Thalweg: the fastest current in the river
59:00 "Go into your dream closet and dust off some of those ones you've filed away."
1:03 Introducing family to game - antelope and bear... and recruiting a nephew into the ranks
1:06 Listen to what your body tells you to eat (plus, spearfishing)