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Nov 3, 2013

"We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body." --Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World

Joanna Macy is best known today as a Buddhist scholar and activist. She also translated the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. Her adventurous life included working for the CIA in Cold War Germany, then, as a young mother, she moved with her husband to post-colonial India, where she cared for Tibetan refugees, joining the young, newly exiled Dalai Lama. Later, she became an environmental activist. Learn more about her in this fascinating in-depth interview.