Hawthorne Valley is pleased to share the latest episode of its Roots to Renewal podcast featuring Micah Blumenthal, a worker trustee at the Good Work Institute and a workshop leader of the Kingston-based TMI project. Micah also serves on the board of Radio Kingston and co-hosts The Breathing Room and hosts Hip Hop 101 on Radio Kingston.
In this episode, Micah and our host, Hawthorne Valley Executive Director, Martin Ping reflect on the phenomenon of time, the importance of being rooted in place, the nature of work, our complicated relationship with money, and how all of these things are interconnected.
“We have built into our culture a lot of language actually about how much we hate work...It's always something that we want to vacate from,” Micah says in the interview. “There's all these things in our culture [where] we've created a world where work is about exploitation, and we largely hate it. And that's odd to me because this is of our making….Work has to exist, and work could be beautiful, [and] work could be good.”
To learn more about Good Work Institute's mission, to build and amplify the collective power of people to reject systems of oppression and extraction, and create regenerative, just, and life-affirming communities, visit their website. Learn more about TMI project's mission to change the world one story at a time by crafting and amplifying true stories that set us free by visiting TMIproject.org. Visit radiokingston.org to hear past episodes of Hip Hop 101 and The Breathing Room, or tune in Fridays at 9pm and Saturdays at 11am to listen live.
About Micah Blumenthal:
Micah (he/him) is of mixed race (black and white) and mixed religion, and grew up in two different socio-economic homes. He is a cisgendered, working/middle class parent of two living on Munsee/Lenape land in the Mahicantuck Valley, commonly referred today as Kingston, NY, working to prove possibility and to liberate the imagination in order to see a Just Transition. Micah is a worker-trustee (a term used to illustrate the practice of shared leadership) at Good Work Institute. The Good Work Institute exists to build and amplify the collective power of people to reject systems of oppression and extraction and create regenerative, just, and life-affirming communities. He serves on the board of Radio Kingston, is co-host of The Breathing Room – a radio segment discussing and leading mindfulness, as well as host of Hip Hop 101 on Radio Kingston. Micah is also a workshop leader of TMI Project.
To hear more, listen to the full episode of Roots to Renewal wherever you get your podcasts, or on our website here.
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