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Guests Jan Nisbet (Founder, Institute on Disability; Associate Professor of Education and Founding Director of the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire) and Nancy Weiss (Director of Disability Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, University of Delaware; Director, National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at University of Delaware) discuss electroshock therapy and their book Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities.

Sarah Amador-Guzman takes the helm as host of Community Matters. Today, she is with Sherry Hooper, Executive Director of The Food Depot, discussing the biggest challenges of food insecurity across northern New Mexico, how organizations are addressing them, and The Food Depot’s recent win of a 2022 Piñon Award, which recognizes excellence in northern New Mexico’s nonprofit sector.

In honor of April's environment focus, Santa Fe Community Foundation Hub Coordinator, Yolanda Cruz, talks to Paula Garcia, Executive Director of the New Mexico Acequia Association, about her organization's work in protecting our water and acequias, growing healthy food for our families and communities, and honoring our local heritage.

A return visit by wild earth poet, Timothy McLaughlin, whose life and work have taken him into tracts of wilderness unknown to many of us. Listen as Timothy recites pieces from his observations and heightened perception deep in forests and inspires exploration of the close relationship between our human selves and the natural world. On Saturday, February 4th Timothy, his wife singer Madi Sato, and cellist Nelson Denman offer a spoken word concert, Untracked: A Journey into Wildness at Unity Santa Fe. Doors open at 5:30, details at unitysantafe.org Connect with Timothy at timothypmclaughlin.comAlso today, exciting news of an essay writing contest for New Mexico students in 6th through 12th grade. Contest details at leopoldwritingprogram.org

A true delight to welcome Santa Fe’s Miriam Sagan, creative writing teacher and gifted, award-winning author of over 30 books of poetry, memoir and fiction. Miriam joins me today to read from her new collection Start Again. A fascinating and intimate conversation revealing that poetry doesn’t necessarily have to stem from anger or disillusionment, but that careful observation and perception offer both the writer and the reader a doorway to profound understanding, hope and joy.Miriam has a zoom presentation and reading on Tuesday February 1st sponsored by Santa Fe Community College. Register at http://www.sfcc.edu/events/Start Again is published by Red Mountain Press and available locally and from online vendors.

A sensitive, heart-warming yet heartbreaking interview with Lesley Lowe author of Autumn Gold: A Rendezvous with Cancer, Knowing Death is Not Final. When her beautiful and brilliant daughter Vashti was diagnosed with the rare blood cancer Multiple Myeloma at age 31 Lesley was by her side every moment, including through two bone marrow transplants. Revealing with pain-filled accuracy Vashti’s grueling journey this interview and book is also a journey of love between mother and daughter who share a grounded spiritual awareness of life after death and also a delicious and poignant love story between Vashti and her once lost first love who comes back into her life at the perfect moment. www.33greyhound.com

Earlier in her career Adrienne Youdim, M.D. was the medical director of the Center for Weight Loss at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She observed that clients’ desire to lose weight very often masked a deeper desire for something more meaningful in their lives. For the past 15 years her private practice has revealed that many of us are hungry for more, inspiring her book Hungry for More: Stories and Science to Inspire Weight Loss from The Inside Out. In this interview Dr. Adrienne asks you what you’re really hungry for. Your own answer may surprise you, mine did. www.dradrienneyoudim.com

Generating beauty out of pain is an incisive perception of Santa Fe’s gifted and well-loved, award-winning poet Donald Levering.Reading from his sixteenth collection Breaking Down Familiar, Donald offers KSFR listeners a first, intimate glimpse into his own family with insights that will inspire both new and seasoned writers to glance deeper into their most formative relationships. To understand what and who made them who they are. And who they are not. Published by Main Street Rag Publishing.

One of Santa Fe’s most beloved authors, Elaine Pinkerton, joins me today to celebrate KSFR during our Spring Fundraiser. She’s also celebrating this week’s release of her newest book Hand of Ganesh, inspired by her travels in Mother India set amidst the Kumbha Mela gathering. She also reminds us that her beautiful book From Calcutta with Love, her own parents' wartime love letters, is being re-released soon. Elaine tells delightful stories of how KSFR’s open, thoughtful contributors and opera have informed and blessed her daily life for years. Join her in donating any time by clicking the “donate” button on ksfr.org and discover all her books and blog at elainepinkerton.wordpress.com and at our superb local bookstores. Plus, beginning in May, meet Elaine in person at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market on most Tuesdays.