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I sit down with artist, photographer, and author Josie Iselin, and what begins as a conversation about kelp opens into an exploration of the intricate world in the waters just off our coast.

Josie traces her own path into that world—from artist to something closer to a naturalist of the shoreline—guided by curiosity, attention, and a willingness to look closely at what most of us walk past. Kelp, in her telling, is not just seaweed but a kind of language: a way of reading the ocean’s health, its rhythms, and its disturbances.

We talk about the fragile balance of the kelp forests—about urchin barrens and restoration efforts, including diver-led removal and the promise (and limits) of lab-grown kelp. We touch on kelp’s often overstated role as a carbon sink, I learned the meaning of the “wrack line” as a living archive of the sea, and the ongoing tensions around sea otter reintroduction.

Threaded through it all is Josie’s project Above Below: The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp, created with illustrator Ellen Litwiller—first as a digital exploration, now as a beautifully realized book available where books are sold and at the Henry Miller Library.

It’s a conversation about paying attention and what the edge of the ocean might still teach us if we take the time to walk down to the shoreline and slow down long enough to see it.

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Alison van Diggelen – Journalist, interviewer, and author of The Love Project: A Journey of Intimate Conversations.

Photo is of Alison and her Mom.
Alison's website.
Buy "The Love Project" at your local bookstore.
May we suggest the Henry Miller Library.

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Topics in This Episode

• The origins of The Love Project
• Love across generations
• The power of listening
• Storytelling as connection
• Love as a verb (and noun)

A Quote from the Episode

Final Thought

We often speak about love as if it were a feeling that descends upon us like weather, it does, but there's more...

Perhaps love encompasses much more—
a choice, repeated in small acts, day after day.

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Shamergence

The skeptic asks, “Is it real?”
The shaman asks, “Did it help?”

COME MEET ROB SOMERS ON SATURDAY, MARCH 21

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Carlos Castaneda

Joseph Campbell

The Samples

Ozymandias

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Shaman, Skeptic, and the Voice in the Belly

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