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Vegan Nation features an interview with Vegan authors, Tami Hay in Alberta, Canada, and Judy Carman in Kansas, USA. Discussion includes grief, Holistic healing, contemporary events, many upcoming conferences, retreats, and additional resources. Music in this episode: “How Beautiful We Are” by Sally Zito in Los Angeles; “Calvesong” by Will Tuttle in Northern California; and “Animals are our Friends, We Don’t Want to Hurt our Friends” by That Vegan Teacher Miss Kadie in Montreal. Tune in Tuesday April 16, 2024 wcuw.org/listen 4 PM EDT – WCUW 91.3 FM – Vegan Nation (On-Air at 4pm EDT; 3pm CDT; 2pm MDT). Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com

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Judy McCoy Carman, M.A., earth, peace, and animal activist, is the author of Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul and the new book, Homo Ahimsa: Who we Really are and how we’re going to save the world. She is also co-author of The Missing Peace: The Hidden Power of our Kinship with Animals.  In addition to animal rescue work, some current projects include the Animals’ Peace Prayer Flag project; Vegan Spirituality interviews and retreats; and co-founding the Circle of Compassion, the Interfaith Vegan Coalition and Prayer Circle for Animals Facebook. She appears in the film, “A Prayer for Compassion,” and received the Henry Spira Grassroots Animal Activist Award in 2014. Her website is  www.peacetoallbeings.com . 

Tami S. Hay, M.A., RMT, Founder of Infinity 8 Food and Nutrition; Masters in Integrative Nutrition specializing in Detoxification, Hydration and Gut Health; and author of the book, EarthGut: The Story of Peace Love and Microbes – The journey into Healing MindBody Disorders, Digestive Dis-ease and our Reconnection to Mother Earth. Tami recovered from being very ill with crohns and colitis, teaches peace as studied by the Essenes, has experience in Social Work, and has been a massage therapist for two decades. Tami is a Mother Bear dedicated to keep our children and grandchildren’s mind-body well. She shares her log country home with many friends, family, Grandchildren, retreat participants, plants and sprouts, on a little piece of the prairie near Edmonton, Alberta. Her heart’s longing is for ALL sentient beings to be happy, healthy and FREE. Her website is https://tamihay.com/ .

Vegan Grandmothers Speak – A poem by Tami Hay, founder of Million Vegan Grandmothers (written April 10, 2024)

Photo and poem on grief by Tami Hay – THE SOUNDING

THE SOUNDING

There is something sounding in my heart, 
A calling we can seek to hear
From the bottom of my grief, 
Sunk right down to the hidden reef 
Where, cracked wide open, 
I feel it ALL.

Until I hit this bottom,
I lightly rode the waves,
I didn’t weep
Or feel the urgent stir, so deep,
To free all sentient souls
in thrall

I couldn’t see the shells and bones
Littering the sand below, 
Those castoffs hidden
In my underwater midden, 
“Less worthy are some,” I thought, to try and
cover sin.

Now something draws my eye, 
Not from on deck, 
But from sand-grazed knees, 
And through the murk of blood-soaked seas,
A vent or fissure, through which God’s light
Seeps slowly in…

© Tami Hay 2023

VEGAN NATION PHOTOS & more PHOTOS. Poster photos: Judy with bovine by Ann Wilson. Tami on dock. Art by Tami Hay.