The Rural Pen with Thomas Little - a podcast by Guts N Glory

Today we're sitting down with Thomas Little, ink maker, alchemist, and garden hermit.

At the time of this call, he also worked as a park ranger in North Carolina (garden hermit check). And during said call, which was well over two hours long, he was wandering said park. Hey, who knew middle-of-nowhere-North Carolina had better connectivity than my own house *insert eye roll*.

He also kind of reminds me of a modern day Radagast from The Hobbit, but you know, not  unhinged. From sunrise to sunset, between bush and bracken, Thomas expresses his values in ink blotching and across scroll, telling the tales of the environments that surround him. The inks themselves a token of an ecosystem governed under an infrastructure that only seeks to profit in its ownership of our natural world, and the ways with which he navigates his internal, as well as external, dialogue in finding his footing between community and nature.

Don't ever tell your kids that the likes of alchemists and witches don't exist because, if you look a little closer, they might just be your neighbor, your local baker, or in this case, a park ranger.

This is Ep 27 The Rural Pen with Thomas Little.

You can find Thomas Little at:

https://www.instagram.com/a.rural.pen/

https://www.patreon.com/aruralpen

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