POTSDAM -- Aired on WCKN-TV Monday, Dec. 22 and Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 7 p.m., Peak Moment TV host Janaia Donaldson concludes her visit with Unlearn, Rewild author Miles Olson, who examines at the challenge of unlearning industrial civilization’s distortions. He says, “We learn through being broken, we learn through imperfection. That’s how evolution happens.”

Olson also discusses being a compassionate hunter, and how facing death can bring us fully alive. “The question is, how do you give back? It’s a really weighty one when you kill [an animal for food]. I took something beautiful and I extinguished that light to feed my own.”

As a squatter living close to the land for a decade, Miles Olson learned skills through experience—trapping and hunting animals, cultivating edible plants, and burying human wastes where they’ll feed the soil and nurture new life.

Olson notes that if civilization collapsed tomorrow, we’d just start rebuilding it the next day—because it’s all we know. “For me, connecting to the land and having relationships that are healthy and honor other people, that honor life, is a necessary part of [my journey].”

“My journey has been as a squatter living close to the land, building cabins, living with friends, learning how to live really intimately with the land by hunting, foraging, scrounging … dancing between the two worlds of human society and wild nature,” Osens says.

Now in its sixth year, the Peak Moment TV programs air every week at 7 pm on Monday and Tuesday on WCKN, Time Warner Digital 30. Peak Moment programs are available on the internet at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/ in both video and audio format.

More than 80 Peak Moment TV shows are available on DVDs at the Potsdam Public Library.