On this inaugural episode of the Nature-Spirit podcast, as Black Lives Matter protests grow throughout the world, some thoughts from philosopher bell hooks and her sharecropper grandfather, Daddy Jerry, on how nature has the power to reveal white claims to power and supremacy as lies. The reality is that we all die; this is “the great democratic gift the earth offers us,” says bell hooks. And in light of nature's ultimate power, we are all utterly equal. In memory of Breonna Taylor, killed by police, who would have been 27 today.