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The Power of Poetry by Young Immigrants with Patrice Vecchione

June 11, 2025
Read Time: 1 minute
Patrice Vecchione
Free Listening, Interviews
In this interview Vecchione, writer and teacher of poetry,  shares stories of her work with immigrant children and poems. Many of the struggles faced by young immigrants are the same all youth face: isolation, self-doubt and confusion. Vecchione discusses the healing power of poetry and puts a personal face on…

From Ranching To Writing with Pam Houston

May 7, 2025
Read Time: 2 minutes
Pam Houston
Free Listening, Interviews
Here Houston takes us through the life journey that led her to buy a piece of ranch land in the southwest corner of Colorado. She knew nothing about ranching but with the help of many people and animals her wandering life became tethered to the land. She describes the pivotal…

Generative Writing: An Alchemical Process for Self-Healing with Meredith Heller

September 25, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
Meredith Heller writes: “Writing has saved my life and woven me back into belonging more times than I can tell you.” She encourages and inspires us to experience the power of writing as a lifeline and companion to personal discovery. She says it’s an alchemical process that takes the raw…

Transforming Our Relationship With Chronic Pain with Sarah Anne Shockley

August 28, 2024
Read Time: 1 minute
Sarah Anne Shockley
Free Listening, Interviews
In life we all basically want the same things. We want care, understanding, empathy, and appreciation. One avenue that will take us there is to become master communicators. Most of us have had little to no training in how best to communicate in ways that foster deep trust and intimacy.…

The Matristic Culture of Pre-historic Europe with Mary Mackey, Ph.D.

October 4, 2023
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
There was a time in human history when a matristic culture dominated the social structure. When asked to describe the difference between patriarchal and matristic cultures, Mackey responded, “Patriarchy is men in charge, matriarchy would be women in charge . . . Matristic is a more collaborative, partnership, a communal…

Rejoicing with Nature In Our Own Backyards with Margaret Renkl

September 20, 2023
Read Time: 1 minute
Free Listening, Interviews
This program may stir up many memories of encounters with the wild neighbors in your own backyard. Renkl suggests stepping out of our small world of computer screens, smart phones, and TVs to step into the larger natural world, which is everywhere, just outside our front door. She helps us…

The Creative Path Is A Life Path with Cathy Wild

August 30, 2023
Read Time: 2 minutes
Cathy Wild
Free Listening, Interviews
Creativity is a journey with lots of ups and downs, twists and turns. To be creative, one cannot watch from the sidelines. Cathy Wild suggests that there is no set formula for the creative process; there are no steps 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C that guarantee a successful…

Living The Yogic Life In A Material World with Karan Bajaj

March 22, 2023
Read Time: 2 minutes
Karan Bajaj
Free Listening, Interviews
Most of us have discovered that life is never a straight line. It actually resembles a series of zig-zags. We zig in order to strengthen our creative gifts. We zag in order to provide a roof over our head and food on the table. This conversation looks at the life…

A Wider Field of Vision with a Pilot with Mark Vanhoenacker

February 8, 2023
Read Time: 2 minutes
Free Listening, Interviews
Gone are the days when flying was a fun and unique adventure. We now have to cope with lines of people at security; no more travel agents combing through airline schedules for the best deals; we now have to do that for ourselves. And, we hope there will be enough…

Finding Voice For Authentic Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams

December 7, 2022
Read Time: 1 minute
Terry Tempest Williams
Free Listening, Interviews
Terry takes us on a whirlwind tour of what it means to give voice to our own authenticity. It requires deep listening and fertile silences. She encourages us to speak “Mother Tongue” – speaking from the belly rather than the mind. She laments that in Western culture “the language of economics…
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