Gifts of Boredom - Carla Funk
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Carla Funk | Gifts of Boredom Episode 40 “The Book of Knowledge” by Patrick Lane read at 17:20 Patrick Lane “Fumbling Towards the Star” by Carla Funk read at 25:25 Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk (2021) IG @carla_funk Attention Restoration Theory (ART) (Kaplan, 1989, 1995) suggests that mental fatigue and concentration can be improved by time spent in, or looking at nature.
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Be Still & Know I am Lost - Corey Widmer
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Corey Widmer | Be Still & Know I am Lost Episode 39 “Lost" David Wagoner poem read at 10:18 Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems (1999) Corey leads a brief Centering Prayer Practice Psalm 46: "Be still and know I am God." begins at 31:21 Corey Widmer: https://www.thirdrva.org/leadership-staff-directory/corey-widmer Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating (2009) The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living by Hilary McBride (2021) Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems edited by Phyllis...
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Laughing Over the Bass Solo - Evan Cunningham
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Evan Cunningham | Laughing Over the Bass Solo Episode 38 “1960” by Billy Collins The Rain in Portugal: Poems by Billy Collins, 2016 poem read at 15:00 “Favorite Poet” by Evan Cunningham read at 26:10 “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins The Apple that Astonished Paris by Billy Collins, 1988. The Legendary BILL EVANS TRIO 1960 Birdland Sessions f. Scott LeFaro, Paul Motian
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Let Doves Come - Gail Worsham Pitt
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Gail Worsham Pitt | Let Doves Come Episode 37 “Let Evening Come” by Jane Kenyon, Otherwise, 1996 poem read at 6:36 Dovehouse Ministries, Nashville, TN First We Were Loved by Gail Worsham Pitt, 2017 Pray as You Go:
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In the Laboratory of God - Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Pádraig Ó Tuama | In the Laboratory of God Episode 36 “Emerging” by RS Thomas read at:08:21 “Do You Believe in God?” by Padraig Ó Tuama read at: 21:13 Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama (2025) RS Thomas “Via Negativa” Ted Hughes, "Crow" (1970) TS Eliot “Four Quartets” https://poets.org/poet/t-s-eliot The Angelus prayer commemorates the Incarnation, traditionally recited three times a day, often accompanied by bells. Paul Valéry, “God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness pushes through.” Terry Pratchett, “In the beginning there was...
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Kendrick Lamar: Dollars & Change - Vanessa Sadler
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Vanessa Sadler | Kendrick Lamar: Dollars & Change Episode 35 contains explicit language and mature lyrical content Kendrick Lamar “How Much a Dollar Cost” from To Pimp a Butterfly https://open.spotify.com/search/how%20much%20a%20dollar%20cost Lyrics read throughout Vanessa Sadler: Abiding Story: https://www.abidinginstory.com/ IG: @vksadler The Allender Center podcast: Healing with Spiritual Direction, August 30, 2024 https://theallendercenter.org/2024/08/healing-with-spiritual-direction-with-vanessa-sadler/ ...
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Chaotic Incidents & Detained Immigrants - Scott Sawyer
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Scott Sawyer | Chaotic Incidents & Detained Immigrants Episode 34 The House that Love Built by Sarah Jackson with Scott Sawyer, 2020 excerpt read at 18:12 Chuck Prophet, “It’s a Good Day to Be Alive”, from Wake the Dead, 2024 lyrics read at 26:25 “I Want Everything” Susan Haroutunian Cunningham poem read at 32:50 Earthly Fathers, A Memoir by Scott Sawyer, 2001 SJS Communications
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A Healing Hum - Heather Stringer
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Heather Stringer | A Healing Hum Episode 33 This episode contains material of a sensitive nature. "Hum, Hum” by Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems, 2013 poem read at 16:36 Life in Ritual https://www.lifeinritual.com/ IG: @life_in_ritual The Allender Center Blog: Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, (1997) Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver, Oprah magazine: Makers & Mystics podcast: Ritual Making & Performance Art with Heather Stringer
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How to Kill Community - Logan Baker
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Logan Baker | How to Kill Community Episode 32 "How do you create community?" by Tad Hargrave Tad Hargrave Substack: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/p/how-do-you-create-community-a-poem Poem read at: 12:11 Logan Baker: https://blueridgewilderness.com/who-we-are/our-team/logan-baker-lpc IG: @blueridgewilderness David Wilcox, “We Make the Way by Walking”, The View from the Edge (2018) Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1986) Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy" Port William & “The Membership”--fictional American rural...
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More is Less - Elise Kazanjian
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Elise Kazanjian | More is Less Episode 31 Naomi Shiab Nye https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye Poem read at: 17:18 No More More More More by Elise Kazanjian Read at: 18:13 Persimmon Tree Online Journal “Gate A-4” Naomi Shihab Nye “Musical Chairs and a Wide Swing” Susan Haroutunian Cunningham Passager Issue 75 Kathleen McClung Jane Hirshfield Kevin Fagan The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
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“Oh, Had I A Golden Thread” lyrics by Pete Seeger, 1962
Lyrics at 10:55
“Oh, Had I A Golden Thread” from Songbird by Eva Cassidy, 1998
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone” by Pete Seeger, 1955
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