Gifts of Boredom - Carla Funk
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
Living Poetry
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
info_outlineSandra McCracken - Bless the Space
Episode 20
“A Morning Offering”, John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us
Read at 15:56
“The Space Between”, Sandra McCracken, Cindy Morgan, Gabe Dixon from Christmas
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1AbUIe7rsWEscPcKKqNhYm?si=AZN8de5LRA2PBz5PV7MvYQ&nd=1&dlsi=8210ae6ded90403b
Lyrics read at 23:00
https://www.sandramccracken.com/
Instagram: @sandramccracken
The Maker of the Mountain by Sandra McCracken and Tim Nicholson, illustrated by Fia Tobing (2025)
Light in the Canyon
Songs from the Valley
Psalms
On Being with Krista Tippett: John O’Donohue The Inner Landscape of Beauty
https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty/