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Imagine giving thanks for every aspect of Creation - how long would that take?

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 05:52
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In a used bookstore, I recognize that I view beloved books as family, as paper-bound kin

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
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The mind is a vicious master, searching for absolute certainty, which in truth is an illusion.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
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Like the ancient Celts, Halloween is a time for me to experiment with new forms and ways of being.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
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A pair of owls hooting in the dawn are harbingers of death and awakening.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:07
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A friend writing her autobiography realizes her life is more fiction than fact.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
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Autumn equinox is a fleeting moment of balance, in a seasonal current that moves at breakneck speed.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:22
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How often do I unwittingly add to the debris that already challenges the flow of my life?

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:02
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I struggle to teach my boys to be cautious around strangers, and trust the world.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 05:27
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There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year. I don't li...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
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Laghunasadh, the beginning of the harvest, is a time to assess the "crops" I have planted this year.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:36
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Parents do not answer want ads in the classifieds, but their unpaid, unheralded job has some of the greatest rewards.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 04:34
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John, with his Cockney accent and rough humor, is a camouflaged guerilla healer.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:14
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Jimmy, a local Scottish man who became a regular visitor in the Findhorn garden, taught me most about communication.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Wilderness brings me close to what is focused, awake, and joyful.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 05:39
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In the wilderness of Haleakala, hot water is a gift fit for the Gods.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:03
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Mothering takes many forms, many guises

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
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Are "natural disasters" really planetary "healing crises"?

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:19
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
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Melting pot, or salad bowl? How do we maintain our identity?

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 20, 2010
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 1
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I know I am in the maelstrom of transformation when I dream about snakes.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 05:05
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Insurance, by its nature, is meant to support sickness and disaster, NOT health.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:54
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I have a more intimate relationship with fire because of the woodburning stove

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:05
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Unlike my dating experiences, my mate and partner entered my life quietly, entering a stream, a sea of love, that had always been there.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
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Looking at seed catalogues in the spring is like pornography for a garden - tantalizing and full of hope

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1