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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 21:14
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 04:43
This month on Open Mind, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun and author, joins us once again to talk about our sense of self?—?what’s healthy, wh...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 06:57
How do rivers, deserts, mountains and solitary monks weather the bitter cold?
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Thomas McCall, a 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be, was already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:39
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 05:45
I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 04:47
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
I know I am in the maelstrom of transformation when I dream about snakes.
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 05:05
Spring winds scour the land and dance in my soul.
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 05:46
Insurance, by its nature, is meant to support sickness and disaster, NOT health.
- Added: Mar 02, 2010
- Length: 04:54
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
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
A short trip became a six-hour journey through the frigid night desert.
- Added: Jan 14, 2010
- Length: 05:09
How would I treat my friends and family if I knew they were a child of light?
- Added: Dec 23, 2009
- Length: 04:23
As the outer light dims in winter, my inner vision expands
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
Marking the solstice in an ancient Scottish burial cairn - celebrating new light, and new birth
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
Graciously receiving a present can be as great a gift as giving one.
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 06:29
"For most of my adult life, I’ve had my hands on the wheel. With lists on my mind and places to be and things to do. I’ve worked hard and tried to ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2009
- Length: 03:30
"I wanted to tell him that this was only beginning. That for the rest of his life that little girl, who no matter how old she was would always be h...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
Expectation breeds disappointment - how to balance with expectancy
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:06
Letters can be treasures more precious than gold or silver
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:09
Mystics live quietly, and for the most part unnoticed, in their community.
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:34
Mother Theresa and a prison visiting room demonstrate the power of love
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:16
Visiting 500- and 1,000-year-old oak trees in Britain
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1