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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
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Walking by the river in winter, I see the bare bones winter landscape, and see the same transparency in my own aging.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:42
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Creation moves from sound to light, manifest to unmanifest

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:14
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This is an evaluation of Zhang Huan's piece "Seeds", which currently hangs in the Saatchi Gallery in London.A

  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 03:09
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The author reminds her loved ones that the valentines keep coming all year long.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
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Tattoos have surpassed lockets as a way of keeping memories close.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:06
Caption: There's too many books!, Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, chrisrobinsonphotography
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?

  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 06:30
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Miep Gies, the Austrian woman whose family protected the family of Anne Frank during World War II and who found Anne's diary scattered on the floor...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 19:01
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Gathering Hope House Radio is a program produced by members of the Gathering Hope House, a peer-managed mental health recovery center in Lorain, OH.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 14:29
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How would I treat my friends and family if I knew they were a child of light?

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
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A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts ...

Bought by The Story, KUT, and WILL


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
  • Purchases: 3
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As the Phish reunion tour wraps up, a Phish-head fan reflects on following the band before the internet. (3:30 version)

  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: Phish playing Hampton Coliseum in VA, Credit: http://yamar2001.wordpress.com
As Phish reunion tour wraps up, a Phish-head fan reflects on following the band before the internet.

Bought by WILL


  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 05:35
  • Purchases: 1
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Gratitude and desire are two sides of the same coin.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:20
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October is breast cancer awareness month.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Each month brings its own special feeling. October is a month of apple-crisp days, cool nights and the sense that time is moving on.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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"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

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:38

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30

  • Added: Nov 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
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How the passage of time touches every life

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:59