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I've spent much of my life ruled by the long-armed reach of the clock. Now, focusing on the present moment, I'm learning to live outside time.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:18
At six years old, in my family's barren living room, Santa furnished our hearts with love.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:48
Living in Scotland, where the mid-winter sun barely crests the horizon, a tiny oak seedling unfurled its leaves on solstice morning.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:21
Is there time for life after email?
- Added: Dec 02, 2010
- Length: 01:48
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
If I viewed my life as an experiment, a Petri dish of experience, what would I devote myself to?
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 05:24
Imagine giving thanks for every aspect of Creation - how long would that take?
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 05:52
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
In a used bookstore, I recognize that I view beloved books as family, as paper-bound kin
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:31
The mind is a vicious master, searching for absolute certainty, which in truth is an illusion.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:15
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
A pair of owls hooting in the dawn are harbingers of death and awakening.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:07
A friend writing her autobiography realizes her life is more fiction than fact.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:38
Autumn equinox is a fleeting moment of balance, in a seasonal current that moves at breakneck speed.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:22
How often do I unwittingly add to the debris that already challenges the flow of my life?
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:02
I struggle to teach my boys to be cautious around strangers, and trust the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:27
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
We fly to Las Vegas for the weekend while a racing pigeon finds her way to the farm.
- Added: Aug 31, 2010
- Length: 09:39
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
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
John, with his Cockney accent and rough humor, is a camouflaged guerilla healer.
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:14
Jimmy, a local Scottish man who became a regular visitor in the Findhorn garden, taught me most about communication.
Bought by KISU
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
Wilderness brings me close to what is focused, awake, and joyful.
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:39
Little League baseball offers training in a field of dreams
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:27
Poem about origins performed by members of Santa Fe Indian School's spoken word team.
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
