PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Dandelion seeds blowback on to their stem making a few lights in the way lines look like they were pulsing morse code, letters replaced.  A single ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 15:59
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack restores broken guitars, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jelly Role Morton
Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in New Orleans right before the turn of the 20th Century, Jelly Role Morton is credited as one of the founding father...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was known for her counter-culture approach to performance. Breaking the molds of the stereotypical "girl singer" with her dress, her st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dizzy Gillespie
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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You hear about it all the time, but how many people truly know what diversity is all about? Can a traffic light teach us?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
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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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A short trip became a six-hour journey through the frigid night desert.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 05:09
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As the outer light dims in winter, my inner vision expands

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Marking the solstice in an ancient Scottish burial cairn - celebrating new light, and new birth

Bought by KZYX and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
This day of balanced light and dark is often marked by elemental wildness

  • Added: Sep 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:18
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Poet Emily Warn reading her poem, "The Hand of God," with commentary by literary producer Elizabeth Austen.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:19
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Gradual versus spontaneous spiritual awakening

  • Added: Jun 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
A story of healing

  • Added: Apr 10, 2009
  • Length: 07:51
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Striving for healing

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 07:06
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Spiritual Issues

  • Added: Apr 04, 2009
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Trying to hang on to a physical remnant of past wilderness experiences.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Many kinds of plastic are forever, or nearly so.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1