PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative
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Homo sapien, human being. Homo mustus, human doing. How much of my life is defined by my doing rather than my being?
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:31
I know my mother and my children, literally, from the inside out.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:20
On May Day, the first day of summer in the Celtic calendar, I celebrate the music of Turlough O'Carolan, the last great Irish composer and harpist.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 06:02
Many view Jesus' life like a beautiful garden. Rather than becoming spectators, though, Jesus challenges us to become gardeners in our own right.
- Added: May 31, 2011
- Length: 05:29
Archaeologist Mark Lehner says that his field is really about the art of observation.
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KRUA, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 01:16
- Purchases: 4
For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:26
Sleeping in a cave along Australia's West coast, I could hear, but not join, an ancient corroboree.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:28
What catalyzes change in my life? Although fear and pain top the list, only inspiration is a sustainable fuel.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:36
When I first walked into the nursing home, I saw the residents as "living cadavers." Later I came to love them and celebrate their lives.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
Walking on a beach on Australia's east coast, I witnessed my birthday, and the birth of a new year.
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 05:11
In death is the possibility of harvest - making life from the fruits of the passing season.
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 05:25
Celebrating the birthday of my 70 year old friend Louise, who is in full bloom.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 05:41
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
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...
Bought by WMPG
- Added: Dec 06, 2010
- Length: 10:01
- 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
This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 27:52
- Purchases: 1
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
