Name: The Merry`Go Round (1) by NICKSPEAK in NICKSPEAK
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: Remember when you were a kid and the carnival came to town for a hot summer weekend?

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Nigerian poet, Ben Okri, immortalizes the horrific Grenfell fire in June 2017. Why The Poor Die!

eMastered Grenfell Tower-Okri

JFK's dramatic eulogy on the death of the American Poet Laureate, Robert Frost. Moving and prescient.

eMastered JFK

Poem text and context:  https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/09/margaret-atwood-habitation-marriage

Read by @amandapalmer for Brain Pickings.

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Amanda Palmer reads "Habitation" by Margaret Atwood

"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
Ps. 139:23-24 NIV

Dangerous Prayers, Day 3, Search Me

"Playing the odds is a fragile place to put your hope"
John Piper

Coronavirus And Christ, Day 1, Come To The Rock

Reality Refresh

Comfort

"Do you need a miracle from God? Would you like to be used by God as a channel for a miracle?"
NIV Leadership Bible

Walking Along Side of A Miracle-Working God, Day 2

"Travel with me for a moment back to the narrow dirt roads of a first-century Roman outpost."
Morgan Snyder

Becoming A King

"Mallards by the dozens were circling overhead. I was belt-deep in the Mississippi delta buckbrush, finger positioned just about the safety."
Jason Cruise

The Gift Of Silence By Jason Cruise

"I think of myself as the auteur of my life, "a singular artist who controls all aspects of collaborative creative work, a person equivalent to the author of a novel or a play"
N Hahn

Leo Sings The Blues

"My Dad, a lifelong Republican, was a B-17 pilot and POW in WW11. He was shot down over Berlin on his 12th mission."
Danna Beal

WHAT WOULD MY DAD SAY? by Danna Beal

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"
Mark 10:25

The Eye Of A Needle

My generation saw WW2, my parents and their parents saw a great depression, WW1 and political revolutions in France and Russia; now it's our turn.

MEA CULPA By Nick Hahn

Remember when you were a kid and the carnival came to town for a hot summer weekend?

The Merry`Go Round (1)

Nick Hahn: Writer, Performance Reader, Narrator,
Notre Dame, Yale
Madison, CT

The Merry`Go Round (1)

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