http://soundcloud.com/expresionmusical/me-robaste-el-coraz-n-alex

yay for downtime!  esp. needed for kids, many of whom are way overscheduled these days.  let 'em play!

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61 Dedicated Natural Sounds

Spiritual Night Growing

Birch Forest

Birch Forest (Reinvented)

A Boy

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/31/protest-poem-ella-wheeler-wilcox-amanda-palmer/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Amanda Palmer reads "Protest" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1914)

Yep it's quiet, approx 32dB SPL at this location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81ne_Mahuta
Latitude: -35° 36' 4.06" S
Longitude: 173° 31' 38.49" E
 
Recorder: Sonosax SXR4+ @ 24b/96k , gain at 80dB. (downsampled to 44.1 for soundcloud streaming)
Microphones: Sennheiser MKH 40/30 M/S pair

Tane Mahuta predawn quiet

Silenzio d'amuri   (Stefano Accorsi  L' Arpeggiata ) wmv

Easy and Calm Night Meditation - Calming Sounds for Sleep, Yoga, Relaxation

Boost Your Mood

An improvisation that just developed using a rather lovely guitar, and a wonderful alt tuning (DADGAD) that is just perfect for Mr Lowden's fine instruments. 

A couple of glitches got into the play, but it was an enjoyable process creating this contemporary guitar improv - has a pretty springtime lilt and I hope it makes you smile.  =)

Springtime Shanty

A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals and the human condition. 

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/voice-animals/60

Alan Rabinowitz — A Voice for the Animals (April 18, 2013)

One of the values of science is to make us uncomfortable says Lawrence Krauss. The particle physicist explains why we should all care about dark energy and the Higgs Boson particle. Science literacy matters, and, more importantly, he suggests we should take joy in science — just as we cultivate enjoyment of arts we may not completely comprehend.

http://www.onbeing.org/program/our-origins-and-the-weight-of-space-with-lawrence-krauss/5216


Lawrence Krauss — Our Origins and the Weight of Space

New York poet laureate Marie Howe reads her poem "The Meadow" during an interview with Krista Tippett. This poem is included in On Being's show "The Poetry of Ordinary Time." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

"The Meadow" by Marie Howe

http://www.onbeing.org/program/creativity-and-everyday-brain/1879

With new techniques of brain imaging, neuroscientist Rex Jung and his colleagues are gaining a whole new view of the differences and the interactions between intelligence, creativity, and personality: 

"With intelligence, there's the analogy I've used is there's this superhighway in the brain that allows you to get from point A to point B. With creativity, it's a slower, more meandering process where you want to take the side roads and even the dirt roads to get there."

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? Rex Jung unsettles some old assumptions, and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, creativity and purpose.

Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain (May 2, 2013)

TRY / Tratar de Transformar

For Mother's Day, the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, mother, and grandmother: Sylvia Boorstein. The best way to nurture children's inner lives, she says, is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista Tippett draws out the warmth and wisdom of Ms. Boorstein, and, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Ms. Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/what-we-nurture-with-sylvia-boorstein/242

Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture (May 9, 2013)

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain (May 2, 2013)

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