Vortex Vibration

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/10/mary-oliver-on-punctuation/

Recorded by the Lannan Foundation, 2001

TRANSCRIPT

Seven White Butterflies: Mary Oliver on punctuation

I've included a short spoken intro to this recording. 

Family groups of Colobus monkeys call in the early hours at Mt. Meru, each group starting off the next in a kind of 'mexican wave' around the mountain. If you listen carefully, you'll hear distant groups begin, and the sound of their wonderful growling build as nearby groups join the chorus. The loud yapping calls heard at beginning and end are those of Northern Greater Galagos (Bush Babies).

Colobus Monkeys calling at Mount Meru, Tanzania - intro by Andrew Skeoch

Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? Are you ready, instead, to find &#8220;The One&#8221;? In Calling in &#8220;The One,&#8221; Katherine Woodward Thomas shares her own personal experience to show women that in order to find the relationship that will last a lifetime, you have to be truly open and ready to create a loving, committed, romantic union. Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; shows you how. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we&#8217;re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas&#8217;s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life. Meditation, visualization, and journaling exercises will gently lead you to recognize the obstacles on your path to love and provide ways to steer around them. At the end of those 49 days, you will be in the ideal emotional state to go out into the world and find &#8220;The One.&#8221; An inspirational approach that offers a radical new philosophy on relationships, Calling in &#8220;The One&#8221; is your guide to finding the love you seek.

Calling in "The One" by Katherine Woodward Thomas, read by Katherine Woodward Thomas

#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell shares the secrets to success in this 90-day guide, based on his book Thinking For a Change.
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Jumpstart Your Thinking by John C. Maxwell, Read by Chris Sorensen- Audiobook Excerpt

Maria Konnikova’s new book, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time, takes a deep dive into the psychology of con artists and the psychology of the trusting people they take advantage of. It’s a scary and fascinating book that reveals the methods and motives of con artists like Bernie Madoff, Jim Bakker, and Lance Armstrong, and explains why everyone is vulnerable to the con artist’s game, even other con artists.

11: Marina Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game

&ldquo;I know where I&rsquo;m going. I&rsquo;m still myself. I just can&rsquo;t remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I&rsquo;ll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It&rsquo;s like I&rsquo;m talking to my other self&mdash;the self I used to be. She tells me, This is what we need to buy&mdash;not that. I&rsquo;m conscious of that other self guiding me now.&rdquo; &#160; Restaurateur, magazine publisher, celebrity chef, and nationally known lifestyle maven, B. Smith is struggling at 66 with a tag she never expected to add to that string: Alzheimer's patient.&#160; She&rsquo;s not alone. Every 67 seconds someone newly develops it, and millions of lives are affected by its aftershocks. &#160; B. and her husband, Dan, working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, unstintingly share their unfolding story. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with practical and helpful advice, readers learn about dealing with Alzheimer's day-to-day challenges: the family realities and tensions, ways of coping, coming research that may tip the scale, as well as lessons learned along the way. &#160; At its heart, Before I Forget is a love story: illuminating a love of family, life, and hope.

Before I Forget by B. Smith, Dan Gasby, Michael Shnayerson, read by B. Smith, Dan Gasby

David Whyte reads his poem "Finisterre." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"Finisterre" by David Whyte

David Whyte reads his poem "Stone" (Thobar Phadraig). 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/8560

"Stone" (Thobar Phadraig) by David Whyte

Turning towards difficulties, a guided meditation with Josephine Lynch (15 mins) 

Turning Towards Difficulty Soften  Soothe Allow 2 (1)

This was recorded in late October, in the hour before dawn, on the Luangwa River in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.  The first part of the recording features the undulating liquid call of White-browed Coucal. Noisy Egyptian Geese, White-crowned Lapwing and Hadeda Ibis are heard throughout, as is the splashing of Hippopotamus in the river. The track ends with a loud exchange of Hippopotamus grunts.

Telinga SSM microphone, Olympus LS-11 recorder

Morning on the Luangwa River, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia (2013-10-22-0089c)

Distant Fires Burning (a.k.a. Gert De Meester) : Bass guitars, Electronics, Treatments 
Seigo Aoyama : Ac. Piano, Stylophone, Synthesizers, Sample

© 2019 by Distant Fires Burning, Seigo Aoyama.  All rights reserved.

Distant Fires Burning + Seigo Aoyama - Monostone

I did a rework of Nils Frahm's song 'You'. The original is part of the 'Screws' album that was recorded by Nils with only 9 fingers, after breaking one of them in an accident.



"You" - Rework (Original by Nils Frahm)

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.” David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a “beautiful question” amid the drama of work as well as the drama of life and the ways the two overlap. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O’Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like “two bookends.” More recently, he’s written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. This show originally aired in April 2016.

On Being with Krista Tippett

David Whyte – The Conversational Nature Of Reality

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/03/15/today-another-universe-jane-hirshfield-ledger-jasmine

Kindly recorded by the poet for Brain Pickings.

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Jane Hirshfield reads "Today, Another Universe"

Rely on Silence - Part 4

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.

"Stone" (Thobar Phadraig) by David Whyte

On Being Studios

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