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Narrated Essay: When the Forest Stirs
Adulthood has long been overlooked as a phase in human development. This is, in part, due to its implicit assumption of steadiness. Its shifting hues…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
All We Get To Carry | Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Episode 17
In this episode, we talk with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about the grief that carries love through unimaginable loss—the death of a child—and of …
10 months ago
Gem Tactics with Shawn Parell & David Keplinger
Episode 16
Welcome to The Guest House, a commonweal meditation on the complexities and creative potential of being human in an era of radical change. In Season …
11 months ago
Narrated Essay: Hold It Up Like a Telescope
Love tenderizes everything. I tell myself this upon waking, when darkness gives way to dew and even the desert becomes supple again. Love tenderizes …
1 year ago
Narrated Essay: In the Realm of the River
The sound of flowing water soothes most nervous systems, but particularly those acclimatized to the desert, and particularly upon waking. I have stru…
1 year, 1 month ago
Circle of Visions: a Special Conversation with Mark Jensen
Episode 15
A Special Bonus Episode
I’m so grateful to share this bonus episode featuring a special conversation I had last year with my dear friend Mark Jensen. …
1 year, 1 month ago
Narrated Essay: When the Maple Turns Again
Springtime in North Carolina is gorgeous. It can’t help itself. Perhaps it’s oblivious to—or in radical disagreement with—the brokenness of our times…
1 year, 2 months ago
Narrated Essay: Knitting Undercover
Today is the Vernal Equinox. We’re promised incremental victories of light. But early spring is no darling — not here in the high desert. Here, she c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Narrated Essay: Endurance
Found amidst the twisted metal and ash of a family’s home in the Pacific Palisades is a pottery shard with a single word inscribed upon it: love.
It’s…
1 year, 5 months ago
Narrated Essay: Steadfast
STEADFAST
(Inspired by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s “Wordlessly”)
The way the pericardium holds the heart,
the pond holds the murk, and fish,
the bowl hol…
1 year, 5 months ago