Podcast Episodes

Narrated Essay: Something That We Are Still Building

A few references for working with gratitude this week …

* Gratitude is a felt practice. It’s not a cognitive list-making process, nor is it the self-s…

2 years, 7 months ago

Narrated Essay: Everything That Is Not Elephant

Do not try to savethe whole worldor do anything grandiose.Instead, createa clearingin the dense forestof your lifeand wait therepatiently,until the s…

2 years, 8 months ago

Narrated Essay: Until We Carry Each Other

Washington was the city of my formation. It’s where I arrived as an undergrad with a box of scribbled journals and a smoking habit. Also, where I smo…

2 years, 8 months ago

Narrated Essay: Where All Of Me Is Ancestor

Deep autumn. Breath takes shape again on the air. Walking with the ghosts of this warring world as day tips toward evening on the cross-quarter betwe…

2 years, 8 months ago

Narrated Essay: Finding In the Darkness Glimmering

Over the past few weeks, I’ve often noticed the part of me that longs for silence, for inner coherence in a fractured world. The part that doesn’t wa…

2 years, 8 months ago

Narrated Essay: The Hum of a Boy's Dream

Today. Scenes from inside Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, where thousands are sheltering and seeking care.

Three or four children are curled in each bed.

A fath…

2 years, 9 months ago

Narrated Essay: In Blackwater Woods Again

Sunday morning at home. The hum of my children’s voices. The scent of cinnamon and pumpkin waffles. I roam from room to room, seeking a patch of autu…

2 years, 9 months ago

Narrated Essay: Fishing for Fallen Light

I have a quiet aversion to conversations about wellbeing. The term conjures images of privilege and appropriation, like the time I was instructed to …

2 years, 10 months ago