Facing asymmetry, former selves, and meditating with our eyes open. 

A wooden table, orange slices, the spitting tree, and the "mishap" lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. 

The names of my childhood dentists, Santa's silver sleigh bells, and directing loving-kindness inward. 

Pickup trucks with fully functioning heaters, Mariah Carey, and Pema Chodron. 

This episode includes 10 minutes of meditation. If I may offer a tea pairing for this portion of the episode: https://songtea.com/products/song-red

This is the tea that I was enjoying while creating this episode. 

This episode includes music samples from the site SPLICE, clips from Mariah Carey (for dramatic emphasis), as well as a reading from the book Awakening Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron. https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Loving-Kindness-Pema-Chodron/dp/1570622590

Preview of the next 14 weeks of Makercast

Awakening Loving Kindness: https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Loving-Kindness-Pema-Chodron/dp/1570622590

Join me for ten minutes of meditation. 

A note to you. A note to me. A note to all of us. 

Music for this episode: 

SoulSurplus - Various Samples

Ghostrifter - Sundown Drive

To read Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte: https://onbeing.org/poetry/everything-is-waiting-for-you/

For his book by the same title: https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Waiting-You-David-Whyte/dp/0962152463

Learn along with me as I sift through and benefit from the work of Poet and Teacher Mark Nepo. 

(https://marknepo.com/books_onelife.php)

Music for this Episode: 

Crowander - Medita

Daniel Birch - Sustained Light

Bio Unit - Industrial Zone

Stories about working with fear. 

Music for this episode: 

Oh My - Patrick Patrikios

Sing A Rainbow - Peggy Lee

A look into bridging the gap between where we are and where we want to be, through learning to want that which we already have. 

*The concepts in this episode were inspired by the work of William B Irvine (https://www.williambirvine.com/)*

Music for this episode: 

NOMYN - FLOW