Novel Ideas

It's damn near the end of February, and abandonment's a pretty important topic as Spring arrives. Abandonment of old ideals, forgone relationships, even our sense of self. Giovanni Zander is plagued by nightmares and a foreboding sense of dissatisfaction in the air. Nothing a cute boy, and an unexpected visitor can't solve. No expectations and all love in this episode of complicated feelings in today's newest episode!

I don't think many of us will be able to make it when the greatest epoch of our lives happens. If aliens even want to save us. I'm more for recombinating us into celestial soup and raising our consciousness to recognizing humanity is overrated. Love, compassion, understanding? Nothing to do with being human and everything to do with recognizing life has needs, and it should be greater than staying what we can never be again. Tune in for a positively engrossing episode.

Can we say love until it fills the room? Caresses my ears soundly whispering prayers at night from mothers to their children? Silent trust displayed only in dreams flitting between stars twinkling starlight over bright irises wishing upon visions held for a brief moment? Love is fleeting, and vast, and wild, and pure, until it swallows us whole. May you find your own story of love to light your way in today's episode.

Turns out the title is very appropriate because I can seem to remember Ms. Harper's first name. But the title is unforgettable, and the end of January his right in front of us, and review is in session. Accountability, conversations on drawing boundaries, and understanding when it is time to move on. I hope you enjoy today's episode!

Consider for a moment where you are, and recognizing it's where you're supposed to be? That trials must come from uncomfortability and residing in the discomfort proves the greatest test of our humanity. Dune's gom Jabbar seems to be the catalyst for change and self-determination, a willingness to confront truth that distresses us, in order to reach satisfaction. Hopefully, I can deal with feeling a little uncomfortable, and hopefully you can enjoy this newest episode of the podcast.

Much consideration must be taken to the topic of control, January 20th is looming enough as it is. We hope find ourselves not subject to systems "larger" than us, but who offers us these limitations? Darrow has come to figure out that the Society he's lived in has perpetuated lies throughout his life, his wife has participated in a conspiracy, and Darrow is the agent of chaos who is fixed on changing the system. My bad, destroying and changing seems so synonymous these days. Enjoy the first many upcoming episodes of this dystopian world where color means the difference between life and death and the access that comes with it.

If you've been here for a while, you know as soon as I see or hear the mention Kazuo Ishiguro, the conversation is going to be amazing. Of course, also reflecting on the minutiae of life to make sense of where we are and where we're going is also too enticing to pass up. Cohen's seamless integration of literary works' characters' personal experiences paralleling the real-life psychoanalytical sessions of everyday people, blurring lines between the fictional and realistic expressions of life, How To Live offers an implicit understanding that the examples of "how to" is all around us, it's just a matter of being around long enough figure it out for yourself.

I really would've done this book a disservice not discussing its conversation in the context of our lives. Time is owed to no one, and ultimately we are the arbiters of our lives, choices, and their outcomes. It remains to be seen whether that is what happens, but I'm hoping for something meaningful from me for me by me. And I'm hoping you find something similar after you listen to this bonus episode.

It would be an understatement to say I related to the conversation around time at its objectivity to our everyday experiences, especially concerning its lack of perspective on us in general.But it's that fixation that drives me to consider my relationship to time as we embrace another New Year, and seem to affix ourselves to the implicit experience of something new when it remains to be misunderstood that another is waiting. What makes it New? And what do we do with that? Happy New Year and Happy New Episode!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all an [eventual] New Year! Scrooge is facing his final trial and let's just say the judge isn't saying much. But who would need to when everybody seems delighted that you aren't here. Strike that. People are AMBIVALENT about your death. Definitely worse. But lest Scrooge and we forget, he's still alive and that's worth something more. I hope you find the reminder comforting on this day, and more to come, with this final reading. MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY HOLIDAY!