Peace Is Here with Avis Kalfsbeek

George Nakashima: Wood & Soul

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. In this episode, we honor George Nakashima—architect, craftsman, and wood whisperer—who listened to trees and let design grow from them rather than impose upon them. We explore his philosophy, his time in internment, and his vision of Altars for Peace.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworker’s Reflections

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

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Virginia Woolf: A Room and a Voice

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. This episode looks at the life and work of Virginia Woolf, whose writing and essays transformed how we understand time, consciousness, and creative independence. We reflect on her insistence that women need money and space in order to write—and how that applies to all of us trying to think clearly in today’s noisy world.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Leonard Cohen: Song, Silence, and Shadow

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. We explore the life of Leonard Cohen—a poet, singer, and spiritual seeker—whose artistry emerged from stillness and whose words embraced brokenness. This episode reflects on his monastic years and how silence can become a keeper.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life by Anthony Reynolds

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Frida Kahlo: The Art of Keeping Pain

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft: Frida Kahlo didn’t minimize or mask her pain. She turned it into art—and by doing so, left a legacy of radical honesty and emotional survival. In this episode, we reflect on the unflinching beauty of her life and work, and what it means to keep our hardest stories with care.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Albert Einstein: Thought in Motion

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft: In this episode, we meet Albert Einstein—the physicist whose ideas reshaped the cosmos, and whose life showed ways to simplify without loss. We lean into his habits of clarity and how we might adopt simplicity today.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

The Social & Systemic "Enough." We honor Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of Hull House. She demonstrated that building peace and dismantling inequality is a local act—one block, one home, and one person at a time.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) by Jane Addams

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Bill Cunningham: The Eye on the Street

The Social & Systemic "Enough" continues. In this episode, we honor Bill Cunningham, whose lifelong devotion to street fashion gave dignity to everyday dressing. We reflect on how noticing detail, preserving integrity, and staying rooted in curiosity can be quiet acts of peace and resistance to commercial influence.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Bill Cunningham: On the Street (Five Decades of Iconic Photography)

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Bea Johnson: Waste Not, Want More

The Social & Systemic "Enough" continues. In this episode, we meet Bea Johnson—mother, minimalist, and pioneer of the zero waste lifestyle. We explore her 5R philosophy, the in-home challenges, and how refusing can become a spiritual act that challenges consumer systems.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

José Andrés: Building the Longer Table

The Social & Systemic "Enough" continues! Chef and humanitarian José Andrés has redefined how we feed people in crisis. But at the heart of his mission is something simple: building longer tables, not higher walls.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: We Fed an Island by José Andrés

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

Toni Cade Bambara: Story as Resistance

The Social & Systemic "Enough" continues! In this episode, we honor Toni Cade Bambara, whose writing, activism, and teaching insisted that stories matter. We reflect on her commitment to language as a tool of justice, and on what it means for us to speak when silence feels safer.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays & Conversations by Toni Cade Bambara

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez