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Thanks for listening! This is an older post completely re-worked for the podcast (I think about 25% of the original post made it into this one...). Certainly we are doing a lot more collective focusing on both the externals and the internals in this past year, and this will likely continue well into 2021!

Be kind to yourself.

Music by Kai Engel is Brand New World, and found here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Sustains

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The very first Something From Everything Holiday Special! Here's hoping it can live up to the high, high bar set by other Holiday Specials...

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Hi friends! This one has been a labour for a while. Special thanks to the unnamed friend who was generous and gracious enough to give me the okay to release this episode...

Music at the end is Kai Engel’s Laburnum, off their album Chapter Four, fall. It is licensed under Creative commons attribution licence, and you this and other tracks of Kai’s at  freemusicarchive.org

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Drawing on the poem "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry, Matt reflects on a recent encounter with the seemingly otherworldly, 'super' natural.

On Being Productions has a beautiful production of this poem, read by Berry himself and set to music and animation. You can find it here: https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-peace-of-wild-things/

The story of Jacob's vision is found in the book of Genesis, chapter 28, starting at verse 10.

The music closing out this post is Kai Engels' Labernum. It is found on his album "Chapter Four: Fall", and licenced under creative commons, attribution 4.0. You can find his music at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel

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The one where Matt goes chasing rainbows (but never waterfalls!) and reflects on Peter Rollins' concept of the lack (which he adapts from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer)

I got to see Peter Rollins perform this live in Seattle with Rob Bell during the "Holy Shift" tour. It was fantastic. You can find his whole 20 (ish) minute performance here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/holy-shift-tour-the-wholly-other-inner-dimension/id1296444316?i=1000430582627

Also, aren't you glad I didn't try to imitate his accent?

Yes. I accidentally said "spurns" instead of spurs. Yes, it means the opposite.

Kai Engel makes beautiful music, a lot of which is both free to download, and is available for content creators to share under Creative Commons license. I'm so grateful for this. Check out his work:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/Chapter_Four__Fall

The episode artwork features photography by Fietzfotos, found on Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/users/fietzfotos-6795508/

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Thich Nhat Hanh argues that we can be mindful about every thing that we do. In this episode, Matt reflects on the role of pain in increasing our mindfulness. A brief overview of Thich Nhat Hanh's teaching and life can be found at https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/.

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Inspired by a very particular (but unfortunately not rare!) run in with an anti-masker at the grocery store. This episode looks at the common forces that are currently squeezing all of us during this pandemic. And it looks to the greater squeeze ahead.

Opening music is "Memory" by the band, Creo. Closing music is "Dazed" by the band Airtone. Under Creative Commons. Found on https://freemusicarchive.org/

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I owe the whole notion of "The Territory We Have Already Entered" to David Whyte, and his conversation with Krista Tippett (an On Being podcast, link below). From this comes the idea that any space we find ourselves in (even this most mundane and familiar) is full of complexity and possibility. I hope you enjoy it.

https://onbeing.org/programs/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality/

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