Staying Power Podcast with Phyllis Cole-Dai

These days, we seem to think we already know everything we need to know about everybody else, when in fact we only know our own opinions about them. What if we were more curious?

Note: This podcast will be discontinued in a few weeks. Thereafter Phyllis will post her reflections on her YouTube channel.

Phyllis reflects on the "three-ring circus of community" that followed last week's invitation to sign her red "I AM PART OF EVERYBODY" coat. Guaranteed to warm your spirits!

This podcast is part of Staying Power: Your Virtual Care Package for the Pandemic. Subscribe at phylliscoledai.com.

Phyllis is wearing her bright red winter coat again, decorated with hundreds of signatures from strangers in at least eight languages. A visual reminder of the power of community, it's big enough to hold the world. Care to sign? Email her at [email protected].

This podcast is part of Staying Power: Your Virtual Care Package for the Pandemic. Subscribe at phylliscoledai.com.

This love story between a man, his wife, and his clarinet nudges us to tap into our creative self when going through a tough patch. Doing so helps to restore balance in our wounded spirits.

This podcast is part of Staying Power: Your Virtual Care Package for the Pandemic. Subscribe at phylliscoledai.com.

These days I'm seeing a lot of tired people. “Pandemic fatigue” or “coronavirus burnout,” the experts are calling it. But the garden teaches us we can't rush what can't be rushed.

This podcast is part of Staying Power: Your Virtual Care Package for the Pandemic. Subscribe at phylliscoledai.com.

Creative inspiration (the Muse) often comes as a surprise visitor, as if from beyond ourselves. Here's what to do when the Muse visits you. (Learn more about the poem-book in this episode.)

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A night hike inspires pure wonderment at how magical the world appears in varied shades of black; at how, without light, our eyes surrender to the guidance of other senses; at how phenomenally those senses team up to navigate a safe way through; at how profound ignorance of what's coming next forces us to pay attention to every step we take. 

This podcast is part of Staying Power: Your Virtual Care Package for the Pandemic. Get your free subscription here.

Gratefulness and humor can help us meet and overcome adversity. In that spirit, here's a rather light-hearted list of 45 silver linings Phyllis has found in the clouds of her pandemic isolation. (She'll be on hiatus the next two weeks.)

All around us, small, frightened voices are saying, “What you need is gone.” The voice of abbondanza says, “What you need is here. Even now.” What we need is within us, among us, around us—just waiting to be tapped.

Sometimes a childhood game is just a game. Sometimes it's far more.