Episode #113 Original Air Date: 10 September 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 11 minutes An addendum to the last episode on Experiments.  In this episode I more explicitly encourage the listener to design one's own experiments! Embark! Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #112 Original Air Date: 27 August 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 28 minutes What is the nature of experiment in our lives?  How does experiment help our local culture evolve, our local rituals and habits? In this episode, I explore these questions and share my recent experiment: a year without home internet. Plus, I revisit some passages from the unpublished Urbanmonks Handbook on the topic of experiment. A riveting episode! Please tune in. Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #111 Original Air Date: 7 July 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 32 minutes The first Weather of the Mind cooking episode!  Learn some tips for hosting a 20 person bbq gathering featuring skewers! Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #110 Original Air Date: 5 May 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes Grab some pen and paper, for it's time to reflect on the state of play in your life. Join us for your annual play check-in, your annual play self-assessment. Living and Learning, Doug

Episode #109 Original Air Date: 3 March 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 29 minutes This episode features some stories and some reflection on the topic of Poker as it pertains to emotional health.  Over the past 7 months, I have had the opportunity to play over 50 poker sessions - mostly home games, with a few casino trips interspersed. In this episode I share what I have learned about the relationship between playing poker and developing emotional health skills. Some people have told me that they are surprised that I would play poker, for they saw it is incompatible or even contradictory to the Weather of the Mind pod. In this episode I hope to set the record straight - - poker can be a great teacher of focus, decision-making, emotional regulation, social skills, risk/rewards strategy. Best to you  - - Doug PS If this show resonates, please share with your people, that is a real help.  Thanks. (plenty of ways to link to social media on the audio player on the weather of the mind page.) (Episode 101 is a great introductory episode to share) PPS Seriously though, we have no new school social media for this podcast.  So word of mouth is extremely helpful.  Old school.

Intro to the new season

Episode #107 Original Air Date: 13 April 2022 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 58 minutes Guest: Jake Seegers, founder of Fitquest, which combines role-playing and fitness pursuits. (contact him: [email protected]) Music sample: "Flute Loop" - Beastie Boys. RIP MCA. The Weather of the Mind pod is back!  It has been a challenging winter up here in Ithaca.  More details on that in a future pod. This episode features Ithaca-based innovator and all-around nice guy, Jake Seegers.  His work caught my attention because I appreciate when people innovate and create a collision between two things that are not often put together. In this long interview (I decided not to break it up into two episodes), we talk a lot about narrative, games, fitness, and bringing these together in clever ways. So happy to be back with you.  I have missed working on pods. Happy Spring. Doug

Episode #106 Original Airdate: 30 September 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes Special Episode... Please share with your nature-loving peeps... a great episode to introduce new people to this podcast... In this episode I give a tribute to a mighty white oak tree, whose massive umbrella inspired and protected my family and me for many seasons. Topics that appear in this episode include: rituals, seasons, relationship to nature. A real treat! Tune in! -- -- “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts ac...

Episode #105 Original Airdate: 27 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes Interview with Kaylea Forsythe.  Part II. We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender a foundational shift in emotional health. Tune in! References: Root Bound.  Essay by Kaylea Forsythe. 2021. https://vocal.media/journal/root-bound

Episode #104 Original Airdate: 5 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 minutes Interview with Kaylea Forsythe.  Part I of II. We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender a foundational shift in emotional health. References: Root Bound.  Essay by Kaylea Forsythe. 2021. https://vocal.media/journal/root-bound

Episode #103 Original Airdate: 13 July 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes How is your relationship to the Sun? Do you know the basics... how far away the sun is?  How large the sun is? How is your relationship to your own skin?  After all, this is the part of our bodies - along with our eyes - that interacts with the rays of the sun.  Do you understand how to protect your skin? In this episode, I introduce 'The Shadow Rule' and encourage a deeper understanding of our relationship with the sun. And then after we touch upon the basics of science,  we take a look at culture - what happened to our old nature-based deities?  Our sun deities?  And how do these shifts in culture affect our understanding of our place in the world... in the galaxy ... An action packed, not-to-be-missed episode... Tune in!

Episode #102 Original Airdate: 11 June 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 22 minutes The pandemic is winding down in the United States. But the repercussions are rumbling... through our own selves, our towns and neighborhoods, and around the world. Even if better times are ahead of us, it seems that we are still in the midst of a lot of chaos and change. So let us explore the metaphor of the False Peak and how it relates to setting expectations. Tune in!  

Episode #101 Original Airdate: 7 May 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 34 minutes Weather of the Mind 101.  Past, Present and Future.  A reintroduction of sorts. Included in the 'past' section of this pod... my telling of my own "Einstein with compass moment." And as part of the 'future' section ... I read an encouraging email from a former student. Tune in!

Episode #100 Original Airdate: 1 April 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 24 minutes A celebration of sorts... where I give some thanks to a handful of friends and brainstorm pals for their support over the past 2.5 years. I posed this question to these members of my de facto board of advisors:  why does the Weather of the Mind podcast resonate with you? Insightful and encouraging answers abound.    

Episode # 099 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 March 2021 Length: 22 minutes Weather of the Mind #99 notes Einstein – Biography Review 3.16.21 In this pod I aim to provide a bit of a book review for Walter Isaacson’s Einstein. My 3rd Isaacson bio and he is a biographer that focuses on innovation. The cultural process and these transformative figures he chronicles… including Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, and Einstein. He tells a good story and you get a sense for both the person and the cultural milieu in which they find themselves.  This is all can ask for in a bio.  And Isaacson succeeds in these every time.  Surely there are always questions remaining, but to boil a complex and transformative life into 500 pages is actually pretty difficult. In this sense, I think Isaacson has a good sense of pacing, of density.  How far to explore a point before it is time to move on. If he has a weakness, it is the interpersonal complexity of families.  For example, Einstein’s son was near suicidal and in an institution for many years, and this was hardly explored in this book.   But again, a biographer has their lens which they tell the story.  And in terms of a general storytelling and a sense of the time and place, Isaacson does well. Why I encourage the reading of biographies Biographies are inherently intimate.  They provide an access to another, to this story of this fascinating character.  This true story.  You get to hear about what they were like as kids.  And how they evolved and how they remained the same.  How they thrived and where they failed.  How were they among family and friends?  How were they in the public space? But there is so much more…  insight into the culture of the time.  Things you would never know to look for you are bound to discover. As Isaacson says in his early pages, “his fascinating story, a testament to connection between creativity and freedom, reflects the triumphs and tumults of the modern era.” “Imaginative noncomformity was in the air: Picasso, Joyce, Freud, Stravinsky, Shoenberg….” - Isaacson But the biography is the canvas of someone’s life… and we all have a canvas So without further ado, let me share some quotes from the book that elucidate a few main themes of the book.  I hope that this allows a better insight into Einstein, but also I hope they entice you to pick up a biography. Music Encouragement Personality Mystery  (perhaps befriending the mystery) Music  Mom an accomplished pianist; pushed violin lessons for young Albert;  he would go on to love the violin and was a part of his character throughout his life, he loved to play for others and for himself “Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or faced a difficult challenge in his work, he would take refuge in music and it solved all his difficulties.” – son, Hans Albert Mozart his favorite “Music, nature and god became intermingled in him in a complex of feeling, a moral unity, the trace of which never vanished.” -biographer Moszowski   Encouragement -   feeding the gifts, the curiosity Dad and his uncle were engineering minded problem solvers who did a lot of studies in electricity, the exciting new phenomena of the time.  (Electricity was like the internet or the cell phone of the 1880s. At age 5 his epiphany and no image ripples out in a biography like this one does.  It would still ripple through him on his death bead 75 years later.   His Dad gave him a compass.  And the fact that it would respond to an invisible magnetic field just blew him away.  And lit a fascinating with fields… the last 30 years of life devoted to unified field theory.  That would aim to unify electrodynamic field and the gravity fields. And a local med student.  Einsteins are jewish, though not religious, but one of the customs was to have guests over for dinner once a week for shabbat.  But they did it on wed or Thursday night and a med student came o...

Episode # 98 Original Airdate: February 17, 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 30 minutes ((A real solid episode... much food for thought)) The key question I pose to you, the listener: Growing up, did your family have a weekly day of rest, of recharge?  Was it effective?  What were the best aspects of this day? In your life now, is there a weekly day of rest?  What is the ritual?  Is it working well? And looking forward, if you could build a ritual - what elements would you include - music? exercise? cooking? eating? reading? watching a movie? While this episode is practical in that it is meant to encourage an evaluation of our day of rest, It also drifts (wonderfully) to some deeper questions,  questions that are a relevant in contemporary social debate: how can we develop a nuanced relationship with human's past, human's old cultural institutions, and our collective human history? And of course, I also tell my own story of building a good 'day-of-rest-and-recharge' ritual. Tune in!  

Episode #097 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 28 January 2021 Length: 29 minutes Main topics: Two homework assignments: 1) In the trenches reflection on our times in the middle of winter of Corona II, and 2) design your own school, based on your experiences of your years of school.  If we were designing a school to help mold healthy well-rounded adults, what would the main subjects be? The Validator, Superhero of Emotional Validation  

Episode #096 Original Airdate: 31 December 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 25 minutes References: https://www.weatherofthemind.org/practical-skill-new-years-resolutions/

Episode #095 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 9 December 2020 Length: 24 What to make of these bizarre times we are living through... threats to democracy... corona times ... heading into a tough winter challenge.    

Episode #094 Original Airdate: Oct 30 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: Passages. Predictable Crises in Adult Life.  1976

Episode #93 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 October 2020 Length: 24 minutes Reference: "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" David Foster Wallace. From the book Consider the Lobster. 2006.  Originally published Aug 30, 1992.

Episode #092 Original Airdate: 1 October 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes   References: "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term planning and a willingness to reconsider long-term values.  On reflection we can recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of individual lives." -Jared Diamond, from the book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. December 2004. Ani Difranco, "Buildings and Bridges." Out of Range. July 26, 1994

Episode #091 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 17 September 2020 Length: 30 minutes   References "Rastaman Vibrations" Bob Marley.  30 April 1976. "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term planning and a willingness to reconsider long-term values.  On reflection we can recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of individual lives." -Jared Diamond, from the book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. December 2004.

Episode #090 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 10 September 2020 Length: 23 minutes References David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Episode # 089 Original Airdate: 27 August 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes  

Episode #088 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 20 August 2020 Length: 24 minutes Quotes: "A goal without a plan is just a wish." -Antoine de Saint Exupery "The majority of people don't want to plan.  They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for." -B.F. Skinner "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term planning and a willingness to reconsider long-term values.  On reflection we can recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of individual lives." -Jared Diamond, from the book, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."  -Earl Nightingale  

Episode #087 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 12 August 2020 Length: 19 minutes "Strive not to be a success, but to be of value." -Einstein "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." - Churchill "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou "Success is peace of mind which is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best." - John Wooden "Success consists in going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Churchill    

Episode 086 Original Airdate: 22 July 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 minutes   References: The Daily (NYTimes podcast) w Rick Steves, May 8 2020 The Daily (NYTimes podcast) On the Life of John Lewis, July 20 2020 NY Magazine. "Can Baseball Really Pull this off?" by Will Leitch. July 21 2020 NYTimes oped. "We Interrupt this Gloom to offer you... Hope" By Nicholas Kristof. July 16 2020

Episode #085 Original Airdate: 10 July 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 16 minutes References: "Forest Born of Fire," Wild Nature Institute.  Youtube.

Episode # 084 Original Airdate: 18 June 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 20 minutes Guest: Rachel Bush (rachelbushyoga.com)

Episode #83 Original Airdate: 11 June 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes References:  Kaplan, Davis.  "We need a Trick to Feel our Joys as Deeply as our Griefs"  Illustrated by Eleanor Davis. New York Times.  10 June 2020  

Episode #082 Original Airdate: 4 June 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes Audio Sample: Bill Withers "Lean on Me" 1972

Episode # 081 Original Airdate: May 27 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 minutes References: Fly Like an Eagle, Steve Miller Band, 1976 The Office (U.S) Season 6 Episode 6.  Oct 15, 2009 Time quotes: "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.  The second best time in now." -Chinese Proverb "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -Warren Buffett "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." -Antoine de Saint Exupery "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." -Marthe Troly-Curtin "Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real." -Cormac McCarthy

Episode #80 Original Airdate: 13 May 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 19 minutes  

Episode 079 Original Airdate: 4 May 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 19 minutes

Episode # 078 Original Airdate: April 16 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 25 minutes Samples: "Running Away," Bob Marley and the Wailers (1978) Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte (1790).  Met Opera Production, Mar 31, 2018 "The Wasteland," T.S. Eliot (1922)  

Episode # 077 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 3 April 2020 Length: 19 minutes Audio Sample: Bill Withers, Lean on Me. 1972. RIP. Reference: metopera.org

Episode #76 Original Airdate: 26 March 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 20 minutes Audio Samples: Centerfield by John Fogerty (1985); Gov. Cuomo Press Conference 22 March 2020

Episode # 075 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 19 March 2020 Length: 15 minutes    

Episode # 074 Original Airdate:  March 11 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 12 minutes

Episode #73 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: March 4, 2020 Length: 16 minutes Audio Sample: Orgachella, Buena Vista Social Club

Episode #72 Original Airdate: 26 February 2020 Length: 22 minutes Guest: Craig Roberts

Episode #71 Original Airdate: 19 February 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 9 minutes  

Episode #70 Original Airdate: February 12, 2020 Length: 22 minutes Guest: Craig Roberts Audio Clip: A Trio in Mahur; Traditional Persian Classical Music

Episode #69 Original Airdate: 5 February 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 11 minutes

Episode #068 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 29 January 2020 Length: 17 minutes

Episode #67 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 22 January 2020 Length: 15 minutes Samples: "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. 1914.

Episode # 066 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 15 January 2020 Length: 13 mintues Audio Sample: "Route 66" by The King Cole Trio (1946)

Episode # 065 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: January 8, 2020 Length: 16 minutes References: Carson, Rachel.  The Sense of Wonder.

Episode # 064 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 1 January 2020 Length: 22 minutes References: The I Ching - or Book of Changes.  Wilhelm/Baynes. 1950.

Episode 063 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 25 December 2019 Length: 9 minutes Audio Sample: Orgachella, Buena Vista Social Club

Episode 062 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: Dec 17 2019 Length: 10 minutes Sample: "This Little Light of Mine" by Odetta Holmes.  

Episode #061 Original Airdate: 11 December 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: Companions in Wonder, Editors Julie Dunlap and Stephen Kellert A Sense of Wonder, Editor Brian Doyle

Episode 060 Original Airdate: December 4 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 16 minutes Audio Sample: C.R.E.A.M. by Wu-Tang Clan (1993)

Episode # 059 Original Airdate: November 27, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 10 minutes  

Episode 058 Original Airdate: 20 November 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 13 minutes

Episode 057 Original Airdate: 13 November 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 13 minutes Audio Sample: Stick Figure, Weight of Sound  

Episode # 056 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 6 November 2019 Length: 17 minutes  

Episode #055 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: Oct 30, 2019 Length: 16 minutes Audio Sample: Whiskey Sun by Stick Figure

Episode #54 Original Airdate: October 23, 2019 Length: 16 minutes Audio Sample: Weight of Sound, Stick Figure

Episode 053 Original Airdate: Oct 16,  2019 References: Tony Paige clip, WFAN, September 2019 Audio clip: Stick Figure "Weight of Sound" Length: 11 minutes

Episode #052 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: Oct 9, 2019 Length: 13 minutes Audio Sample: 50 Cent, Candy Shop, 2003    

Episode 051 Original Airdate: Oct 2, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 16 minutes

Episode 050 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 25 September 2019 Length: 19 minutes References: 50 Cent, Candy Shop, 2005

Episode 049 Original Airdate: 18 September 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes References: Bergland, Christopher.  "Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises and Your Vagus Nerve." Psychologytoday.com Annen Waltz, Johann Strauss, 1852

Episode 048 Original Airdate: 11 September 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 14 minutes References: Annen Polka, Strauss, 1852

Episode 047 Original Airdate: Sept 4, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 13 minutes Reference: Silver Lining Playbook (2012)

Episode 46 Original Airdate: August 28, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: Books: The Story of Philosophy. Will Durant. An Ocean of Air. Gabrielle Walker. Audio: "My Life be Like" - Grits

Episode 045 Original Airdate: August 21, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 19 minutes Can the study of Biography be the foundational lesson to the Emotional Health Curriculum we need to build?   Biography Study Questions to Explore 1) who was this person as a child - what shaped them and what were they drawn to?  and away from?  in their early ages.  If much of who we are is set in motion in our first decade, how do we understand these years? Do the characters in these biographies accept their lot in life?  How does it shape them moving forward? 2) How is the transition from childhood to adulthood? 3) What are the blessings and the challenges that appear in a life?  How does one respond to these - these moments display true character? 4) how is the rudder on the boat?  Is the character guided by character traits - which ones?  Or is the character driven by goals - which ones?  And how does this pursuit unfold ? change? 5) How is the character supported by friends and family - and support them in kind?  How is the character alone and perhaps lonely?  How does one deal with this challenge? 6) Does the character seem emotinally well?  Where do they thrive and where do they struggle? 7) Hoes does the character accept the whole of their life - including their aging and their death? 8) What is their legacy?  their epilogue? their tombstone?

Episode #44 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 Minutes Song reference: Grits - My Life Be Like

Episode 043 Original Airdate: August 7, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 20 minutes How fundamental is our sense of mission?  Our sense of a meaningful niche in our world?  Is this the foundation of all emotional and spiritual health? References: Frankl, Viktor.  A Man's Search for Meaning. (1946) Unbreakable.  Movie starring Samuel L. Jackson.  (2000)

Episode #42 Original Airdate: July 31, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 16 minutes References: 49 Up (2005) ITV 56 Up (2012) ITV "Gone So Long" by the Good Intentions

WM 041 Vision Quest as Vacation- Part II of my interview with Tim Holmes Original Airdate: July 24th 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Guest: Tim Holmes In this episode we hear about the 3rd of Tim's voyages, his spiritual wanderings around the United States. Music Sample: Buena Vista Social Club

Episode 40 Original Airdate: July 17, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 32 minutes Guest: Tim Holmes Music Sample: Buena Vista Social Club In this interview, we explore the nature of spiritual wandering, as Tim recounts some of his vision quests, where he travels the country wide-eyed, open to insights and lessons.  

WM039 Original Airdate: July 10, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 18 minutes Notes: Tao Te Ching - Core text to Taoism Hua Hu Ching - Second Core text to Taoism India's 'All is Well' Approach to Life - Charukesi Ramadurai http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190708-indias-all-is-well-approach-to-life Goan Folk Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_-ydyPhus

Episode 038 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original airdate: July 3 2019 Length: 14 minutes References: Antonie de Saint-Exupery  "Generation to Generation"

Episode #37 Produced  by: Doug Krisch Length: 20 minutes References: Life of a Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke - by Ralph Freedman. Orgullecida - Buenva Vista Social Club.  

Episode #36 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 9 minutes References: Gibran, Kahlil.  The Prophet.  1923 Young, Robyn. Buffalo Dreams. 1990 Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Episode 35 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 12 June 2019 Length: 24 minutes References: Searls, Damion. The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and The Power of Seeing. 2017. Crown Publishing. Orgullecida. Buena Vista Social Club.  1997    

Episode #34 Original Airdate: June 5, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: 56 Up (2012) ITV "Gone So Long" by the Good Intentions

Episode 33 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: May 29, 2019 Length: 22 minutes Notes: Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America - A Cultural Biography. Knopf. 1995 Whitman, Walt.  Leaves of Grass.  1855. (Self-published. Original Printing 795 copies.) Audio reading of Song of Myself 

Episode 32 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: May 22 2019 Reference: 49 up (2005)

Episode 31 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original air date: May 15, 2019 Length: 18 minutes Notes: The Art of the Circus Minimum Wage and Mental Health Embracing One-ness Benefits Mental Health  

Episode 30 Original Airdate: May 8 2018 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 22 minutes References: 42 up

In this episode, I review the thought-provoking book, The Self-Driven Child by Stixrud and Johnson. Themes: Parenting in an age of anxiety and depression Episode 029 Original Airdate: May 1 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 24 minutes  

Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: April 24, 2019 Length: 20 minutes References: 35 Up

Episode 027 Original Airdate: April 17, 2019 Length: 19 minutes Produced by: Doug Krisch Audio Sample: SkyNews, London, England, Live stream April 15, 2019 Other references:  What the Notre Dame Fire Reveals about the Soul of France, New York Times, April 16, 2019    

Episode #26 Produced by Doug Krisch Featuring 28 up(1984) Granada Films Length: 24 minutes Themes: Foundation and Vocation; Education and Support along the way    

Original Airdate: April 3 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Guest: Elisa S. Keeler  elisamusic.com Length: 28 minutes

In this episode I explore the themes of Foundation and Vocation: Where we are from and where we are headed.  How does a strong or weak foundation affect our growth, our emotional health?  How does a clear vocation, or a lack thereof, affect the growth of the young adult?    These emerge as the major themes of the 3rd installment of the Up Series. Please join us. Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: March 27 2019 Length: 20 minutes References: 21 Up - link 28 Up - link Agenda for the weeks ahead: WM 025 Elisa S Keeler Conversation Part II - Music and Community Health WM 026 Up Series: 28 UP review and discussion WM 027 Book Club: The Self-Driven Child, Johnson and Stixrud WM 028 Up Series: 35 Up and 42 Up WM 029 Emotional Health in the News WM 030 Up Series: 49 Up and 56 Up

Produced by Doug Krisch Guest: Elisa S. Keeler Original Airdate: 3.20.19 (Spring!) Length: 37 minutes References and Notes: Soul of the Earth: Multicultural Songs for the Circle.  Elisa S. Keeler. (www.elisamusic.com) Documentary for next week's episode: 21 Up (1978)

Episode #022 Original Airdate: March 13, 2018 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 24 minutes Link to documentary: Episode One - 7 up,  Episode Two - 7 plus 7    

Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: March 6 2019 Length: 25 minutes References: RIP Mars Rover "Oppy" link Shane Healy - From an orphanage to the greatest show on earth link Four-day Work Week: Trial finds lower stress and increased productivity link Documentary Link - 7 plus 7 link    

Episode 020 Original Airdate: Feb 27 2019 Special Guest: L. Length: 20 minutes   In this episode we explore the first documentary in the Up Series, produced by Michael Apted for Grenada Television. (1964) Seven Up video link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LQZpiSfESE Up_series_cheat_sheet

Introduction to the "Seven Up" Documentary (1964) Original Airdate: Feb 20, 2019 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 18  minutes Link to Seven Up Documentary

Original Airdate: 13 February 2018 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 15 minutes Audio Sample - Everything I Am - Kanye West (Instrumental)         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWRCeh9GsHA BBC Seven Up - (**Discussion Feb 27th**)         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LQZpiSfESE&t=143s Link up! (still sort of under construction) Twitter   https://twitter.com/weather_mind Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/weatherofthemind/

Original Airdate: Feb 6 2019Produced by: Doug KrischDedicated to: Keith HernandezLength: 22 minutesAudio Samples: The Littlest Birds by The Be Good Tanyas (2000), Masquerade Waltz by Khatchaturian (1941), Seinfeld Season 3 Episode 17 (1992)

This week I feature an inspiring poem and musical piece.  One written in Indiana in the 1920's and one written in Moscow in 1941. Original air date: 1.29.19Length: 16 minutesNotes: Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, Masquerade Waltz by Aram Khachaturian

You know that dread that we all feel sometime?  Perhaps there is great wisdom there if we can learn to listen. Featuring: Adrienne HuffmanProduced by: Doug KrischOriginal Airdate: 1.23.19Music Sample: Travellin' Man by Mos DefBook Reference: Divine Openings, Lola Jones

Practical Skill: Keeping a Notebook Theme: Notebook as Tool of Mental Digestion Produced by: Doug KrischOriginal Airdate: 1.16.19Length: 19 minutes Song Sample: Blue Skies by Willie Nelson

A conversation with Bob Nape, Owner of Solar is Hot in Ithaca, New York.  Bob is a life-long athlete and a true community-minded guy.   Produced by Doug KrischOriginal Airdate: 1.9.19Length: 26 minutesMusic Samples: Blue Skies by Willie Nelson (1978)Age of Aquarius by The 5th Dimension (1969)  

What a strange day January 2nd is.  The whole first week or two of a year seems to have this post-60s vibe, or so I imagine it. This episode is like a choose your own adventure.  I'll help you think of a good theme song to start your new year.  Produced by: Doug KrischOriginal airdate: January 2, 2019Length: 12 minutesMusic Samples: Wear your love like heaven - Donovan  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmruh9tKxMTrouble - Cat Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tRB7-aBr8Simpsons Episode 13, Season 16

Episode 11Original Air date: 12.26.18Produced by Doug KrischLength: 15 minutesSong Sample: Blue Skies by Willie NelsonIn this episode, we dive into practical skills, starting with setting New Year's Resolutions that work.  In this podcast I break it down into six categories:  sleep, water, exercise, diet, relationships, and spirit. And then we explore how to keep these resolutions moving from week to week for all of 2019. 

Episode 10Originally air date: 12.19.18 Two parts: A reflection on managing anger when one's car breaks down. And a tribute to Penny Marshall and some of her projects. Notes: Laverne and Shirley - "Making our Dreams Come True" - Theme Song by Cyndi Greccohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8_df1R8 Laverne and Shirley - Season 3, Episode 11 - Take my Plants - Please!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFDFyswS2Ww