Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Part Of This Garden Is The Real World     I dreamed of reality: what a relief to wake up. Stanislaw Lec            

Morning. Wisdom Is At The Window         "Approfondissement"   is a French word that means "playing easily in the deep." Tom Robbins                

The Human And Inhuman Condition With Bonus Yelling The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' Robin Williams              

Talking It Over, Getting It Across     From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri  

Glimpses And Highlights Meet On A Train     There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge. Walter Murch 

This Instead      Few people have the imagination for reality.  Goethe          

From The Funny To The Very Serious     I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning. Margaret Atwood