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Walking Alongside: PerspectivesGarbage - Not the BandHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Not what you might normally think would make for fascinating discussion, although there are people who actually study garbage...but this is not an archeological jaunt through the refuse of centuries or even millenia past - no - it's a look at the times we are in. Times that are rife with examples of all the myriad types of garbage that we contend with on an all too regular basis. And how perhaps a simple, and yet very complicated solution could help us out from under the weight of it...2025-05-1515 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe Second ComingHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!This is a first - the only real indication of what we were going to talk about was the fact that friend and returning guest, Jeremy Peressini, said that we needed to use the Yeats poem, the Second Coming as the jumping off point. So that's what we did and the rest, as they say, just came out of that. It's all over the map - the geopolitical map that is, and for those of you who have listened to previous episodes...well...the cards are revealed in this episode...2025-04-2940 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesIt's Up to Us to Change The WorldHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!I was going to use all kinds of cool and heroic music for this...but somehow I got lost in the message and David and Tina's songs completely escaped the sieve that is my mind these days. But it's okay. I also almost talked myself out of this episode because I thought maybe it's too controversial, too political. But if not now then when? Now is the time for everyone to take a long, hard look around and decide if this is the world that we want to live in...2025-04-1315 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesTwo People Walk Into a Guitar Store...Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Okay - so heads up folks, this is a long one. Feel free to skip to 1:26:567 if you want to get into the heart of this absolutely delightful romp all over the map with my guest Calvin Simonson, guitar hero/sound "engineer"/music aficionado and all around great guy. While knowing one another for all of 5 minutes prior to this show, we manage to hit all the major themes of personal growth, dropping out of school, musical influences, ghost stories, X-files, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Nickleback, Charlie XCX, why learning how...2025-04-011h 02Walking Alongside: PerspectivesWhat Are You Looking Forward To?Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!The actual title of this was going to be, "The Fun and Folly of Having Something to Look Forward To" but that seemed too long. Which is not surprising considering I often use a million words when 12 will do...but the point of this episode is to look at what it is that we are or can look forward to in "these times" *cue ominous music here. Do we look forward to things, plan to do things, go places or what have you when we don't know from o...2025-03-1519 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesJoy and Movement - Let's Get PhysicalHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!So from Prince to Olivia Newton-John's iconic song, which only upon listening to it in preparation for this episode did the double entendre (which is not at all subtle) hit me smack in the face. But it's a suitable anthem for a look once again at joy this time in the context of movement, in the variety of ways that can be defined. It looks at "exercise" and challenge and doing hard things and showing up and how that all comes together to create opportunities for joy. In a time...2025-03-0116 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesPrince Was Right All Along!Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!It took some doing to come up with a follow-up topic to my conversation with my pen pal, but then it struck me as there were all these signs pointing me in a particular direction. What do we control - or perhaps more importantly and significantly, what do we think we can control? Where in our lives can we affect change that will improve how we feel, interact or even function in a world that seems at best cataclysmic and at work pre-apocalyptic...Exaggeration? Maybe, but it FEELS kind of...2025-02-1618 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesJoy and Podcasting and Other Stuff - with my Pen PalHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!So this somehow ended up becoming a bit of a follow-up episode to my last conversation (with myself) only this time, I get to talk about stuff with my Pen Pal, Todd, who joins me from Portland. We talk joy, podcasts (making and listening and stats and such) and how important it is to make life decisions based on your path, not someone else's, and how finding that path takes effort and commitment. In order for there not to be too many spoilers, I'll leave it at that. I hope...2025-02-0147 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesWhat I Do and Do Not Know (For Sure) or OtherwiseHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!I did an episode a while ago on things I don't understand, and this is kind of a continuation on that, with an emphasis on learning and growing and being opening to change and all the things that I think make us better people. I'm not talking about just deep and meaningful things, thought some certainly are more important to me than others, and there are some downright silly things, that are kind of forehead slapping moments. When was the last time you thought about the stuff that...2025-01-1918 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe Name Game -or- What's In A Name?Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Happy New Year!!! How is it already 2025? Hope it's going well so far, and here's a question for you...Have you ever thought about your name? Or pondered why movie star's names are what they are? Well, so have we! Daphne and I discourse on the sometimes thorny topic of names and why it matters, especially these days as people express themselves in different ways than before, and who the "folks in the biz" are who changed their names. Hopefully it reminds you of all the people that we didn't...2025-01-0427 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesPolyvagal What Now? How to Regulate Ourselves in a Dysregulated WorldHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Don't let the title scare you! If you have ever wondered why you are behaving the way you are, or why you just can't seem to make yourself do...well...anything, it might be because your body is trying to tell you something. Have you been dealing with a lot for seemingly ever? That's a clue. Did you recently get in a car crash or fall and hit your head and you've been feeling off and can't quite get it together? That's a clue. Join me in a fascinating conversation...2024-12-1847 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe ARTS: Should NOT be OptionalHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!When you think about the arts, it's likely that your thoughts go to museums - the Louvre (of course) or our own AGA or maybe things like the symphony or possibly and hopefully local theatre like the Citadel or even Broadway. But do you think about who the people are who make the art or the music or write or act in the plays? Why not? Is it because it's this abstract concept because we're too busy thinking about practical things like sensible educations and careers with prospects for promotions...2024-11-1834 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe Benefits of Stress Leave and the Barriers to Getting ThereHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!When you think about your mental health (and I hope you do) do you consider that most of the time we might actually be taking it for granted? That we assume we're going to wake up every morning and be okay or fine or good to go, or whatever phrase pops automatically out of our mouths. But what happens when slowly, insidiously there is a gradual shift that isn't super obvious but one day smacks you in the head and you realize, wait a minute why do I feel so...2024-11-0220 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesHow Dumpster Fires Build ResilienceHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy (well, maybe my WORST enemy) what my friend Jeremy has had to endure, deal with and overcome over the last almost 2 years. In this episode we talk about what happens when life takes a dramatic and unexpected left turn, what a person can do to prepare themselves for the those improbable situations and what the lessons are that will help to move us forward or in a completely different direction. There is a crazy 'crime drama' pod scene and some comic relief as...2024-10-1947 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesWho Doesn't Like Music?Have thoughts or ideas? Please share here!This is the third and final installment of our series on all things music and we cover so many things. Lyrics, musicality, motifs, feelings and life experiences and all the things that music is and influences. We talk about a wide range of artists and what they mean to us or how they have affected us, and as usual there are some interesting takes. Whether or not you agree or disagree, we hope that you will come to appreciate whatever it is that you love to listen to with a...2024-10-0337 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe BeatlesHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Well - here we are with our second installment of our series on music, and this time we are going head to head discussing the Beatles. It is in my opinion, one of the most polarizing bands, for reasons we will get into in this episode. There are some more clips from songs you will likely know well, at least recognize, and if you're like most people either love or hate. Daphne shares their amazing insights into a band that has for me, always been a bit problematic. Regardless of...2024-09-1644 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesDavid Bowie - The Man, the Music, the MoviesHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!In this episode - I have a special guest/cohost! None other than my kiddo Daphne. Audiophile in the making, they are joining me in a three part series where we look at music and what it means to us, what we think about it, and what we actually like about it. In this first installment, we talk all things David Bowie - well maybe not ALL things. But we do consider a number of his albums, some classic and slightly more obscure songs, and ponder his movies - for...2024-09-0124 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesOut of the Ashes - Creativity and InspirationHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Sometimes things happen that seem on the surface to be tragic or difficult or challenging and sometimes they are some or all of those things. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. But so to is creativity and inspiration sometimes either the result of those hard times. This is a short, fast and furious look at some recent events that have cemented for me the idea that there is always something good that can come out of dark times, and that the light that is creativity and...2024-08-2709 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesThe Perspective Changing Power of TravelHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!When you travel - there are so many things that could happen. Being on a cruise ship, which is really more like being on location than truly travelling, or going to a resort, which while ticking the boxes of "getting away from it, having some downtime and relaxing" doesn't really allow for a true experience of wherever you are. Truly travelling provides so many opportunities to live like the locals. To be able to see things on the beaten path and off. To let go of ideas that might have...2024-08-0517 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesFriendshipHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!Friends - we hopefully all have 'em. We need to have those people in our lives that keep us grounded, call us out on our BS and are there when things hit the fan. Whether near or far, old or new, casual or close, friends are the glue that keep our humanity together. In this episode I consider the types of friends we have, how we can make them and how they make our lives better. Thanks Judy Garland and Jonny Mercer for the inspiration. And thanks everyone out there w...2024-06-2515 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesCustomer Service - The Spoonful of SugarHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!If you think that you customer service is a thing of the past, then I would challenge you to pay more attention to not only what you bring to the interaction, but what the people that you are interacting with are dealing with and how if you look a little deeper, there are probably lots of examples of people doing a great job, in potentially the weirdest or least expected of places. If you would like to learn more about the history of the mammography equipment here's a...2024-06-0718 minWalking Alongside: PerspectivesA Moral ObligationHave thoughts or ideas? Please share here!It's not about religion - so don't be put off by the title. I gave up church during the pandemic...long story. But I still believe that there is an inherent responsibility that all people have regardless of any spiritual affiliation or lack thereof. So when people who by virtue of a position they find themselves in, don't abide by the idea of doing right by people, it makes me...well...cross. So this is me sharing my indignation sparked by a bad move (in my opinion) by one of...2024-05-1712 min