Awake at the Wheel with Jonathan Fields

Awake at the Wheel with Jonathan Fields

Don't try to be good, be true.

Wake-Up Call #25

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Jonathan Fields
Oct 06, 2024
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4:30am. I’m not sleeping.

For years, people have told me they love listening to the Good Life Project podcast.

“I learn so much, your voice is so soothing…it just puts me right to sleep.”

Always wonder how to respond to that.

My version is the lovely and learned insight teacher, Tara Brach, who I’ve had the great pleasure of interviewing. So alive with kindness and wisdom.

But, when I listen to her podcast, I learn a bit, then I’m out. Like Tylenol PM with a lesson (sorry Tara, love you!).

So, I decide to listen to Tara's recent interview with Colorado poet,

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
, hoping it'll put me back to sleep. It's a moving conversation, rooted in an exploration of grief. Rosemerry reads from her new book of poems, The Unfolding.

Before she get there, she shares a bit about her impulse toward poetry, why she writes and shares a poem a day, and has for many years. The practice began in 2006 as a dare from a friend. Write a poem a day for 30 days, then send it to two friends who would do the same. It con…

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