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With Carter busy elsewhere, teZa continues with Part 3 of narrating/describing her visionary artbook "We Are One." Previous episodes present the introduction (Part 1) and beginning images (Part 2). Artist reads, and writer interprets the vibrant visual images in a calming bedtime-story fashion, both roles played by the book's author, teZa Lord. This special ZLORD audio book presentation of We Are...

Hello from teZa! Here, I continue narrating my own visionary artbook that was published several years ago. In the previous podcast I read "We Are One"'s short introduction to this linen-bound, 83-pages of vision n' verse, documenting my  true experiences of feeling the interconnectedness with all that is. I thought, since our podcast fans seem to love our quirky offerings, this to be an interestin...

This episode begins something new here on ZLORD podcast. In between our usual conversations, either with cohosts teZa and Carter Lord, or with a special guest, teZa will be reading and "interpreting" visual images of books she has published. This is something that has been asked for by many of our listeners. It's very soothing to be read to, and we hope you enjoy this special way of receiving an a...

In this insightful episode, Dr. Deeh (Dorothy) Israel starts us off remembering that this day of our recording, August 28, happens to be the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's giving his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln memorial during the March on Washington, attended by hundreds of thousands! On this day, 57 years ago, a sea of people of all colors and cultures came together in c...

This week's subject might be tough for lots of folks. People who have issues surrounding death might want to skip this episode. Because we, teZa and Carter Lord look compassionately deep inside the really hard letting-go involved with death, both by the person "doing the dying" and the loved ones who are left behind to grieve. During this time of Covid, death is on everyone's mind more than usual....

Going solo teZa focuses on gratitude in as many ways as colors shimmer in an expansive rainbow. Offering hope and love as the positive "charges" our world needs in order to spiritually transform, she reveals some pretty remarkable analogies from her own life experiences. Things Pretty Freaking Incredible, actually! Witnessing Death, Witnessing Space Ships, for teasers. Without her more reserved co...

Feisty and energized, the two Lords of ZLORD, teZa and Carter are at it again, on their own. In between back-to-back sessions with their special guest of two previous podcasts -- in which she offers the world her unique worldview, Dr. Dorothy Israel will return to continue offering us a unique oral history of her life as, first, a Black girl in Harlem, then as a Black mental health and social work...

Dr. Dorothy (Deeh) Israel has returned to ZLORD podcast! We welcome her reflections, memories, insights and just good old-fashioned darn good stories about a side of life we rarely hear firsthand: What it's like growing up as a self-proclaimed "colored girl" in an achingly prejudiced America of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Deeh's experiences are worthy turning over our mic (hand-held by teZa for this an...

This week we take a look, Carter and I, teZa Lord, at a golden opportunity made more available, during the disruption of "normal life" due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many folks know their inner Self. But some keep their minds too busy, and their bodies too, to explore the spiritual side of everyone's human nature. The so-called sacred Inner Voice is only heard when a person decides they want to kno...

Dr. Dorthy Israel, our good friend "Deeh" agreed to share with Carter and me the real inside truth she's experienced throughout her long life, regarding the often misrepresented, or fragmented history of what it's like "Being Black in Modern America." Her story spans almost an entire century! Deeh met Eleanor Roosevelt when she was a young woman when the First Lady came to visit her Harlem school,...

Carter returns as teZa and he talk about how challenging it is to maintain their connection to the here and NOW, the principle subject discussed, no matter what "outer circumstances" are happening to the cohosts. Staying calm and peacefully accepting of the NOW has been harder, especially since the Covid pandemic has struck such a dent in the fabric of the blended family of humankind. Carter admit...

teZa solo discusses the benefits of a regular meditation practice, responding to a question from a listener. Send in any comments, suggestions, questions to ZLORDpodcast@gmail.com so she and Carter can interact with all you lovely people! Sending kindness, protection, and good health to all in these scary times. Carter will be back next podcast, and we plan on having our very first guest, via Zoom...

Last podcast it was teZa's solo turn, explaining racism through her eyes. Check out "Am I a Racist" if you wish. This week it's Carter's turn to share his deepest thoughts about what each of us can do to guarantee the end of racism. Both the Lords of ZLORD podcast agree: Love is the answer that will heal this riff, and every other challenge presented to humankind. One challenge at a time, uncondit...

teZa, alone--and by necessity nakedly honest--asks herself. She urges all listeners to do the same.

Carter and teZa Lord, the co-hosts of ZLORD discuss the many ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting our world. In every way possible, that's how. The key to maintaining calm and a measure of happiness during this stressful time is to remember to keep our attention focused on what's right before us. Staying centered in the NOW is the key to developing and maintaining inner peace, no matte...

Solo host this time while Carter's busy elsewhere, teZa Lord shares some personal insights about combating times of fear. The choice is always ours: opening to better, happier, more elevated heights ... or not. The deepest, most satisfying adventure of all awaits us within. Fact: The entrance to the inner adventure is easy, and always your choice. Choose to embrace joy or ... well ... it's not a p...

Carter and teZa, the co-hosts of ZLORD, demonstrate how, in the course of their 3-decade long partnership, they arrive peacefully to accepting each other's opinions, even while discussing very volatile topics. In this case ... the subject is how to be cool and calm during the stress of the Covid pandemic. Funny, eh? That such a basic desire, which every person alive shares, deep down inside themse...

Along the same note of last week's conversation about "Cooperation," Carter and teZa Lord, the co-hosts of ZLORD, elaborate how something that seems not as "spiritual" as cooperating is, in actuality, among life's highest truths. For not only a peaceful society, but a peaceful life for each individual. Certainly cooperation is the first step toward living a truly spiritual life instead of a self-c...

Already it's 7 weeks in isolation! We have plenty to do so Carter and I are not feeling at all "out of sorts," we're blessed in that way. Maybe the six-months of car-and-tent camping (the reason we started podcasting, to document our trip) was a "rehearsal" for the self-imposed restrictions we're all now experiencing. Our talk's subject this week is how a spiritual life starts. Cooperation seems a...

While taking a walk in their neighborhood, teZa and Carter discuss how the sudden shift the entire world has been forced to take, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the abrupt halt to "normal life," has changed them, personally. Along the way they run into (of all things!) a wish-fulfilling tree, at exactly the moment they're talking about how art, "Being Creative," plays such an important role in h...

The Lords discuss the essence of why they are podcasting. In the beginning, back in June 2019 it was to document their 6-month car-and-tent camping trip, to explore Oneness through their closeness with Nature, to the exclusion of everyday pressures, demands, activities. Now, like the rest of the world, Covid-19 has changed everything. Now the couple is sharing what they think with the world in a m...

Holed-up for the 4th week, as many others are also, teZa and Carter discuss how they're determined to find joy out of a situation that some might only see as suffering. Subjects arise as diverse as News from Washington state about composting bodies being the best solution of burial for the planet's environment; keeping our healthy bodies fit with planned meals and regular exercise; how a meditatio...

The Lords, teZa and Carter start off somewhat awkwardly, bumbling around trying to address a BIG issue by bringing it down to the personal level. Labels aren't useful, they quickly determine. Attempting to discuss the needed sacrifices asked by all society during this unprecedented social and economic shutdown due to the worldwide spread of the Coronavirus, they start by talking about the sacrific...

During this challenging time of enforced social restriction and encouraged shelter-in-place, teZa and Carter discuss how they manage to stay content. They share ways in which others who might be experiencing worry, anxiety, fear or other strong emotions can find inner peace, as they are committed to. It takes work! It's not always easy to be happy, joyous, free within one's own Self. But with effo...

So quickly, the world has changed! We're right in the middle of a global pandemic with the spread of Covid-19 now hitting our small town in Florida. teZa and Carter Lord, co-hosts of ZLORD, who started this podcast to document their nomadic travels, are now self-isolating themselves in their own home, hunkered down for the duration of this virus-tsunami about to hurl over them. They discuss how sw...