Common Thread

Discover how staying in the ebb and flow of following your thread is not only what life is about but also, how to become a stabilizing force of nature.  Show notes: Poems:   Keeping Quiet, by Pablo Neruda: https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=2298 Being Fearless is So Relaxing, by Wade Hubbard, is private. Books:  The Way Life Works, by Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson:   https://www.amazon....

Follow your thread into the 4 x 4 UNKNOWN and reemerge a world where we all fit in.   The Dao De Jing: Laozi’s Book of Life; A New Translation From the Ancient Chinese, Based on the Latest Archeological Discoveries, by J.H. Haung: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dao-de-jing-laozi-s-book-of-life-j-h-huang/19630246?ean=9780063135857&next=t   Rainer Maria Rilke poems A Walk: https://allpoetry.co...

The first episode of season three of the podcast Common Thread introduces the topic of conversation for the season. I am curious about what we are responding to when it is an innate desire to follow the thread of what is most important to us on a human and heart level. Not only is this inner guided. The more you respond the more you know , without being told, all-is-one. This is not a benign conce...

Inga-Mette (IM) Stenseth believes creativity is a human life-force. Her life moves to the rhythm of intersecting fields such as the fashion industry, technology, economics, culture, the Alexandria Library in Egypt, climate education, and creative problem solving. Each unique area of interest expands beyond its own objectives when viewed a catalyst to a deeper appreciation for life and is worth pro...

Shauna gives us a heart-warming compass of joy. “We are so ingrained with shoulds we no longer hear our inner voice.” For many of us the idea of having more joy is a fearful thought. Why? It doesn’t measure up to the many unrealistic standards which we hold ourselves to. Shauna supports neuro diverse women, who struggle with acceptance more than others, but her reflections on what is most importan...

Kathy learned the rules of economics but through the lens of Earth. Her thread is to remember ourselves to the garden in her lifetime. Kathy’s background covers the economics of the environment; sustainable forestry; fishing; populations; and Superfund Cleanup. What is most important to Kathy is to cultivate awareness we are members of this earthy paradise. If we loosen our boundaries we may disco...

The “key” is to see, hear, and value the human thread which connects us with others and the natural world. Caring about and for relationships reflects a uniquely feminine concern like hierarchical systems tend to be masculine. Social pioneer and mother of three, Tina Shattuck, weaves a compelling story how she followed her impulse and thread to create a framework and container for women. “The only...

Sheila’s question: Is the world ready for peace inspired the theme for season 2 of the podcast. She turns a proclamation into a personal question when she observes, there is no condition that we face personally which isn’t also the human condition. The common human thread could be a vital force wanting to live life through us! Our unique response, therefore, is on behalf of others. “Your depths ar...

Renée is a farmer and artist who intuits we are Nature . Her assemblages of natural objects symbolically carry her hidden story out into the open. Its theme belongs to a special category when a definitive direction and goal are unknown. If you are Nature, then your life is ever evolving into something new. Small beings are those whose invisible work weaves the common thread of mutual sustainabilit...

Tess takes an honest look at what is most important to her and discovered it is not a dream-job but a realm where we all meet . She was sexually abused by her grandfather and when her mother would not listen, she made her way in the world alone. She refused to become bitter and instead became a writer and filmmaker. When a close acquaintance was in the hospital dying of COVID-19 she transformed mo...

We need the experiences of spaciousness and feeling good about ourselves before we can become who we truly are. This is not pie-in-the-sky advice from someone who has lived through hell and kept going. Petia shares her personal journey and how she combines her spiritual and financial bottom lines without losing the thread of her core values. Her advice: When you honor your deeper truth—unapologeti...

Singer songwriter, Joseph Panzetta, embraces vulnerability as part of his creative process. Showing kindness exposes the fragility and beauty of our relationships. It is how to experience connections, hear the unsung song, and trust the vibration of kindness to take us home to a world where we all feel we belong—to each other.

Michelle teaches the Melt Method at Core Centric Training on Vashon Island in Washington. Our body’s inner web of life, called the facia, is also what connects people to each other and humans to the natural world. The thread of what is most important to Michelle is caregiving. When we care for our facia, Michelle tells us, we are effectively healing others and the environment. She meets us where w...

What is most important to Alison Goldwyn is knowing and growing her true nature with love and caring and inspiring and nurturing this in others.  Alison asks the question: Why must catastrophe be humanity's ultimate legacy in bringing us together?  She intimately experiences the need for a world-story which features the creative human spirit.  Alison trusted her own creative impulse to weave...

If stones could speak is never a question for Joshua Barwick. For 22 years he has worked with stones in creating walls, walkways, and architectural structures. Suzanne and Josh have a lively  conversation about a macro wisdom and truth that is reflected in the micro processes of drywalling and weaving tapestries.  Orchestrating stones and threads share the same common thread of a concerns about re...

During a time when there is so much suffering the common thread of love reveals its vital spirit of renewal. Reverend Carla Pryne and podcast host, Suzanne Hubbard, discuss the challenges of navigating a very new reality which was brought about by a pandemic and all the social, economic, and climate change related crises that its devastation has exposed.  The common human thread is a constant remi...

What is most important to Travis is the climate crisis. It is a huge problem we all feel helpless to stop its far reaching effects. The conversation about the common human thread, however, begins to reveal unexpected answers. Travis reflects on the four questions: What is most important to me? Why is it vital I respond? What have been the challenges when I put this purpose first? What wisdom can I...

Discover answers to a deeply divided world and climate change hidden in our answers to: What is most important to me? Why is it vital I respond? What have been the challenges when I put this purpose first? What wisdom can I share from my experiences? Podcast host, Suzanne Hubbard, will answer these questions. Her reflections will begin a conversation about why a human and intimate response to the...