Living in a Body

Hi. Welcome! Today I’m starting a multi-part series called Autobiography. I enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoy listening. Please click PLAY above for the full experience. (13 min listen) Autobiography- Part 1 They call me Hal, but my real name is Harold. I was named after my dad who was named after his dad. That makes me the third - Harold Walker lll -- no middle name. When I was a kid, I was al...

On Oct 31, I recorded this in one take into the microphone with no edits. I hope you’ll take some time to slow down and listen. (17 minutes). The full transcript is below, but the audio is what I suggest. ❤️ Hal. Big thanks to Cameron Mack for the photos. Good News Hey, we're back. My name is Hal, and this is the “Living in a Body” podcast. For those of you are that are new, I'm Hal Walker. They c...

On Oct 20, I recorded this in one take into the microphone with no edits. I hope you’ll take some time to slow down and listen. (28 minutes). Thank you. ❤️ Hal Keep it Light Hello, friends. Hello, loves. Hi beauty. Hi, mom, dad, brothers and sisters. Hi, Hallie. Hi, everybody. Hi nieces and nephews, all my cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents, all the ancestors. Hello, Goddess Lover, Earth M...

Wildflower Stories This Spring, I bought two packets of flower seeds off the seed rack at the Kent Natural Foods Co-op. With a vision of adding to my wildflower mix, I chose the giant purple zinnias and the bronze petaled sunflowers. A few weeks after planting the seeds, when the sunflower sprouts were just about 8 inches tall, a fat groundhog that lives behind my garage climbed up and over the fe...

My life these days is that of a monk. Cloistered and terrorized, I'm a fledgling monk of the Taoist-leaning Quaker variety. Believe it or not, I'm the only one in this particular local order. With the help of a few trusted guides and a robust 12 step program of recovery, I'm sort of blazing the path as I go. When I'm not desperately trying to figure a way to get myself out of this situation, I bre...

Hi. Thank you for your patience as my pace for producing these episodes has slowed. I appreciate you. Please press PLAY above to hear the podcast version of this episode. Enjoy. The Fleeting Moment My ever changing wildflower garden is turning into a jungle. The rain storms of the last week hit hard and left some of the more elegant petals mangled and disfigured. The early June days of delicate po...

In an age of constant movement , nothing is more urgent than sitting still. ~ Pico Iyer Urgent: Do Nothing The highlight of my days this week has been wheeling out to the old vegetable garden which I converted into an Ohio wildflower garden earlier this year. The explosion of blooms is just beginning. I love to sit in my wheelchair and gaze over the short fence at all the delicate shapes and the v...

The Wedding Last Saturday afternoon, my daughter Hallie married her college sweetheart, Andy Donnelly. June 15, 2024 was truly one the most beautiful and memorable days of my life. The wedding was a blue skies, sunshine, smooth-running, reasonably-budgeted, love-filled festival of family and friends all packed together in a perfect 78 degree day on the Hines Hill Campus in the Cuyahoga Valley Nati...

Hi. I couldn’t resist the temptation to make episode 88 all about my song, “ My State, Ohio - the 88 Counties.” Click PLAY above to hear the podcast version of this episode. Click the links below to hear the song. Enjoy. Hal My State, Ohio I've had several significant accomplishments in my life. And one of them was a song that I wrote back in 2003. A song that incorporates the 88 counties of Ohio....

Hi. Welcome. Press PLAY above and please share this with a friend. ❤️ Hal The Front Row For about 10 years before the pandemic, I was the host of a live music venue in Kent called the Cuyahoga River Concert Series. It was in the summer of 2011 that I got a call from a Michigan folk singer who’d recently moved into town. As the story goes, Matt Watroba had heard from several trustworthy sources tha...

Hi. Welcome. Press the PLAY button above or read the full transcription below. Enjoy. ❤️ H Best Day Ever I've got a friend named Annette who's got a pretty awesome and amazing attitude about life. Just to give you a little taste of the kind of person Annette is… she went on a trip recently. She sent me a letter and part of the letter says, “to me, all the travels in the world could bring me no mor...

Press the PLAY button above or read the full transcription below. Enjoy. ❤️ H Slow Down Hi. I'm Hal. This is the “Living in a Body” podcast. Welcome. I'm glad you're here. Today is episode 85. Can you believe it? You better go back and listen to the first 84 of ‘em before you listen to this one. (lol) Anyway, 85. It's called “Slow Down.” And it goes something like this… You didn't ask for my advic...

Hi. I’m a day late, but here I am. This is the “Living in a Body” Podcast. Press the PLAY button above or read the full transcription below. Enjoy. ❤️ H No Escape Hi, I'm Hal. This is the “Living in a Body” Podcast. I'm feeling pretty weak, pretty out of breath. But I'm wanting to make this Episode. It’s Episode 84. I don't even know what I'm going to say, but I'm gonna call it “ No Escape… So wha...

Hi. Welcome to “Living in a Body.” Please press the PLAY button above to listen to the recommended podcast version of this publication. Enjoy. H BTW… “Quiet Time with Hal” is ongoing… Sunday afternoons at 4:00 EST on Zoom. All are welcome to share 20 minutes of quiet. Join here: Zoom Invite Link In-person (Kent, Ohio)— Schedule one on one Body Sounds In every publication with the title “Living in...

Hi. I’m Hal. Welcome to Living in a Body. This episode was produced with the intention of being consumed as a podcast. I hope you’ll click the PLAY button above to listen. You’ll find the full transcription below. Enjoy. H The Money Situation I want to talk about money, but I'm scared. I keep thinking, “ You can't say that, Hal . You can't tell them that.” I want to talk about my relationship with...

Hi. I’m Hal. Welcome. To listen to the recommended podcast version of this publication, tap that PLAY button above. Enjoy. BTW… “Quiet Time with Hal” is ongoing… Click here for more info Sunday afternoons at 4:00 EST on Zoom. All are welcome to share 20 minutes of quiet. Join here: Zoom Invite Link In-person (Kent, Ohio)— Schedule one on one Water, Color and Letting Go of Control The story begins...

Hi. I’m Hal. I’m glad you’re here. Wishing a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear sister Caroline. Please click the PLAY button above to hear the recommended PODCAST version of this episode. (15 min) Enjoy. ❤️ H Bad Words and a Broken Moral Compass Somewhere along the line, my moral compass got broke. And I'm gonna let you in on a little bit of that today. But first, I want to talk about the subheading for l...

Hi. I’m Hal. To listen to the podcast version of this episode, please click PLAY above. I hope you enjoy. Big ❤️ and thanks to Natalie Mead for her help formatting the last couple posts. Quiet Time with Hal is ongoing… Click here for more info Sunday afternoons at 4:00 EST on Zoom. All are welcome to share 20 minutes of quiet. Join here: Zoom Invite Link In-person - sit quietly with Hal in Kent, O...

Hi. I’m Hal. To listen to the podcast version of this episode, press the PLAY button above. Thanks for being here. Quiet Time with Hal is ongoing… Click here for more info Sunday afternoons at 4:00 EST on Zoom. All are welcome to share 20 minutes of quiet. Join here: Zoom Invite Link In-person (Kent, Ohio)— Schedule one on one Birthday Banter Hey, it’s Hal. This is the Living in a Body Podcast. To...

Hi. Living with severe ME/CFS, the thing that I get to practice more than ever these days is sitting quietly and doing nothing. Currently, I'm in search of people who would like to spend 20-30 minutes of "Quiet Time" with me. This is your opportunity to slow down, breathe, listen, ponder, reflect and experience the calming effects of quiet. Please sign up to sit with me in silence. No Sign Up Nece...

Hi. I’m Hal. Welcome to Living in a Body. This is a very special episode today. Natalie Mead from Oops, My Brain and I have exchanged a few letters (via email) and we’re publishing them today. Press PLAY above to listen to the podcast version of this episode. And click below to check out Natalie’s Substack. Enjoy. Nat and Hal Hi Natalie. My name's Hal Walker. I read your recent note seeking collab...

Hi. Welcome to “Living in a Body.” Thank you for being here. I appreciate you. Listen to the podcast version of this episode be pressing PLAY above. Enjoy. When you’re done reading, please leave a comment. I love your comments. ❤️ Hal A Whole New Hal I'm trying to make sense of this new life -- this life of perpetual rest, this life of moving from one bed to the other, this life of chronic illness...

Hi. Two years ago, on January 15, I launched “Living in a Body.” Thank you for coming along on this not-so-easy journey. Today, I’d like to bring back one of my favorites — episode 16 from May of 2022. After you listen to this one, I encourage you to go back and listen to some of the episodes that you may have missed. There’s 76 of them! (ARCHIVE) In the comments, let me know what your favorites a...

Hi. Welcome. For the podcast version of this episode, press PLAY above. Enjoy. H In Case I Go Missing The hashtag is #MillionsMissing. You know me. I don't go missing easily, but I can see how this illness makes it happen whether you want it to or not. There are a few things that I'd like to get off my chest in case I become one of the many. Please don't forget. Let’s raise a million for the milli...

Hi. It’s with a mix of sadness, surrender, humility and gratitude that I hand the narration of the Living in a Body Podcast over to my friend Cameron Mack. I think he does a very fine job. Sometimes he sounds a little bit like me. I’m not well enough to do it myself. I hope to be back someday. Please pray for me and press PLAY above. ❤️ Hal The Year in Review - Part One Happy New Year, everybody....