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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...

Everyone wants to offer their opinion. Everywhere we go, we hear, see, and feel people's take on life's many intriguing subjects. In this episode teZa and Carter discuss what they see as a negative tendency among many people to force their opinions upon others. Respect and kindness, where are they? Well, the Lords think that by treating others with kindness, kindness and good fortune appears in on...

While Carter is off today, teZa shares her family's true story about how Grandpa Bruns survived the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918. Everyone is safe from the potential current pandemic if they follow Grandpa's example. Everyone is connected: we are one global blended family. That's why teZa shares her intimate stories and ideas, and that's why she sometimes gets so impassioned, especially about envi...

The two hosts of ZLORD, teZa and Carter decide to hop right in and address a very HOT topic in today's world: the great divide happening among American society. Is it political alone? Or, as both attest, it's the culmination of many factors in many arenas of life that have led up to today's highly charged emotional states and political despair. The couple share from their own experiences and keep...

Focusing on the "inner journey" now, teZa and Carter talk about how they try to keep in the present NOW, finding it more challenging since their return. When alone with just themselves during their months-long camping trip, it was considerably easier. Now, with multi-responsibilities and pulls coming from all direction, the Lords discuss how each of them attempt to keep balanced in our increasingl...

The Lords discuss how teZa's latest book "Zen Love: The Journey of a Blended Family" (which Carter is reading for the very first time) is about every human's inner journey. Remarkable especially when in contrast to the continuous drama of today's social clime & the exotic six months' worth of vision quest adventures the Lords have just returned from. Like teZa's other books, this is a nonfiction n...

The nomads have been home for two months now and are now embarking on new journeys, together and separately. teZa explains how she's changing her focus from authoring books (having changed her manuscript-crammed writing room into an art studio and is busy painting already). For the next year she is committed to learning how to disseminate her four published books. Meanwhile, Carter is transforming...

Not for the faint-hearted, teZa one half of ZLORD podcast; the other half, Carter, being absent today) starts off warning the listener. If you are squeamish about bodily functions, especially bathroom stuff, best you skip this particular episode and check out other, less intimate ZLORD conversations. This one explores the REAL and unmistakably pernicious-natured "animal spirit" that both teZa and...

Half of ZLORD is busy and unavailable, so teZa decides to make the podcast her own for this once (or maybe more?). Things are sure different now that the nomadic pair are back home. Carter is off somewhere else, as he loves playing tennis and hanging with his buds. But he'll participate in the ZLORD conversation whenever he can, he just said as this episode is being published. During this one here...

The Lords, Carter and teZa are back home after six months without much of an itinerary or even a very defined plan. Now home in Florida they are adapting to sharing the precious Presence they've been relishing, and which they've focused on during their time away from their "regular" life. Here, they discuss how to maintain their awareness of Presence as they continue to flow with family, friends,...