Poems, Guitar and Meditations

After years of resignation and isolation, learning to connect with yourself and others again.

Just breathe. Slowly.

Many years, many miles of driving.

Another short episode wirh ten techniques to help ground or center yourself and decompress. Numbers 21-30

A short meditation on grounding or centering techniques. Numbers 11-20. After you do one of these techniques, you can tell yourself, "You're Grounded!"

In this short episode, I discuss 10 ways to relax and ground yourself in the body.

Having a conversation with Gemini about how to handle frustrations that inevitably accompany a visit from my 80 year-old mom.

A short walking meditation.

A short rumination on aging and mortality.

A short full-body scan, breathing in and then out.

A short guided meditation on various acknowledgments and anxiety.

A short meditation on getting through the week.

A short meditation on the peaceful transfer of power.

Breathing while driving. 2025.

Naturally Artificial Chat #2: On Technology, Normalizing Indefensible Behavior, Algorithms, Attention, and Why Educating the Public About AI is Absolutely Necessary I ask the vast repository of information about what happened to decency and why we have normalized indefensible behaviors. I ask about how we can change our patterns of behavior around how we absorb the news, hijacking our limbic syste...

An important conversation about how to take the ideal short nap.

For a transcript of this essay, via Google doc, click here: Hello Good People, I recently listened to Ezra Klein talking with Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel, Palestine and democracy. Coates new book,  “The Message”   is getting widespread attention. I’ve appreciated his writing in the past, at The Atlantic and  “Between the World and Me.”  I’ve been listening to Ezra Klein’s podcast for a few years...

We've been reading Shel Silverstein's classic children's book of poems and cartoons, Where the Sidewalk Ends. We decided to record the first 34 pages of poems (most of them). Here it is. Please enjoy these poems. If you want to go to Shel's site: https://www.shelsilverstein.com/9780060256678/where-the-sidewalk-ends/ Love, Jonah and Rebelle

Self-compassion is complicated for me. I understand I must love my self before I can love anyone else. But that love is not simple and easy. Love for myself is complicated. I value certain aspects of who I am and what I bring to the relationships in my life, my work and my creative projects...but I also get stuck in negative thought cycles. I can spiral. I can ignore my own needs and then become i...

In this episode, I read and reflect on the Buddhist concept of Equanimity. In short, equanimity is about finding balance and protecting yourself from attaching to external forces like praise and blame, fame and disrepute, pleasure and pain, or gain and loss. Alongside the reading: sounds of a Tibetan singing bowl. Though I will not attach to the results of putting this episode out, I will send out...

Walking Meditation (Being Sick, Watching NBA Playoffs With Young Child, Mother's Day, Political Fears)

Hear the waves. Calm your mind. Almost.

Big picture questions with my 5 year-old.

A short walking meditation reflecting on health, mortality, and aging parents. Then a cover of "Heaven" by The Talking Heads.

Walking and talking about Self-compassion.