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Love Is Never Wasted
Lounging in bed on the day after a holiday dedicated to love, listening to my favorite Saturday morning mix of music on a show called Sleepy Hollow broadcast on Philly station WXPN. In a few hours I...
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Walking Through the World as a Good Man Who Had Walked as a Good Woman
As a music lover since childhood, I am always delighted to discover artists that had not crossed my radar screen. The source for much of that melodic magic is my favorite radio station, WXPN which...
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Peaceful Warrior Meets Dynamic Diva
Do you know what happens when you hear a song that moves you before knowing anything about the artists? You want to learn all you can about them and are hungry for more. That was the case the first...
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What Is Your America?
As the calendar page reads October 3, 2020, the world is rolling and tumbling in a vortex of darkness and light, of terror, and triumph over it. Music has the power to speak to our deepest fears and...
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Living in Radical Amazement
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never...
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Spiritual Nourishment
If times were ‘normal, at this moment, I would be at Wiggins Park in Camden, NJ for the XPoNential Music Festival hosted by my favorite radio station, WXPN. It has been a highlight of my summer...
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Snow Day Musings
On a snowy East Coast day here in beautiful Bucks County, PA, I am in pjs and cozy turtle neck. A fuzzy blue blanket is covering my lap and my mid-back length hair is cascading down my shoulders. It...
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Is Prayer Enough to Heal the Ills of the World?
I just watched an interview that Anderson Cooper did with a mother in a shelter in Ukraine who was holding her three-month-old daughter decked out in a little red hooded suit. The baby was fascinated...
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Doing Something Meaningful In Each Moment
Lounging in bed on a drizzly mid-May Saturday afternoon, listening to Sleepy Hollow on WXPN, which is a weekend easy wakeup show on a member-supported radio station based in Philly. It is a ritual I...
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What Do You Do To Unwind So You Don’t Unravel?
I am a recovering workaholic who has been known to work 12-14 hour days and sleep five or six hours a night for years at a time. I used to say that sleep was highly overrated. That was until 6/12/2014...
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August Is Happiness Happens Month
I just discovered that August is Happiness Happens Month. It came to be when the group called Happiness Happens was formed as an extension of the Secret Society of Happy People founded by Pamela Gail...
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A Reprieve From the Hectic Routine of Life
I’m not complaining, but my life is filled with many to-dos. They are a measure of the fullness and richness of my days. Awakening early to be with my grandchildren most mornings; 2 1/2 year old Dean...
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Don’t Let Your Mind Prey on Your Fears
Prayer comes as naturally to me as breathing, part of my childhood inheritance in which Jewish prayers fed my soul. As an adult, I added invocations from other faith traditions. Whatever speaks to my...
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A Quiet Christmas Eve
It is Christmas Eve 2022. I am listening to an eclectic blend of holiday music, played by Philly local DJ Robert Drake. He is a true treasure. The show is called The Night Before which typically...
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Longing for the Familiar
The title of this piece came to me, as is often the case, in my sleep. I knew it to be Truth (with a capital T) since I have been immersed in that dynamic for the past several years. It began in the...
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What if We Had Chosen a Different Life?
I ponder this paradigm often as I am simultaneously grateful for the life I have chosen. Some might contend that our lives were decided for us by soul contract before we are incarnated. I have come to...
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Staring Up At the Ceiling
I am writing this while in bed on a lazy Sunday morning, music wafting through the air, as always my favorite show on WXPN called Sleepy Hollow. Early morning ease into my day melody and harmony, notes...
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Going With the Flow Into Yom Kippur
There was a time in my life in which I needed to plan things out, covering all eventualities. You know that saying, “We make plans and God laughs.”? It has been happening more often lately. I had...
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Breathing In, Breathing Out…
Still in flannel nightgown at 11:33 am, listening to the music that feeds my soul on WXPN, promising myself that this weekend will mostly include resting in between writing articles, starting with this...
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Random Meanderings on Such a Winter’s Day
– It is February 17th on a snowy Saturday morning here in Bucks County (an hour outside of Philadelphia), PA. A few weeks ago, Punxsutawney Phil (a.k.a. The Groundhog) who is the purported...
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