30 Things

All Poems read by GiGi

Poem: Written on a Big Cheap Postcard from Verona

By James Wright

Poem: Just as the winged energy of delight

– Rainer Maria Rilke  (translated by Robert Bly)

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“

T. S. Eliot,

Chapter 24 04 12 2024 becoming a morning person…

Why I Wake Early

By Mary Oliver

Chapter 23  03 29 2025  “I am constitutionally incapable of being honest with myself, about myself, by myself”

            Chapter read by the host, David Kennedy (London UK)

            OLIVER – The Journey

READ OUT OF ORDER

Chapter 22  03 22 2025  What is the “cash value” of your ideas and beliefs?

            Chapter read by the author, Bill Schaberg

            OLIVER – Wild Geese

READ OUT OF ORDER

Chapter 21 04 05 2025  Whatever it is…just say “Welcome!”

            Chapter read by Randy Ens (Toronto CN)

            HAFIZ – The Sacred Dance of Life

Chapter 20  03 15 2025  Read some poetry

            Chapter read by the wife of the author, Sara Jaeger

            POE – Annabel Lee, read by Bill Schaberg

            COLLINS – Introduction to Poetry

Chapter 19  03 08 2025 “Future-back planning”

            Chapter read by the author, Bill Schaberg (Fairfield CT)           

SHELLEY – Ozymandias

Chapter 18  03 01 2025  Where would a person have to be standing to see things that way?

            Chapter read by Bill Cleveland (Los Angeles CA)

            LOVELACE – To Althea, From Prison

Chapter 17  02 22 2025  So…what has become clear to you since the last time we met?

            Chapter read by Lucy Rose Da Silva (currently in Chicago IL)

            OLIVER – Answers

Chapter 16  02 15 2025  “Compassion can never co-exist with judgement.”

            Chapter read by Mary Carter (Savannah GA)

            RAMON-JIMENEZ – I Am Not I

Chapter 15  02 08 2025  What we need here is complete transparency!

            Chapter read by Paula P. (Champaign IL)            

OLIVER – March

Chapter 14  02 01 2025  “First, climb out of the cauldron…”

            Chapter read by the author (Bill Shaberg)

            ANGELOU – I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Chapter 13  01 25 2025  Whatever truth there is, it exists in the experience, not in the explanation.

            Chapter read by Jay Stinnett (Sedona AZ)

            OLIVER – Don’t Hesitate (contributed by Maureen H, Roseburg OR)

mtg after mtg

Chapter 12  01 18 2025  Identify the places where you encounter the spiritual and go there often.

            Chapter read by Cody Peterson (AZ)

            OLIVER – Messenger

Chapter 11  01 11 2025  There are only five things worth fighting about in a marriage.

            Chapter read by Joyce McCready (East of Toronto)

            SCHNEIDER – Old Love

Chapter 10  01 04 2025  “I can really identify with that emotional cowardice.”

            Chapter read by Susan (Ontario)

            DOBYNS – How To Like It

Chapter 09  12 28 2024  Embrace the fact that we are all different

            Chapter read by Patrick O’Donnell (Boston MA)     

     OLIVER – Wild Geese

Chapter 08  12 21 2024  Pay attention to what you pay attention to.

            Chapter read by Priscilla Hill (Asheville NC)            

HOAGLAND – Questions of Influence

Chapter 07  12 14 2024  NEVER say: “You shouldn’t feel that way!”

            Chapter read by the author’s wife, Sara Jaeger (Fairfield, CT)

            ANDREAS-SALOME – A Prayer to Life

Chapter 06  12 07 2024  All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data.

            Chapter read by Hugh Hyatt (Bucks County PA)

            BARNES – Why Do You Ask?

Schaberg celebrated 43 years with us

Chapter 05  11 30 2024  You can pretend to care, but you can’t pretend to be there.

            Chapter ready by Rob Knox (Toronto CN)

            HEITZMAN – The School Room on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill

Chapter 04  11 23 2024  Want to form a new habit? Try attaching it to an old one.

            Chapter read by Thomas Nyhus (Iowa)

            RUMI – The Guest House

Chapter 03  11 16 2024  No matter what you may think, it’s alwasy a communication problem.

            Chapter read by the author’s wife, Sara Jaeger (Fairfield, CT)

            OLIVER – Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night

Chapter 02  11 09 2024  Find out what your boss wants… then do it.

            Chapter read by Kenji (San Francisco CA)

            ANGELOU – Continue

Chapter 01  11 02 2024  Loving someone means acting as if their happiness is important to you.

            Chapter read by the host, David Kennedy (London UK)

            FROST – The Road Not Taken

Bill reading from pg 563 WTBB Dr Howard Suggestions