In this episode Sascha and I take a chronological stroll through the family systems we've emerged from. We peer into our past, notice how we've brought talents and troubles through to to present and imagine hopeful futures.

We discuss childhoods spent keeping track of the keys, and escaping to glorious outskirts and what it's like to step into grown up versions of our family roles.

In this episode Sascha and I discuss the space between grief and disappointment, poetry and instruction, learning and discovering.

We decided to have the theme of our first ever episode recorded with the participation of a live audience be - mistakes!

It was no accident; it guaranteed no matter what went wrong we would be perfectly on theme. Gratefully it all went exactly right, in a fumbling, not totally planned a little bit jagged and loose kind of way. Take a listen and see what you think.

In this episode we invite you to the recording of our first community episode on June 24th at Leaven Community Center across from Alberta Park in Portland.

We also discuss our disaster bonded friendship, shared mistakes and our ideas about the long and short term impact of things done imperfectly.

In this episode Sascha and I tell stories of our experiences of public grief. We notice how different it feels to hold grief other's than it feels to spill our own and wonder about what conditions make grief feel safe enough or wild enough to come out into the open.

In this episode Sascha and I talk about the ways we reach out from inside ourselves to meet the world.

We explore the difference between operating from our logical, thinking brains with our polished, public personalities showing vs opening from a deep and misty inner space that feels more vulnerable but also, maybe, more alive. We talk about how both methods have served us and what we think has shaped our access to our deep knowing and revealing.

In this episode Sascha and I talk about magic as a remedy for soul-bleaching imperialism. We share our personal strategies for sniffing out old stands of magic growing in the forests of our beings and tips for how to notice and tend spots of re-emerging magic in the wider world.

In this episode Sascha and I talk about the practice of sharing abundance.

We consider how awkward and un-practiced we feel at noticing what we have in abundance, believing it is needed and delivering it to actual beings who can use it. Similarly we discuss how often we feel under-resourced and blindly grasping for help we can't find though we know (or at least suspect) they can't be more than a few connections away.

We experiment with an abundance practice wherein we make short lists of what we, personally, need and have to give in this moment and also what we as a project have abundantly and need desperately, and notice that it feels good and useful right away. Before any actual help is exchanged.

We wonder at how we can build more structures for this kind of resource sharing, talk about some of our current efforts toward this end and feel a little hopeful about what might come next.