Tracy Cochran - Coming Home to Yourself and Opening to Life
Editorial director of Parabola Magazine and Founder of the Hudson River Sangha, Tracy Cochran - an adventurer in life - talks about her book, Presence (Shambhala), a fine medicine collection of her stories that shed light and bolster the spirit.
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A Conversation with Jan Wurm - Hope and Renewal
"Painting is so many different things. It’s like working, and all of a sudden you realize, 'God, I’m in the middle of this!” It’s like you'd just encountered yourself again, like you'd been asleep, hadn’t been present, hadn’t been in the room with yourself. Then suddenly you’re there, with yourself in it.'"
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A Conversation with playwright Murray Mednick, 1939 - 2025
One Friday afternoon in March of 2018 I sat down with playwright Murray Mednick at his home just north of LA to talk about his work of over 50 years in theater. He calls it "experimental theater." Perhaps it's because we lack a category that might better describe his work. "In the East they understand this," he says...
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A Conversation with Fred Curchack - A Life in Theater
Curchack's remarkable journey in theater began early."In fifth grade I played a tree in a Thanksgiving pageant. They wrapped me in some brown crepe paper. It was an inglorious role. I felt I could do better than that." And he has. Much, much better. Actor, playwright and UTD Drama Professor shares stories of his wild ride...
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Ab Ex, the Cedar Bar, and a Ticket to Ride - A Conversation with Tom Schultz
“I met all kinds of people at the Cedar Bar, just a beat-up bar. The window had dead geraniums in it. No jukebox. No TV. Just booze and talk." But it was THE place. Schultz arrived in 1959, 20 years old, wtih introductions to De Kooning, Kline, Rothko, Motherwell... Here's a fountain of stories from the legendary era of Abstract Expressionism.
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The Soul of Medicine - A Conversation with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
"The highest human function is shrouded in mystery. I think the development of the human race was not about the ability to think and reason. I think it was the ability to perceive spiritual reality and to align oneself with it in some way. Science is very seductive. It offers us the dream of mastery. But we’ve traded mystery for mastery, and we’ve gotten a very bad deal from this."
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In Memory of a Singular Artist - Kathleen Cramer
"You light a candle. You allow, acknowledge, summon, count, and observe the correct behavior with your own dead who arrive so suddenly as to deny fear and invite bare acceptance. Not consciously asked, they arrive without invitation or warning like an uncle off the bus..."- Kathleen Cramer
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Meeting Gojira - A Conversation with Craig Nagasawa
Before painter and UCBerkeley professor, Craig Nagasawa, became an artist, he competed on the professional ski circuit. Here he shares his reflections about his Japanese roots and the meaning of the recent appearance of Gojira (Godzilla) in several of his remarkable paintings. An impeccable art
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Zoo Cain is My Real Name
At 69 I'm eventually going to run out of time, so I'm lobbying to work on rainbows when I get to the other side. I'm definitely creating with the spirit world all around me.
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On Hopelessness and Hope – A Conversation with Michael Penn
At the age of 22, a near death experience transformed Michael Penn into a seeker. He began a study of sacred texts and the founders of the world’s religions. Clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall, Penn shares the unforgettable story of his journey to inaccessible
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