Introducing Obit Speaks
MAY 29, 2009 TAGS:
Podcasts exploring the nooks and crannies of life, death and transitions.What is a Podcast, you ask?
They are like little online radio shows. Rather than tuning in at a specific time, you can "subscribe" through software like iTunes or through your RSS reader and episodes will download directly onto your computer.
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Obit Speaks, September 15, 2009
Patrick Swayze: Hungry Eyes
Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with author Joyce Gemperlein about the allure of actor Patrick Swayze. While watching Dirty Dancing with her pre-adolescent daughter, Gemperlein notes, "I could see it dawning, however subliminally, on this young teenager that, as playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire'"
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Obit Speaks, August 26, 2009
Edward Kennedy: A Strong FinishObit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Judy Bachrach about the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Bachrach explains that Kennedy strove to atone for the foolish and criminal acts of his younger life.
"He was an astonishing Senator in the second half of his life... This is a savage country, and Ted Kennedy tried to tame it."
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Obit Speaks, July 29, 2009
Ask JudyObit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Obit-mag.com's "resident sage" Judy Bachrach about her weekly advice column for the terminally ill and their loved ones, Ask Judy.
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Obit Speaks, July 10, 2009
Michael Schaffer: The Grim ReaderObit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with the author of Obit Magazine's weekly wrap-up of the art and science of obit writing, the Grim Reader.
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Obit Speaks, May 29, 2009
"Hidden Memorials" by Jeff Weinstein
Photographer Lisa Ross travelled to the western Chinese province of Xinjiang to photograph Sufi burial mounds cut off to foreign visitors and Sufi practitioners alike. These structures and Ross' subtle and sensitive portraits occasion critic Jeff Weinstein to consider the form of photography as it relates to memory, legacy and social documentation.When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
-- Epitaph for Sufi poet and teacher Rumi
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Obit Speaks, May 15, 2009
"The Looming Death of Natural Silence" by John GrossmannOf the many fronts of natural degradation, silence is perhaps the least recognized. But author John Grossmann finds that natural silence connects us to a pre-modern consciousness like no other natural feature of our planet. We would ignore it's demise at our own peril.
“Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything.”
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Obit Speaks, May 1, 2009
“A Bitter Visitor” by Suzanne Strempek SheaObit’s Krishna Andavolu travels to Palmer, Massachusetts and sits down with author Suzanne Strempek Shea to talk about, “A Bitter Visitor,” her story about death and anger.
“What I should have said but didn’t was, ‘Thanks,’ for the gift of having someone to yell at.”
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“When Death Came to Call” by Lesléa NewmanA cozy morning snack becomes an intimate dance with death. Author Lesléa Newman recounts a near death experience and explains her poetic response to death’s omnipresent scythe.
“Death, like a furry brown bat with a wingspread as wide as a pterodactyl’s, shrank Himself to the size of a quarter and slipped in through the crack underneath my front door.”
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