Fabric Podcast

Something New Is Being Born: Conceiving

More than half of mothers have a ‘surprise’ conception. The same is true of how our best ideas, inventions, music, poems, books and artworks surprise us by showing up. During this noisy time of holiday, pandemic and more, can you be still and sense what is just starting to take hold in you?
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Better Than Compromise: The Journey to Better Than Compromise

You have to start this journey yourself. It feels risky, but the real risk is waiting for others to start and never going. Better Than Compromise is worth the risk. All you need is something you already have...a simple gift that breathes life, dignity, possibility and hope into the world. 
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Better Than Compromise: A Commitment to the Big Win

Let’s be clear, the Big Win was not the win some people got and others did not in the election. It's the win that's difficult to imagine, even harder to make happen, yet it asks for your commitment. Will you commit to a win neither you nor the other side could accomplish alone or even see coming?  EPISODE PAGE

Better Than Compromise: Pause & Catch Your Breath

A contentious, volatile election happened this week. Whether you were on the winning side, the losing side, or somewhere in the middle it is important to pause, take a breath, and remember that it is not about winning or losing. We will use this week to ground and settle ourselves, lift our eyes to the bigger picture of what we are all part of, and prepare for the work ahead of us; an essential step to discovering Better Than Compromise.
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Better Than Compromise: What’s Wrong With Compromise?

What’s wrong with compromise? Other than it is less than either of us was hoping for and it seldom happens? The obvious option doesn’t look any better: win/lose has never been the way forward. Just watch how it plays out in politics. As individuals and as society we need to explore what is better than compromise and what it takes to get there. Join us in imagining this calmer, counter-cultural vision as the election rages around us. 
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Citizen! What a Citizen Can Do

Citizens can create the future for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. It's what we are always doing, whether we know it or not. And if we don’t take our citizenship seriously, no one may want the future we leave them with. Apathy, discouragement, and hopelessness are rampant in younger generations and they have seen little to make them feel differently.  It’s time to change that, fellow citizens. Let’s listen deeply and act. This is about thought and action for November 3 and beyond.
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Citizen! Why Be a Citizen?

Feel like a stranger in your own land? The marginalized have for centuries, and now many with privilege feel it too. Is citizenship a game where we pretend we get along, or is it what we've missed long enough to bring us to this place? With an election three weeks away, we're at a critical juncture of realizing what it means to be a citizen and of acting on it. 
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Don't Feed the Animals: Certainty

Who doesn’t want to be sure? Especially about big decisions.  But as sure as you may be, isn’t there some twinge of not-sure? Certainty is a tempting goal, but it seldom comes. Yet we act as if we have it a lot. It's an animal on the loose. 
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