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Peace Is Here explores the deep architecture of a life unweaponed with a light-hearted touch and a scholar’s heart. Join Avis Kalfsbeek, writer of feisty fiction, for a daily curriculum of peace. We explore historic treaties, nature’s quiet wisdom, and the creative art-vision required for #TheGreatDisarmament. From deep-dive series on peace heroes to fiction stories and personal riffs, we look beneath the surface to see the peace that is already here.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Please enjoy audio chapters 26 through 30 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 31 - 35 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Please enjoy audio chapters 21 through 25 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 26 - 30 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Please enjoy audio chapters 16 through 20 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 21 - 25 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Saturday Sep 24, 2022
Please enjoy audio chapters 11 through 15 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 16 - 20 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Please enjoy audio chapters 6 through 10 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 11 - 15 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Please enjoy audio book chapters 1 through 5 of One More Year, Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer 1. “One more year -- keep your stuff longer, people” is Tilly’s mantra as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their consumerism to give the planet a fighting chance against climate change. (Chapters 6 - 10 are coming in the next episode.)
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
I’d like to share a birthday note I wrote to my friends and a recording I made on my birthday with a prayer of peace. “Closer than my varicose veins, nearer than my sagging turkey neck.” Peace is here now, my dear friends.
Music: Una Manana and Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Sylvia Earle’s Ted Talk Mission Blue: https://mission-blue.org/about/
Studs Terkel’s 1970 Interview of Shantidas (Lanza Del Vasto) : https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/lanza-del-vasto-discusses-his-book-return-source
MC Yogi (featuring Matisyahu) – Heaven is Here: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/6BGX3CwRyogbkmXHlLb9pJ?si=gXggna2fQqWdLveJHtaSnAYouTube: https://youtu.be/sfqkbyJSuf0
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Get the Audio Book: One More Year, Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet, on Audio https://www.audible.com/pd/B09M8Z8DFY/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-286720&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_286720_rh_us
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
“Everybody in the modern day and age wants to live like there house is its own tiny Target…” Join me to hear master spiritual clutter cutter, Kira Rodenbush talk about how we relate to our “stuff.” Her podcast is titled, “What’s Up With Your Stuff?” and in this light-hearted interview she talks about a family “Bob-Ross-on-acid” painting that she has carried from home to home, how to approach those doom boxes in storage, and how our children are the hope for the future to curb unbridled consumerism. Enjoy!
Kira Rodenbush: Please check out Kira Rodenbush’s podcast What’s Up With Your Stuff, Conversations on the Consequences of Clutter. Here is a link to the show on Apple or search on your favorite podcast player. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-up-with-your-stuff-conversations-on-the/id1596381941
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Wendell Berry – The Unsettling of America: https://www.amazon.com/Unsettling-America-Culture-Agriculture/dp/161902599X/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=161902599X&psc=1
More Peace anyone? If you ever think that a bit more meditation and time in nature and a little less phone would lead you to a more peaceful life, you might enjoy some simple tips in my free ebook Tree, Tea, no TV, the little book of big peace. Just go to my website www.AvisKalfsbeek.com to download it.
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as $1 per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Get the Audio Book: One More Year, Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet, on Audio https://www.audible.com/pd/B09M8Z8DFY/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-286720&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_286720_rh_us
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Avis Kalfsbeek’s narration of philosopher, truth-seeker, dad-next-door-surfer Rob Bell’s superb synthesis of the change we need now in gun policy, with music by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Link to Rob Bell Politics and Guns Episode 59: https://robbell.podbean.com/e/episode-59-politics-and-guns-part-6-we-can-do-this/
Pew Research – Americans and Guns: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
The Brookings Essay “The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety” by Matt Bennett: http://csweb.brookings.edu/content/research/essays/2013/sandy-hook-promise-gun-safety.html
The Most Powerful Story The Onion Every Wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/the-onion-mass-shooting-article/
Smart Gun Laws: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/ (formerly Americans for Responsible Solutions)
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: https://www.csgv.org/
Protect Children From Gun Violence – Sandy Hook Promise: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/
Third Way: www.thirdway.org
Gun Violence Archive for updated statistics: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org
Podcast music is The Red Kite and Dalai Lama Riding a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at www.AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as a cup of coffee1` per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Get the Audio Book: One More Year, Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet, on Audio
https://www.audible.com/pd/B09M8Z8DFY/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-286720&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_286720_rh_us
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
“Why peace? Why now?” American University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution leaders ask. Learn more about the women faculty in this top-tier peace think tank. Study peace.
Peace Studies: American University School of International Services – Masters in International Peace and Conflict Resolution https://www.american.edu/sis/ipcr/
Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez.
Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW
Get the Books: The Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet book series can be found at www.AvisKalfsbeek.com or at your favorite online bookseller.
Support the Peace and Planet messages by contributing to my Patreon for as little as a cup of coffee1` per month: www.Patreon.com/PedrotheWaterDog
Get the Audio Book: One More Year, Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet, on Audio
https://www.audible.com/pd/B09M8Z8DFY/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-286720&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_286720_rh_us