Peace Is Here with Avis Kalfsbeek

Ep 139 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Celia Pym, Mending as Listening

Celia Pym: Mending as Listening

In this episode, we meet textile artist Celia Pym, who is best known for her visible mending—repairing garments in ways that honor their wear. We explore the power of slowing down, the meaning of listening through craft, and what it means to mend without hiding the damage.

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Recommended Reading: On Mending by Celia Pym

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 138 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Gary Snyder, Poetry of the Wild

Gary Snyder: Poetry of the Wild

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. In this episode, we honor Gary Snyder—poet, ecologist, Buddhist practitioner—whose work calls us back into conversation with land. We reflect on speaking from place, on grounded wildness, and on how poetry can be humble care.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 137 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Anni Albers, Threads of Quiet Resolve

Anni Albers: Threads of Quiet Resolve

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. In this episode, we honor Anni Albers, whose life in weaving taught us fidelity to material, restraint in design, and depth in simplicity. We reflect on letting what we hold teach us, rather than fashioning what we wish.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: On Weaving by Anni Albers

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp:https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 136 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - George Nakashima, Wood and Soul

George Nakashima: Wood & Soul

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. In this episode, we honor George Nakashima—architect, craftsman, and wood whisperer—who listened to trees and let design grow from them rather than impose upon them. We explore his philosophy, his time in internment, and his vision of Altars for Peace.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworker’s Reflections

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 135 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Virginia Woolf, A Room and a Voice

Virginia Woolf: A Room and a Voice

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. This episode looks at the life and work of Virginia Woolf, whose writing and essays transformed how we understand time, consciousness, and creative independence. We reflect on her insistence that women need money and space in order to write—and how that applies to all of us trying to think clearly in today’s noisy world.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 134 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Leonard Cohen, Song, Silence, and Shadow

Leonard Cohen: Song, Silence, and Shadow

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft continues. We explore the life of Leonard Cohen—a poet, singer, and spiritual seeker—whose artistry emerged from stillness and whose words embraced brokenness. This episode reflects on his monastic years and how silence can become a keeper.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life by Anthony Reynolds

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 133 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Frida Kahlo, The Art of Keeping Pain

Frida Kahlo: The Art of Keeping Pain

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft: Frida Kahlo didn’t minimize or mask her pain. She turned it into art—and by doing so, left a legacy of radical honesty and emotional survival. In this episode, we reflect on the unflinching beauty of her life and work, and what it means to keep our hardest stories with care.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 132 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Albert Einstein, Thought in Motion

Albert Einstein: Thought in Motion

Creative Vision and Mindful Craft: In this episode, we meet Albert Einstein—the physicist whose ideas reshaped the cosmos, and whose life showed ways to simplify without loss. We lean into his habits of clarity and how we might adopt simplicity today.

Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 131 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Jane Addams, The Wisdom of the Neighborhood

Jane Addams: The Wisdom of the Neighborhood

The Social & Systemic "Enough." We honor Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of Hull House. She demonstrated that building peace and dismantling inequality is a local act—one block, one home, and one person at a time.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) by Jane Addams

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp:https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
• Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow

Ep 130 Peace Stuff: Architects of Enough - Bill Cunningham, The Eye on the Street

Bill Cunningham: The Eye on the Street

The Social & Systemic "Enough" continues. In this episode, we honor Bill Cunningham, whose lifelong devotion to street fashion gave dignity to everyday dressing. We reflect on how noticing detail, preserving integrity, and staying rooted in curiosity can be quiet acts of peace and resistance to commercial influence.

Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the Peace Stuff: Enough journey is here: AvisKalfsbeek.com

Recommended Reading: Bill Cunningham: On the Street (Five Decades of Iconic Photography)

Music: "Dalai Llama Riding a Bike" by Javier "Peke" Rodriguez

• Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW?si=uszJs37sTFyPbXK4AeQvow