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23. Why we’re so divided?
Cynthia talks about wearing all kinds of lenses that give us a different perspective on the world around us. Some of those lenses are dividing us and we need to get ri...
22. A Caring Community
When you need help, you need to rely on others. People of Tulsa are very good at helping others, but so are Canada geese. Cynthia reads a poem about them which feature...
21. Loss
There are more funerals in October, it seems. At some funerals there are many people - at some others, no one shows up. Death is a loss, but there are so many other lo...
20. Double Helix Twisting
When you have breast cancer survivors in your family, you have to check yourself for lumps often. Cynthia honors her Mother and her Sister, both breast cancer survivor...
19. What I Hunger For
Cynthia talks about her book, "Between Tahlequah and Tulsa", the Ozark Mountains, and the Cherokee Nation. She reflects on both the experiences of the Native Americans...
18. The Grid in My Brain
In this episode, Cynthia gives us the idea of our "home" grid to ponder on. At the home you grew up in, you know where each side of the world is, you see the world thr...
17. How Change Helps Us Grow?
Cynthia talks about changes that make us different from other people. She examines heritages and influences that made her life's changes and how music, food, or people...
16. Who am I? # 2: About the soil
As a part of the "Who who am I?" series, Cynthia talks about the soil we all put into as a metaphor for life. She is providing exercises for types of soil we grew up i...
15. Dialysis
Today Cynthia talks about autumn days in Minnesota and Colorado, about a circle of life, and how fall reminds her of the period she lost her father. She reads her poem...
14. Body Image
Today Cynthia talks about body image and our obsession with images that are accepted and "In". Thin is in, but not for breasts and muscles. Being in a popular category...
13. How I Move Forward?
Today Cynthia talks about spiritual health and using metaphors of being on a bicycle as a guidepost toward moving forward and being healthier.
12. Yoga and Poetry
Cynthia talks about how yoga training helped her to ease the pain and how poetry, just like yoga, can do the same for a person inside. Reaching some deep places and wo...
11. I Want to Play the Drums
Warm September days Cynthia uses for writing and this time she talks about using onomatopoeia in writing and reads her story to show how writing using onomatopoeia is ...
10. At the Beach
Cynthia talks about late and early risers, people who are always on time and those who are never on time. We use categorization so much. Is it really helpful and usefu...
09. The Real You
Cynthia talks about the things that might not appeal to everyone, but make you unique, nevertheless. While you may focus on things that you categorize, there are also ...
08. Merry Mary at the Fair
The month of August in Oklahoma is arid. On one of those days when she had to wake up early in the morning to avoid the heat, Cynthia wrote a short story for children....
07. Summer Retreat
Cynthia reminisces the log cabins both she and her husband remember fondly and recites a poem about one's very own hidden summer place to relax and unwind.
06. Ask yourself: Who Am I?
This week, Cynthia encourages us to answer a question that sounds simple, but it isn't: who am I? She shares a poem about her grandfather from the book "Between Tahleq...