Welcome to the Speakings Podcast, where I explore philosophical and spiritual topics in an unscripted manner, hoping to revive language as living presence and philosophy as contemplative, embodied practice. You’ll find blog posts associated with each podcast on my website, including practices for many of the “speakings.” If you’d like to join me in crafting more whole and authentic lives, please share your insights, experiences with the practices, or suggestions for future episodes on my website at https://www.sondrawriter.com/speakings-podcast or by email at sondra@sondrawriter.com.
* The purpose of this podcast is not to convey information: it is to....?
* The paradox of productivity: you are most productive when you are not concerned with the end product.
* Work as letting go, work as rest.
"My prayer for all of you that you will feel like a bird feeding from the hand of a stranger, you'll know the trustworthy from the untrustworthy in perfect simplicity, and life will take care of you. This safety is... ready and waiting like a warm pillow. It's always here, here in the heart of God, the heart of the living moment."
You can find the full excerpt from my book and comment further here. (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-19-what-is-love)
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics, you can email me at sondra@sondrawriter.com (mailto:sondra@sondrawriter.com). You can also check out my website at (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com)www.sondrawriter.com (http://www.sondrawriter.com) (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com), where you'll find my essays and links to my memoir (https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Once-Swallowed-Me-Solitude/dp/1736232002/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ESU01F8PLHGR&keywords=the+sea+once+swallowed+me&qid=1690749758&sprefix=the+sea+once+swallowed+me%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1).
Music is L'épisode cévenol by Circus Marcus, from the Free Music Archive. License type: CC BY-NC.You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-11-in-praise-of-stupidity).
18 Feb 2026
What is Love?
What is love?
* On the delusions & liberations of romantic love
* How I left Mormonism (and how nothing real was lost)
* Loving my husband meant sacrificing what I thought was my identity
* A reading about how love collapses time.
You can find the full excerpt from my book and comment further here. (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-19-what-is-love)
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics, you can email me at sondra@sondrawriter.com (mailto:sondra@sondrawriter.com). You can also check out my website at (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com)www.sondrawriter.com (http://www.sondrawriter.com) (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com), where you'll find my essays and links to my memoir (https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Once-Swallowed-Me-Solitude/dp/1736232002/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ESU01F8PLHGR&keywords=the+sea+once+swallowed+me&qid=1690749758&sprefix=the+sea+once+swallowed+me%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1).
Music is L'épisode cévenol by Circus Marcus, from the Free Music Archive. License type: CC BY-NC.You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-11-in-praise-of-stupidity).
2 Jun 2025
On Creativity and Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese"
Intimate musings on creativity, the self-enjoying nature of time, and the richness of reality beyond a plot-line. Then, a poetry reading of Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese."
"And when we allow ourselves to be consumed by time, by light, by darkness, by the persistent force of our own aching lives, we stop suffering because we stop thinking that we are somehow separate from the pain and separate from the joy and separate from the love that we are seeking.
When you become the goodness...there is nothing more to do, and so everything is simply done—done in you and through you. Trying to be good is denying your true nature; and the more you deny it, the more difficult it is to embrace the goodness you already are."
You can find the full poem and a convenient place to suggest future poems and comment here. (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-18-on-creativity-and-mary-oliver-s-wild-geese)
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future topics, you can email me at sondra@sondrawriter.com (mailto:sondra@sondrawriter.com). You can also check out my website at (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com)www.sondrawriter.com (http://www.sondrawriter.com) (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/www.sondrawriter.com), where you'll find my essays and links to my memoir (https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Once-Swallowed-Me-Solitude/dp/1736232002/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ESU01F8PLHGR&keywords=the+sea+once+swallowed+me&qid=1690749758&sprefix=the+sea+once+swallowed+me%2Caps%2C123&sr=8-1).
Music is L'épisode cévenol by Circus Marcus, from the Free Music Archive. License type: CC BY-NC.You can find the synopsis of this episode, further notes, and a convenient place to comment here (https://www.sondrawriter.com/post/ep-11-in-praise-of-stupidity).
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