We want to feel like we're living poetry. But then there's the daily struggle of being awake to beauty while managing kids, work, and the world. It's all about the pursuit of beauty, mystery and the sublime-- whether we succeed in our endeavor or not.
In this seriously crunchy episode (even for us), we explore gift giving, transformative rituals, and the world’s more vindictive bedtime stories. We also talk about the Clarion Writeathon and why it’s important. To sponsor Kodiak in the writeathon and be immortalized in our of our ads, go to: http://clarionwriteathon.org/members/profile.php?writerid=461338. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
We’re back with an all new episode! This week: finding satisfaction, enjoying the nearby rivers, the art of gift giving, and the summer solstice. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
In honor of summer vacation, we’re taking a bit of a vacation ourselves. We hope you enjoy this encore episode, originally played in July 2017. We’ll be back with a whole new episode soon! Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
In honor of summer vacation, we’re taking a bit of a vacation ourselves. We hope you enjoy this encore episode, originally played in June 2017. We’ll be back with a whole new episode next week! Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
The Neighborhood's Next Top Tormentor by Spirit of the Endeavor
It’s pretty amazing to consider that once upon a time, someone looked at a wolf or a wild feline and said, “You know, I think I’ll take that home with me.” Plus: making decisions intuitively and our awkward engagement stories. Also, the story Kodiak sold to Lightspeed Magazine is now available! Read or listen to the podcast here http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/our-side-of-the-door/. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
From Yakima's Hipster Collective- Salinger Reed by Spirit of the Endeavor
This week: why haircuts are The Best, new ways to become inspired by an aspirational self, watercolor drawing and art commissions, and the divine feminine. Also, the story Kodiak sold to Lightspeed Magazine is now available! Read or listen to the podcast here http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/our-side-of-the-door/. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
This week, we explore summer wish lists, cataloging the game cabinet, and why keeping a field notebook can be part of a spiritual practice. Also, the story Kodiak sold to Lightspeed Magazine is now available! Read or listen to the podcast here http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/our-side-of-the-door/. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
It’s our birthday and we’re having a party! Join us and friends as we recap what we’ve learned this year, the power of birthdays, what we’ve learned from growing older, and the general awkwardness of milestones. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com! Just can’t get enough of our geekitude? Check out Kodiak’s interview in the “Big Win” segment of the 5/13/18 edition of the Yakima Herald-Republic.
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One of Jamaica’s drawings now has a home in a museum! So… what does this mean? How does this change the nature of sharing art in the world? What makes the role of this art important? Plus: finding your village, messages from dreams, and the continual process of dealing with fear. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Higher Consciousness Roosting Center by Spirit of the Endeavor
Shout-out to folklorists who help preserve the treasures of cultural diversity and help us remember how very interesting the world is! Plus: rewriting our lives by lucid dreaming, hacking a home yoga practice, and boggarts. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Yakima Secretary of Memification by Spirit of the Endeavor
How do you maintain connections with far-away friends? How do you awaken yourself to the awesomeness of your own home town? Plus: a life hack for seasonal food. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
America's Next Top Meditator by Spirit of the Endeavor
This very special episode features special guests who have appeared in many of our stories. Find out how to have a special family night, avoid procrastination, make collaborative art, and shoo unruly children from your home. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Kodiak manages to try a sensory deprivation tank without opening the gate to the Upside-Down, but Jamaica has her own existential thoughts. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
It’s Easter! And Passover! And the Equinox! Join us as we squee over spring holidays of all sorts. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Original released April 1, 2017. In this encore presentation, we are at our most earnest. Oh, yes, we take things very seriously on this most serious of days. You can trust us. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Yakima's Gondolier Service by Spirit of the Endeavor
What is the spiritual connection to our personal and collective pasts? What do we learn from holidays designed to disrupt life’s regular structures? And how can artists continue to add romance into their processes? Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Are You Barkin' Kidding Me? by Spirit of the Endeavor
How do you move around the energy in your life for a fresh burst of creativity, inspiration, and play? How do you awaken yourself to less familiar aspects of your community? And how do you become an expert… on yourself? Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Comic Sans Versus Papyrus by Spirit of the Endeavor
In our unplugged special, you get to hear what Jamaica and Kodiak sound like when they haven’t had a chance to babble together for a whole week. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
We explore making up your own games, outsourcing mystical experiences, teaching kids how to avoid being bystanders, and an unorthodox approach to Lent. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
This week: how repetition within a family can make moments in time more special, calling a moratorium on being embarrassed about normal biological activity, states of grace, and vulnerability. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
It’s Galentines’ Day, the best day of the year! We explore romantic friendship, enhancing romance in long term relationships, the joys of crushes, and the ways of love in the animal world. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com!
Sorry, Not Sorry Super Trainer Collar by Spirit of the Endeavor
Sometimes you build the life you want almost by accident. In today’s show, we have three ways of creating your ideal life… without actually trying? Plus: building a regular spiritual practice, the bigger part of our long lives, and parenting when sick. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com
Courtesy Smell - Be - Gone Port by Spirit of the Endeavor
How do different kinds of dates strengthen family and friend connections? When you’re already pretty good at your art, what do you do to become better? How do you know when it’s time to be still and when it’s time to be in motion? Plus: the things chickens force a person to consider. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com And check out the Spirit of the Endeavor YouTube channel to see our live Folklife show from this summer!
What happens when both the skeptical view of the universe and the mystical view both turn out to be romantic and poignant? How do you come out when you haven’t really been in the closet? What’s life like while making progress in an artistic career? Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com And check out the Spirit of the Endeavor YouTube channel to see our live Folklife show from this summer!
How do you create a sense of abundant time? What’s the difference between a to-do list and fun tasks? What everyday objects in your world need to be turned into art? Plus: America’s Next Top Meditator! Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com And check out the Spirit of the Endeavor YouTube channel to see our live Folklife show from this summer!
Trickster is back! Let's see what he's teaching us. Plus: wildness in winter, humor in parenting, and conversations with the infinite. Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com And check out the Spirit of the Endeavor YouTube channel to see our live Folklife show from this summer!
This year’s adventure: plan specific ways to deliberately incorporate more beauty, mystery, and the sublime into our lives! Also: being a traveler in your own community, productive quitting, and accepting the more mysterious ways that we can change the world around us. Plus: the Beddie (™) New Year’s Eve! Get in touch: www.spiritoftheendeavor.net and spiritoftheendeavor@gmail.com P. S. If you've wanted to see what our live Folklife Festival show looked like, now you can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DssxpP62nSI
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