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In this episode, I'm thrilled to welcome financial expert, Anna Orenstein-Cardona. Anna, a native of Puerto Rico, embarked on a journey that led her from the halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to a distinguished career spanning over two decades in finance across the USA and Europe. Fuelled by her passion for financial equality, Anna transitioned her financial expertise into founding Wear Your Money Crown®, a dynamic financial education firm committed to bridging economic disparities through innovative, heart-centered educational initiatives. In addition to her financial advocacy, Anna is a children's author, and her debut picture book, 'The Tree of Hope,' was published in 2022. We dive deep into the complexities of wealth—what it truly means, how to build it, and its impact on our lives and communities. We discuss how wealth is not just about money but about creating a life aligned with your higher self. Whether you're a coach, healer, or consultant, your personal finances can significantly impact your business success, and Anna is here to guide us through it all. We talk about money as energy, financial wellness, and overcoming limiting beliefs. Anna also shares practical financial tips—from understanding your mindset to actionable steps for improving your financial health. We touch on the importance of passive income, the significance of investing, and even how to teach your kids about money. Plus, we dive into her work as a children's author and how her financial expertise intertwines with her storytelling passion. Join us for an episode packed with wisdom, practical advice, and a whole lot of heart. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by your finances or unsure where to start, this episode is for you. Enjoy the listen! ____________________ 01:48 Introducing Anna Orenstein Cordova 03:38 Anna's Journey and Expertise 04:28 Holistic Financial Wellness 05:45 Mindset and Financial Abundance 19:58 Financial Strategies for Business Owners 28:51 Maximizing Your Savings 29:50 Overcoming Financial Procrastination 33:27 The Importance of Financial Education 41:44 Teaching Financial Literacy to Children 45:51 Practical Financial Tips for Parents 49:26 Inspired Actions for Financial Wellness 53:58 Where to Find More Resources ____________________ Find Anna over on her website wearyourmoneycrown.com or Instagram. You can book a call with her here and get your guide to smart investing here. ____________________ INVITATION TO WORK WITH JOANNA⁠⁠⁠ Information on my 4-Week Intensive for coaches & healers ready to position themselves to attract premium, high-frequency clients.

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema's greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating. Add in a few silly tangents and a fun game at the end of the episode and you've got yourself a podcast we truly hope you love. On episode 63 of the Director Watch Podcast, the boys are joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson to discuss the next film in their Terrence Malick series, The Tree of Life (2011). We've come to the midpoint mark of the Malick series and have hit the most important film in the filmography of the director, not just in terms of accolades and being known as one of the most important films of the 2010s, but it is also the film Jay claims as his favorite film of all time. A very personal episode of Director Watch is in store as the guys, alongside Erik, break down Malick's most personal film to date about a journey through time, our place in the universe, what our stamp on history is, and what the meaning of life is through the eyes of a family living in a small Texas town. Ryan, Jay, and Erik talk about their relationship with The Tree of Life, how well the film has aged from when they first saw it due to growth and experience in their lives, the masterful imagery conveyed by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the work of Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain as not just parents to the boys in the film but as the personification of nature vs. nurture, the dinosaur sequence, the glorious ending mixed into the fascinating scenes feature Sean Penn as a grown up version of Jack, how Malick is able to evoke the viewer's memories of their past and juxtapose it to what he is showing on screen through his characters and setting, and of course, talk about the wild Oscar season that covered the films of 2011. You can listen to the Director Watch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more. This podcast runs 2h17m. The guys will be back next week to continue their series on the films of Terrence Malick with a review of his next film, To the Wonder. You can rent it via iTunes and Amazon Prime rental in preparation for the next episode of Director Watch. Till then, let's get into it. Music: MUSICALIFE, from Pond5 (intro) and “B-3” from BoxCat Games Nameless: The Hackers RPG Soundtrack (outro).

Laura J. Worley joins us for the first time to teach about the core programming used to map the splits of every Satanic Ritual Abuse victim owned by the worldwide cult of Lucifer. Laura Worley is a Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Author & survivor of this cult. Laura was born into a generational cult family and was sold into the CIA and MK Ultra projects as a child. Laura went to talk therapy for over 20 years & was not healing. Her journey of self discovery led her to find the root of her mental programming. The common programming themes of Alice in Wonderland or The Wizard of OZ are just a veneer cloaking the true core of the internal structure built by the Mothers of Darkness & the satanic cult of Lucifer. The Qliphoth/Kiliphot, Tree of Death is the map installed into victim's minds. Used by programmers as a Skeleton Key to open all the doors in all their victim's minds. This root level is where the New World Order/End Times programming is hidden. All survivors should be aware of this internal structure which may still be in operation even when you believe yourself to be healed. This is a must listen episode, necessary for understanding the truth of Trauma Based Mind Control & the worldwide Death Cult. Find Laura Worley here: https://laurajworley.com/ https://rumble.com/c/c-3326964 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09B2YBY5W/allbooks See Laura's course for professionals being held June 18 & 20, 2024. https://laurajworley.com/author-courses/ Also see Laura's online event for SRA survivors being held August 2nd, 3rd & 4th, 2024. https://laurajworley.com/events/ Please donate to Sean McCann ⁠⁠⁠https://onegreatworknetwork.com/sean-mccann/donate/⁠⁠⁠ BTC (bitcoin) address: 3Ptmi463Pu6HH1duop7rCKaxBriQkb4ina ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wakethedead⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/seanmccannabis⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Visit Wake the Dead's store! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://wakethedead.creator-spring.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find Sean McCann on X: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/SeanWakeTheDead⁠⁠⁠ Join the Wake the Dead telegram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/wakethedeadpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the Wake the Dead guilded server: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.guilded.gg/i/kJWaQzmp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wakethedead/support

Immerse yourself in 'The Tree of Life', a special Earth Day episode of 'Sleepy Seedlings' that explores the profound connection between humanity and the natural world. This episode delves into the symbolic and literal importance of trees as the lungs of the Earth, breathing vitality into our environment and symbolising the intricate web of life that connects us all. Through a narrative of scientific facts, mythological tales, and poetic insights, we celebrate the essential role trees play in sustaining ecological balance and enhancing our planetary health.As we mark Earth Day, 'The Tree of Life' invites listeners to reflect on sustainability and our shared responsibility to cherish and protect the natural world. Accompanied by the soothing sounds of nature, this episode encourages a meditative appreciation of the beauty and resilience of trees. It serves as a reminder that in caring for them, we nurture the very essence of life on Earth, fostering a future where humanity can thrive in harmony as a part of nature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meow. It's The Leopard! Get ready for another ball, it won't be the last. Charlie and Antonio watch Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian epic; can they handle all this opulence?Intro/outro music: Excerpt from 'The Tree of Life' by Alexandre Desplat.THE LEOPARD (1963), Italy and France, written by Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Suso Cecchi d'Amici, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and René Barjavel, directed by Luchino Visconti, cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno, featuring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale.

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In this second episode of the Mic the Gardener - Gardening Podcast I chat with award-winning garden writer, television presenter and wildlife gardening expert, Kate Bradbury. We talk about Kate's wonderful new book 'The Tree in My Garden: Choose One Tree, Plant It - Change the World' published by DK Books which is a real page turner and packed with useful information to help you choose one (or more) perfect trees for your garden. We also chat at length about Kate's career to date and much, much more. You can follow Kate on her Instagram page by clicking here. Make sure you don't miss out on the exciting future episodes of the Mic the Gardener - Gardening Podcast by hitting the FOLLOW/SUBSCRIBE button. You could also learn more about me by following me on my Instagram account. Click here for details. Thanks for listening and see you soon. Mike

Host Joshua Madden welcomes special guests Taylor Patrick O'Neill and Urban Hannon for a special episode discussing Terrence Malick's 2011 masterpiece ‘The Tree of Life'."The Tree of Life" is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theologyandreality.substack.com/subscribe

Our final stories for the week both feature kind old trees doing their best. This is 'The Kind Old Oak' and 'The Tree'. Host Dan Scholz Find out where to subscribe to The Folktale Project at http://folktaleproject.com/subscribe Help keep The Folktale Project going by becoming a supporter on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/folktaleproject

In this episode, Emily and Dan are joined by Steve Edmonds, Eva Bishop, and their Rivers Trust colleague Seren Patterson. Steve is the trees and woodland advisor in the Southwest of England for the National Trust, Eva works as head of communication and education for the Beaver Trust, and Seren is the woodlands for water project lead at The Rivers Trust. A collection of true tree lovers all working hard to plant more and protect those that we have, discuss their respective projects and the myriad of benefits that trees have on our rivers, wildlife, and environment. The team also chat about the complexities of tree planting, the best ways to get involved, and their favourite tree species. If you are looking for a good way to round off national tree week, then look no further and give this episode a listen! Don't forget to tell us what your favourite tree is below! Learn more about our Woodlands for Water project Visit the Beaver Trust website Visit the National Trust website Find out more about 'The Tree in My Garden' by Kate Bradbury - the book recommended by Eva

Time to awaken the POWER within yourself!  don't be afraid of your own power...  and use it for the highest good of everyone I am you Magdala   To buy her new book 'The Tree of Life Teachings' or to write to her or to join her school online or to find more of her writings and books, please visit her personal website: www.magdalas.com  

Dr. Hans Utter joins Sean again on Wake the Dead to continue their series on the Qliphoth/Tree of Death. Hans has done further research and shares what he has gleaned from the text 'The Tree of Death & the Qliphoth' by Jhon Gee. A very interesting book which reveals the Qliphoth to be the same tree as the Tree of Life only viewed from a different perspective. The Qabalistic Tree of Life is a luminous veneer disguising the ancient Qliphothic system of magic. We are taught that the Tree of Death is the inversion of the Tree of Life. Hans shows us this is an obfuscation. Qabalism is the fundamental structure and the basis for most systems of magick. This obfuscation is yet another example of Satanic inversion and occultation of the truth. Enslaving orders of ceremonial magick under the banner of the oldest religion. Society's ignorance feeds the fires of Moloch. The Tree of Death is a map for enslaving humanity. Please enjoy the show. link to download the book discussed on the episode: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=0EA0E08119AD107815B9D04B1B89035D Find Hans' work here: http://hansutter.com/ https://mindcontrolmusic.wordpress.com/ please donate to WTD: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/seanmccannabis visit WTD's online store: https://www.storefrontier.com/wakethedead

Guided meditation 'The Tree' combined with a creative task.

During holiday periods, we occasionally revisit past podcasts, and this week, prompted by the announcement that Andrew Nethsingha will be succeeding James O'Donnell as Organist and Choirmaster of Westminster Abbey, we return to a conversation from November last year. Editor Martin Cullingford was joined by Andrew, Director of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge to discuss the choir's new album on Signum, 'The Tree' - as well as the recent announcement that the choir will soon welcome female voices for the first time in its history. 

Welcome back to the Season 2 premiere of Neurotech Pub!In this episode, host and Paradromics CEO Matt Angle sits down with fellow Founder/CEOs Carolina Aguilar, Brian Pepin, and Kunal Ghosh to talk shop about building cutting edge neurotech companies from the ground up. We dive deep into business strategies, the neurotech fundraising landscape, emerging therapeutics, and more. We also provide an insider's view of the intersections of data, pharma, and med devices that are shaping the future of healthcare. Pour yourself a cold one and settle in! Check out full video with transcript here: Check out video and a full episode transcript here. 00:00 | Updates & News >> INBRAIN Neuroelectronics raised a $17M Series A >> Rune Labs raised a $22.8 Million Series A >> Inscopix Launched Cloud-Based Platform for Data Management and Analysis2:15 | Meet the panel and pick up a book1:54 | Jester King Brewery  2:25 | Rune Labs  2:50 | Neurostimulator for deep brain stimulation therapy  3:23 | INBRAIN Neuroelectronics  4:11 | Inscopix  5:24 | Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed'  6:19 | Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'  6:32 | Daniel G. Miller's 'The Tree of Knowledge'  6:40 | Jiddu Krishnamurti's 'The Book of Life'  7:34 | Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land,' ‘Dreams from my Father,' & ‘The Audacity of Hope'  7:56 | Karl Popper's 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'9:25 | Venture Capital in Neurotech34:44 | Business Strategy in Neurotech40:32 | Tom Oxley, CEO, Synchron  43:58 | Dr. Thomas Insel  44:06 | Mindstrong Mental Health Care  44:35 | Aduhelm controversy  52:25 | Galvani Bio  59:39 | Percept Neurostimulator  1:00:32 | Neuromodulation and the future of treating brain disease  1:07:21 | Software as a Medical Device FDA Guidance1:09:12 | State of Animal Model Systems1:14:28 | α-Synuclein in Parkinson's Disease  1:18:01 | Alto Neuroscience  1:18:36 | Flatiron Foundation  1:18:45 | Gaurdent Health  1:19:03 | Melanoma Trends & Rates1:21:41 | The Pharma-Data-Device Ecosystem 1:21:42 | Frank Fischer, Chairman of Neuropace  1:22:28 | Neurotech Pub Season 1, Episode 9  1:26:35 | Roche acquisition of Flatiron Health & merger with Foundation Medicine   1:27:12 | Companion Diagnostics  1:28:29 | Adhulem and PET imaging  1:29:09 | Resignations at the FDA over Alzheimer's Drug  1:29:32 | Derek Lowe's take on the Aducanumab Approval, FDA Committee Votes, Halting the Aducanumab Trials, & The FDA Advisory Committee Briefing Document on Aducanumab  1:31:39 | Donanemab receives breakthrough therapy designation in 2021  1:36:58 | Mapping the Frontal-Vagal Pathway  1:37:09 | The Human Connectome Project  1:40:07 | Teal Organizations and Holacracy  1:41:18 | Society for Neuroscience  1:44:37 | Affymetrix (Thermo Fisher Scientific)  1:44:39 | IlluminaWant more?Follow Paradromics & Neurotech Pub on Twitter  Follow Matt, Brian, Carolina, & Kunal on Twitter

In this episode, Grace and Taran recap Season 2 Episode 6, 'The Tree," with special guest, DM Fily (@dmfilly) The post ‘Raised By Wolves' Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: ‘The Tree' appeared first on PostShowRecaps.com.

This week, Finn, Uther & returning guest Ben MacGougan watch Alan Parker, Gerald Scarfe & Roger Waters' 'Pink Floyd's The Wall' (1982), a musical about growing up in the shadow of World War II, and Doug & Rob Walker's 'Nostalgia Critic's The Wall' (2019), a musical about not knowing a single fucking thing about how to review things.Some of the other films mentioned: 'Histoire(s) du Cinema', 'Neil Breen 5 Feature Film Retrospective', 'Drive My Car', 'Memoria', implicitly 'Suspiria' (2018), 'Saving Private Ryan', 'The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps', 'Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure', 'Super Mario Bros.', 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', 'Spawn', 'The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle', 'Tommy', 'Rock N Roll High School', The High Schools 'Musical', 'A Hard Day's Night', 'Quadrophenia', 'Help', 'Blubberella', 'Gummo', implicitlly 'Titane', 'Robocop', 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', 'Naked', 'Folding Ideas: Nostalgia Critic and The Wall', 'Shoah', 'A Brighter, Summer Day', 'Spirited Away', 'Your Name', 'Weathering with You', 'Song of the Sea', 'Prince of Egypt', 'An American Tail: Fievel Goes West', 'We're Back - A Dinosaur's Story', 'Balto' 'The Time Machine', 'Mars Needs Moms', 'Kickassia', 'Suburban Knights', 'To Boldly Flee', 'Batman Forever', 'Batman & Robin', 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer', 'Clueless', 'Yesterday', 'Birdemic', 'Men in Black II', 'The Amazing Bulk', 'Drive', 'Speed', 'Gravity', 'The Tree of Life', '2001: A Space Odyssey', '2010: The Year We Make Contact', The Planets 'of the Apes', 'Koyaanisqatsi', 'Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!', 'The Power of the Dog', 'Cousins', 'How to Meet Girls from a Distance', and 'Annette'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

King Arthur's festive merriment is disturbed by the revelation that someone has been stealing from his Treasury, and have left behind an unfortunate gift... Welcome to the 2021 Christmas Special, Part 4 of 4. Featuring 'The Hunting of the Wren' performed by Finnegan Tui. EPISODE NOTES: https://www.loreandlegend.co.uk/ AUDIO CREDITS: Lore & Legend Themes by Robert Bentall. “Hunting The Wren” performed by Finnegan Tui Written by Ian Lynch, John Murphy, Radie Peat, Cormac Dermody, Darragh Lynch Published by Beggars Music Limited Courtesy of Finnegan Tui Finnegan Tui https://www.instagram.com/finnegantui https://www.tiktok.com/@finnegantui https://twitter.com/FinneganTui https://www.youtube.com/c/FinneganTui https://www.facebook.com/FinneganTui Lankum http://lankumdublin.com/ https://lankum.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/LankumDublin Beggar Group Ltd. https://www.beggars.com/ 'Christmas Day' by Derek Fiechter on Album: Winter Wonderland 'Winter Festival' by Brandon & Derek Fiechter on Album: Christmas Land 'The Black Knight' by Brandon & Derek Fiechter on Album: Medieval Times 'Kitchen Hearth' by Brandon Fiechter on Album: Medieval Times 'The Dark Wanderer' by Brandon Fiechter on Album: Winter Whisperers 'King of the Pixies' by Brandon & Derek Fiechter on Album: Treefolk Brandon & Derek Feichter Music on: Bandcamp: https://calebhennessy.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calebhennessyscompositions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/slavetofreedom216/videos 'The Tree of Gold (Broceliande Forest)' by Caleb Henessey on Album: Pendragon 'The Empty Seat at the Round Table' by Caleb Henessey on Album: Pendragon Caleb Hennessy Compositions on: Bandcamp: https://calebhennessy.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calebhennessyscompositions YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/slavetofreedom216/videos Additional incidental music, background ambience and sound effects by multiple authors sourced from Freesound.org. ----------------------------------- || Keep up to date with the podcast by visiting www.loreandlegend.co.uk and following us on Facebook and Twitter. || Website: https://www.loreandlegend.co.uk || Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ofloreandlegend/ || Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ofloreandlegend --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/loreandlegend/message

For this week's Gramophone podcast, Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by Andrew Nethsingha, Director of the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge to discuss their new album on Signum, 'The Tree' - as well as the recent announcement that the choir will soon welcome female voices for the first time in its history. This week's Gramophone Podcast is produced in Association with Leipzig, the City of Music. 

In this week's episode, we take a look at which of Charles Darwin's theories were correct, and which were wrong.   Read our blog post Would you rather read about his biography? Click here: Charles Darwin. If the link doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser - https://wisuru.com/biography/charles-darwin/   Summary When I posted about Charles Darwin in several Facebook groups, many people argued that Darwin was a failure since many of his theories were disproved. As a kids, I liked monkeys, particularly the way they jump from one branch to another. Even my favorite god is the monkey god Hanuman (I have attached a picture of Hanuman below). So, when I learned about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, I immediately thought of him as a hero. So, even though I wasn't offended by people arguing that Darwin's theories have been disproved, I wanted to find out how much of it is actually true. So, I decided to create this (and the next episode) which focuses on finding out which of Darwin's theories are accepted today, and which are not. The Theories that Darwin got correct 1. Theory of Natural selection This is the theory of evolution that Darwin proposed [Citation 1]. He postulated that variations occur randomly in individuals among a species. If these variations are favorable, they help the organism survive and reproduce, and hence, these variations are passed on to the next generation. If they are not favorable, they are lost. Natural Selection is the name given to the combination of factors that automatically decide which organisms get to reproduce and which do not. 2. Anagenesis Anagenesis is just an extension of Natural Selection. It says that if a species continually evolves, then after several hundreds or thousands of generations, the resulting species would be completely different from the original species. Thus, the new species would have completely replaced the old species. In this case, the original species produces only one new species. There is no branching involved here. 3. Speciation In this concept, the old species does not change into just one new species, but many species. This can happen in species where different populations migrate to different environmentally diverse locations. These populations, facing different natural selection factors, evolve differently into different species after several generations. They wouldn't even be able to mate with each other. Darwin provided several evidence, from different fields, to support these theories. Moreover, the fossils we have obtained over the years prove that he was correct [Citation 2].   The Theories that Darwin got wrong 1. The concept of Gemmules Even though Darwin could tell that evolution happened due to the variations that occur in some individuals, he couldn't explain why these variations occurred. It became a big hole in his theory. So, to plug this hole, Darwin introduced the concept of Gemmules. He postulated that Gemmules were small particles shed by all cells in our bodies. Gemmules can grow into the cells from which they were originally shed, if provided with the required nutrition. These Gemmules accumulate in the genital organs. So, when two individuals of opposite sexes mate, a baby is formed from the Gemmules of the parents. However, this theory was proven wrong, when the concept of Genetics was invented. 2. Earth's age During Darwin's time, Europeans, who were mostly Christians, believed in Bible which said that the earth is 6,000 years old. But Darwin knew that 6,000 years weren't enough for life to originate and evolve to such an extent, that an intelligent species like human beings came to existence. So, when a Scottish engineer proposed that earth was actually 100 million years old, Darwin immediately sided with him. But Darwin was wrong, since the earth is actually more than 4.5 billion years old. 3. The Tree of Life Darwin imagined the evolution as a single tree, which he called 'The Tree of Life' [Citation 3]. You can see Darwin's sketch of the Tree of Life from 1837, below. Darwin thought that life would have originated from a single species, and eventually branched out into the innumerable species he saw then, like in a tree where a big branch branches out into several small branches and these small branches branch out into even smaller branches. But recent research shows that species not only breed within themselves, but also with other species. Thus, evolution can no more be thought of as a tree, instead, it should be thought of as a web. So, this is one more thing that Darwin got wrong. Next week, we will look at Charles Darwin's role in Eugenics.   Citations https://www.britannica.com/list/what-darwin-got-right-and-wrong-about-evolution https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zcqbdxs/revision/7 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/21/charles-darwin-evolution-species-tree-life Resources Picture of Hanuman - https://www.flipkart.com/god-god-s-large-hanuman-ji-modern-art-107/p/itmfehy26thtzbm8 Charles Darwin's drawing of the Tree of Life - By Charles Darwin - Page 36 of Notebook B: [Transmutation of species (1837-1838)]. 'commenced. . . July 1837'; from Darwin Online, Public Domain, Public Domain, Link Donation link Do you like our work and want to donate to us? You can do so by using this Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/wisuru Contact me Have some suggestions to share with us? Just tweet to us using our Twitter link: https://twitter.com/WisuruBiography

Readers around the world... admit it. We all have them. Those big, complicated, intimidating books that glare at us from our shelves, almost with an air of defiance, just daring us to take them down, dust them off, and you know... actually READ them. But for whatever reason, we haven't been able to get up the guts to do so... well, welcome to episode 31 of the Book XChange podcast, wherein America's favorite twin book nerds accept the challenge... not to read these books, you understand! Let's not get hasty. Merely to discuss those books that have to this point intimidated us enough to keep gathering dust on our shelves, rather than actually be cracked open. Why are Jude and John reluctant to take on some books, and which ones continue to deter them? Which ones have YOU yet to crack open? Come on, you know there's a list. We're sharing ours this time around, and trying to convince each other (or deter each other, as the case may be) to answer the call. This episode was brought to you by the color... YELLOW. BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE What Jude is currently reading/plans to read next: 'Chronicles,' Bob Dylan - 'Extraterrestrial,' Avi Loeb - What John is currently reading/plans to read next: 'The Tree of Man,' Patrick White - 'Machines in the Head: Selected Stories,' Anna Kavan - Books/Writers discussed in this episode: The 'Game of Thrones' series, George R. R. Martin - The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer - The work of Jane Austen and Henry James - 'War and Peace,' Leo Tolstoy - 'The Silmarillion,' J. R. R. Tolkien - 'City of God,' Augustine of Hippo - 'The Gulag Archipelago,' Alexander Solzhenitsyn - 'Bleak House,' Charles Dickens - The work of William T. Vollman - 'My Struggle,' Karl Ove Knaussgard - Planned next episode of the Book XChange podcast: Roughly aligning with the 4th of July weekend in the U.S., the Book XChange brothers will talk about books that somehow deal with freedom and independence - not just from the American perspective, but as a human ideal.

The Book XChange goes on safari for this, the 30th episode of the show... and discuss favorite or notable books that feature, or are about, animals. Once we got going on this topic, we realized how deep a rabbit hole (shout out to Richard Adams!) it is. Which makes sense, because if there's one thing that unites peoples of all times, places and cultures, it's a love for/fascination with our animal friends. There's a reason they are featured so heavily in our myths, cosmologies, religions and artistic efforts. How much do they really understand about us? Do animals have consciousness? culture? souls? values? How much do we really understand about them? From famous epics that pit man against beast to road novels with non-human companions - as well as non-fiction classics that aim to deepen our knowledge and appreciation for other species - this episode takes all of these fascinating topics on and more. Even fantastical creatures get their due... we're looking forward to having our listeners join us for this epic sojourn into the Animal Kingdom. Enjoy! BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE What John is currently reading/plans to read next: 'The Tree of Man,' Patrick White - TBD - What Jude is currently reading/plans to read next: 'Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy,' Jane Leavy - 'Solar Bones,' Mike McCormack - Books/Writers discussed in this episode: 'Moby ,' Herman Melville - 'Last Chance to See,' Douglas Adams - 'Travels with Charley,' John Steinbeck - 'Beyond Words: How Animals Think and Feel,' Carl Safina - 'The Whale Rider,' Witi Imihaera - The 'Game of Thrones' series, George R. R. Martin - 'The Peregrin,' J. A. Baker - 'The Soul of An Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness,' Sy Montgomery - 'Grief is the Thing With Feathers,' Max Porter - The 'Chronicles of Narnia' series, C. S. Lewis - 'Watership Down,' Richard Adams - The 'Dun Cow' books, Walter Wangerin - 'H is for Hawk,' Helen Macdonald - 'Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia,' Dennis Covington - 'Platero y Yo,' Juan Ramon Jimenez - 'Animal Farm,' George Orwell - 'The Dialogue of the Dogs,' - Miguel de Cervantes - Planned next episode of the Book XChange podcast: "Books We're Intimidated By" - the brothers discuss which books they've long thought about reading, but for whatever reason have lacked the courage or motivation to take on... an entire episode on books we HAVEN'T read? Yep, that's right... should be different, anyway!

In Part 4 of "The Little Grey Mouse", 'The Tree in the Rotunda', our curious heroine meets the second temptation provided by the Fairy Detestable in the castle of Prince Gracious. Help keep The Folktale Project ad-free by becoming a supporter on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/folktaleproject.

In this episode, I talk about Terrence Malick's 2011 film "The Tree of Life". This is a monumental and important film in my life. It's hard to describe what it's about because it's really about everything--the cosmos, childhood, death, life, nature,  and loss. The film is anchored by its focus on one family in 1950s Texas that is later rocked by unimaginable loss but added to this story is a collage of images that capture something as massive as the birth of the world and something as small as a child taking his first steps. Malick takes us all the way back to the time of the dinosaurs and transports us to what eternity or heaven might look like. I consider this  to be the greatest film of the 21st century so far. I make my case, provide information on the making of the film, and go deeply into everything about this film, sharing my own raw emotions and what the film makes me remember and what it makes me think and feel. This film is part of my soul. That's the only way I can put it. There are spoilers in this episode.Consider making this podcast sustainable by supporting it on Patreon.Subscribe to the Her Head in Films Newsletter.Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram.Original logo by Dhiyanah HassanFull Show Notes:My episode on Jonathan Glazer's "Birth"TMZ video of Terrence MalickVideo of Terrence Malick dancingLumia by Thomas WilfredTori Amos's performance of "Iieee"Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock"All My SourcesCriterion Collection edition of "The Tree of Life"The Runaway Genius (Vanity Fair) 

Legendary songwriter, singer and guitarist John Prine died Tuesday from complications of the coronavirus. He was 73. Prine's best-known songs include "Angel from Montgomery," "Paradise," "Sam Stone," and "Hello in There." Among the many people who recorded his songs are Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, and Bette Midler. Last year he was inducted into the Songwriting Hall of Fame. Terry Gross spoke to him in 2018 after the release of his album 'The Tree of Forgiveness,' his first album of new songs in 13 years. He was touring at the time, and had made a remarkable comeback from two bouts with cancer. We begin with rock critic Ken Tucker's salute to Prine.

It is a quiet week for new releases at the movie theatre, but that doesn't mean there aren't lots of movies to talk about. This week we've got reviews for five new releases including a few that have done the festival circuit. We have a dramedy starring Mark Duplass and Ray Romano in Paddleton. Speaking of funny, Stephen Merchant directs a biopic about former WWE wrestler Paige in Fighting with My Family. We are also reviewing three foreign films that are the art house picture The Tree of Blood, the gangster flick The Drug King and the heist comedy Yucatan. As always, we go down some rabbit trails and try to not derail the closing. We had a great time this week and we really hope you love the show. If you do enjoy it, please spread the word on social media and let other movie fans know about us.Reminder that you can now subscribe either to The Movie Breakdown feed (a subscription link is at the top right hand of this site) or on iTunes (if you enjoy the show, please help us by giving us a five star review).Four Star Rating:Paddleton ***½ (CS & SM)Fighting with My Family **½ (CS)The Tree of Blood ** (CS & SM)The Drug King ** (CS) & **½ (SM)Yucatan ** (CS) & **½ (SM)

Welcome to back to Double Feature, the IDS film podcast where the powers that be let us in a podcast booth to give you hot takes and maybe some lukewarm ones too. Generally speaking, faith-based films usually suck. More often than not, they tend to be pandering, flat and completely derivative. Filmmakers rarely have the courage to tackle the nuances of spirituality or look at the uglier sides of what it means to live a religious life. On this week's episode of Double Feature, hosts Annie Aguiar and Chris Forrester discuss two films that do: 2011's "The Tree of Life" and 2017's "First Reformed." "The Tree of Life," directed by Terrence Malick, stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain in an epic comparing a man's memory of growing up in 1950s Texas with the origins of the universe and life on Earth. "First Reformed," directed by Paul Schrader, follows the Reverend Ernst Toller — played by Ethan Hawke in a performance many say deserved an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor — as he wrestles with questions of faith and forgiveness after encountering a radical environmentalist.

Legendary scribe and sportscaster,Dr.M.Lee''Doc''Stanley Sr.,takes to the airwaves.,once again with his award winnng radio show,the iconic,'Sports In Depth'. 'The Tree Of Hope',Curalator and best friend of legendary three times manager of the year,baseball manager,the esteemed and legendary,the great ''Dusty'' Baker,the astute,George Santiago joins ,Melvin''Doc'' Stanley, renowned boxing scribeTaz ,basketball guru"JumpShot" Jonesy and Co-Host,''Dusty'', on this special weekday segment..Featuring boxing andbasketball. Gsantiagogoldenage@gmail.com/Donations to,'The Tree of Hope' can be sent to the Crystal Foundation. TRUSTINGOD ''There  are friendships and kinships.You are blessed if you have them both together.'' ''Or At All.'' ''Simple doesn't mean classless,money and fame doesn't mean class and character.'' ''It is good when you can learn from other peoples mistakes and sad when you don't learn from your very  own.'' ''Most people don't plan to die,they just do.'' ''What has to be done for you so often has to be done by you.''  Doc Stanley's Words Of Wit And Wisdom    

A bonus 4/20 episode, light up a joint and enjoy! We chat about slut shaming, the #metoo movement, gender roles in dating, why women want a powerful guy, and so much more! Sex Actually is a free form podcast that dives into honest convo about dating and relationships. Find full episodes on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocc5Mp7hk0mrKwVQuklVv9nlL4GzdBoT www.instagram.com/sexactuallypod

Songwriter John Prine has been making records for nearly 50 years. He’s won Grammys and Americana Music and Honors Awards, and over the years his avowed fans have included the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and modern-day collaborators like Brandy Carlile, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. On Friday, April 13th, Prine will release 'The Tree of Forgiveness,' his first album of new material in 13 years. For this week’s Scene cover story, contributor Marissa R. Moss spoke with Prine about the record, his career, his collaborators and more. On this week’s Scenecast, we invite Marissa in to talk about her story.

Matthew Sweet talks to Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat on a line to his home in France, about his career in film music in the week that sees the release of his latest score for Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'. Alexandre talk about his methodology of writing for film and about the importance of collaboration. The programme draws on scores for 'Le Plus Bel Age'; 'Girl with A Pearl Earring', 'The Beat My Heart Skipped'; ''Rust and Bone'; ''Philomena'; 'The Tree of Life'; 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'; 'Argo'; 'The Imitation Game'; 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'; ''The Fantastic Mr Fox'; 'Grand Budapest Hotel' and 'Isle of Dogs'. Alexandre also chooses this week's Classic Score.

Don Walker is renowned as one of Australia's best songwriters. In 2014 I spoke with him about music, his love of language and the challenge of moving from performing with Cold Chisel to being his own frontman. (The Perfect Crime tour)Don Walker is a notoriously private man.He just does not talk about the personal stuff. But he does talk about himself, about music and words and prose and work and Chisel and just about anything else you choose to throw at him.He speaks slowly, deliberately, and laughs with a quiet, low rumble. Don Walker is also very dry and very funny.Once a scientist who worked on Australia's F111 program, Don says he worked for a little while with "whatever modest skills I acquired in aerodynamic engineering. I can't say I was very good at it."Words matter to Don Walker and it's obvious that language is a great love for the man who has written some of Australia's most iconic rock songs, "I think my love of words, language and humour - which is very much part of it - comes not so much from reading but from listening to regional speech in Australia, listening to the way people talk.""I love the enormously intelligent use of language that you get in regional and grassroots Australia. I like to laugh and Aussies say stuff that makes me laugh all the time. I try and write in a way that's close to conversation, and the conversation that I know is the way that I talk, and the people around me whose company I enjoy, talk."Don Walker grew up in Grafton on the north coast of NSW and says there was little choice in radio listening, "Where I grew up there used to be two stations. 2NR was the ABC station on the north coast, and the local commercial station was 2GF. So 2GF was where you went for music; they didn't play any music on the ABC except for classical programs, so the music that was played on the local commercial station was the music we heard.""It was a peculiar kind of faux-country music; a lot of American stuff, but some Australian stuff, and in that curious period between Elvis and The Beatles. Elvis hit and then it all went quiet when he joined the army, but The Beatles hadn't happened yet, so there was a fallow period there where all sorts of wild and wonderful but now-forgotten things happened in music.""Last year, a mate of mine who grew up in the Wheatfields in WA told me he'd seen a movie called 'The Tree of Man' which I haven't seen but apparently it's the greatest movie of the last 10 years or so. In this movie he was shocked into that period of 1960 listening to commercial radio. He and a friend who worked in a record shop gathered three CDs of what was on the radio in that period and gave them to me. It's a real shock to listen to them because these are not songs that are widely played since, so to listen to three CDs of them now plunges me straight back to sitting on a verandah on a farm when I was 10 years old. It's wonderful stuff. 'Big Bad John', quite a bit of Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline."'Big Bad John' is one of my own musical memories so I suggest to Don that I could probably sing him all the words of it and throw in a bunch of bad trucking songs about the ghosts of little girls to boot."That's right!" laughs Don, "Six days on the road and I'm gonna see my baby tonight', or 'Wolverton Mountain', or 'From A Jack to a King', all that kind of stuff!"Our memories are strongly driven by sounds and smells and I suspect that as we get older, the guilty pleasures we have in music from years ago and may not have admitted to previously, are now songs that we love and will play loud in the car with the windows down, perhaps to the horror of our kids.Don Walker is one of Australia's most esteemed songwriters so of course I had to take the opportunity to try to get him to confess his musical sins to me."There's plenty of stuff that I can go back to and I'd only admit between you and I that at a certain stage I was very passionate about 'Blood, Sweat & Tears'. It is interesting to go back and listen to stuff now and see if it sounds as good as I thought it did at the time. 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' now sounds appalling! If you put on 'Bitches Brew' (Miles Davis) now, it sounds pretty good. So, there are examples like that, 'bad fashion' things that you do in any era.""I'm sure among the stuff I'm listening to and liking now there's some pretty horrible stuff. You're going to ask me what?"Yes. But Don isn't telling.I share with Don that I had recently played The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' in the car for my kids to listen to because I think it's one of those things that pre-dates my own record collection but still sounds wonderful. Indeed, 'Pet Sounds' was released in the year of my birth. So even if the lyrics are a bit cheesy, if something was beautifully recorded and produced does it redeem it somewhat for him?"Well, you can't dismiss something just because it has cheesy lyrics, any more than you can dismiss something because it has cheesy music. Often in those combinations there's treasure.""But The Beach Boys, I never got it, or I never bothered. I think because when I was young, nobody in the band could actually play - nobody could do a solo - and when I was 20 or 25 that was important. But I've been doing a lot of long car trips over the last few years and a couple of years ago I bought a 'Best of The Beach Boys' and listened to it and started to wake up as to why so many of my musical friends are fanatical Beach Boys fans. Not so much musicians, but people in the music business, radio people and music journalists. I started to get it, to realise that this wasn't just another pop group, there's actually something unique and extraordinary that's happened here and everyone else is just imitators. I kinda knew that, but I never got it myself. Now I do."Don Walker is perhaps best known as Cold Chisel's main songwriter and through that band gave Australian rock music fans a new voice. With 40 years of songwriting under his belt, does the legacy of songs like Khe Sanh - released in 1978 - weigh on him?"Well, it's nice! There's a good living in that kind of thing. But once songs like that go out and are adopted by people as part of that canon of what they like to listen to, then it becomes a little bit remote to me.""The last five years or so, occasionally, I've done Khe Sanh myself with just piano, but that sounds utterly different so I can kind of own that again. It becomes a story with some chords, but it doesn't sound remotely like Jim (Barnes) and Cold Chisel on the radio because I can't sing like that. I'm very proud of it. We were a bunch of young guys and we did some good stuff. It's good that people like that and it holds up decades later, but it's a little bit remote from my daily life.""I didn't sing Khe Sanh originally. I just wrote it and showed it to the other guys in the band. Jim's been singing it as an integral part of what he does live, but not me. Neither are any other Cold Chisel songs. It's just in the last few years I started doing this other version of it. I wasn't avoiding it in all that time, it's just that it's not something that sounds like what I do, and it's not the way that I sound when I sing.""With such a song that's as widely loved as that, if I get up and sing it somebody might yell out, 'That's not how it goes!' he laughs, "The other thing is it's got a lot of words and everybody else knows them better than I do so what if you get half way through and you get stuck?!"In 2009, Don released his book 'Shots' - a collection of short autobiographical pieces. Reading 'Shots' reminded me of the way Leonard Cohen uses words, but Leonard Cohen makes me wonder just which words are lies."I don't think songwriters lie, but they certainly make stuff up. Is that lying? It's an essential part of songwriting.""Many years ago I was listening to someone do an interview with Paul Kelly, and they were digging in way beyond, 'What comes first, mate, the lyrics or the music?', they were digging in to just what happens and how do you come up with lyrics,""Paul said, 'I make stuff up.' I burst out laughing, I thought that was brilliant. Of course, you make stuff up. Is that lying? Yes, definitely. Sometimes it can tip over if you pretend it's the truth. So if me or Laughing Lenny write something that is not fiction but purporting to be a factual account, but that tips over into something that didn't actually happen, well ... you're on the edge."Where does Don Walker place the Canadian wordsmith, Leonard Cohen?"The big attraction for Leonard Cohen, and like The Beach Boys I've become a Leonard Cohen fan late in life - never took much notice of him before the last five or ten years but the big attraction is his humour. I don't think anything has got much legs if it hasn't got humour. You can look around and look at all the recording artists in history and divide the ones who have humour from the ones who don't. And that's a pretty profound thing, that really sorts them out, and Leonard Cohen is one of the funniest people out there, and one of the driest in his lyrics. And that's why now, late in life, I buy every Leonard Cohen album."Jimmy Barnes, of course, has deflected a lot of the heat of Cold Chisel's success from the rest of the band, but after Chisel disbanded Don Walker has put himself up front."It's never all about me, even when you're up there in front of a band. It's about the songs and the story. You're trying to put that over and connect. You're trying to whisper in the ear of everybody who's listening, whether you've recorded something that's being played on the radio or if you're playing a big show and there's thousands of people there. It's just one person trying to communicate to one other, and in some situations there's a lot of 'one other'. It's not about 'you', the person standing up there.""The fascist thing about it is that people can't talk back," laughs Don, "And for people in our position, the beautiful thing."I find it interesting to think about how songwriters see their own work given how precious it can sometimes become to others. To fans. To listeners. We listen, we love, we lose. We perhaps get married to the words in these songs. Live our lives through them. Die. We carry them with us and consider which of them we'd rescue from our burning house or take to a desert island. But how does the songwriter, the storyteller, see them?Don chips me about just wanting to ask what his favourite song is, but I think it's more complex than that and he concedes it's difficult to answer."There's a lot of stuff over the decades and I don't think of them as valuable or otherwise. Although there's a few things I've written that I would regard as 'value-less', but I'm not going name them. I admire people who use their songs to help people - that has value - but the songs I value most often have no correlation between how good a song is in my eyes and how well-known it is or how much money it's made or anything like that. It's not an inverse correlation either.""Probably one of the most - in my heart - beautiful songs I've ever written I wrote about 15 years ago - at the turn of the century! When I wrote it I thought, 'This is going to be massive all over the world because it's such a beautiful song', and I wrote it about a personal situation but it was universal, it had what I thought was a beautiful melody, it was simple, and it had everything that I thought was good about songcraft. And yet, everybody who heard it in the publishing world acknowledged how good it was but I couldn't get it recorded.""So that's what I'd call one of the top five songs that I'm proud of and yet nobody knew about it for 13 years.""But Missy Higgins has just recorded it and done a stunning version of it (The Way You Are Tonight) and now people are hearing it. In the meantime, there's a lot of other songs I've written that are enormously popular and have been all over the airwaves that I didn't think were nearly as good."Don Walker is a storyteller, but are there stories he hasn't been able to get out yet?"Yes, yes there are. There are things like that that have hung around in the back of my head for a long time, but they're difficult to describe because describing them will be in the song or in the prose writing and I haven't figured out a way of doing that yet. Where they live now is in pictures and movies and landscapes and feelings and maybe a few scraps of words."How does he know when the song is done? When the words are finished? When to stop and leave it alone?"You just know. It's like a big bell goes off. 'This is right now.' And it's something that is the same with a piece of prose writing. I can't explain that but I utterly know when something's right. At the same time, the reverse side of that is that you utterly know when something is not right. But knowing it's not right doesn't mean that you know how to get to where the bell goes off. I've put things out without waiting for the bell to go off, when they're not quite right but good enough."Will he tell me what they are?"No. But there's an internal thing that defies all logic. Surely, all of these things are subjective. What is right to one person is not right to another, but there is something in me - and I know it exists in others - where it's not a subjective thing, there's an utter certainty when something is right. And a nagging, cold dissatisfaction and itch when it's not."Meanwhile, after a 40-year career in the music industry, Don Walker is still touring large shows with a full band, and smaller intimate shows to just a few dozen people."The beauty of doing things like that is to deliberately put myself in a situation where I didn't know if I could pull it off and I had to do some work. I had to do a lot of preparation and figure out a lot of things I hadn't had to figure out before to make a show of that length work with just me and the piano."I suggest that to do so is gutsy."It's not so much the size of the audience. It doesn't really matter. It's what's going on onstage. In that situation I have no band and nothing to hide behind. So I have to make it work with those few tools. That's confronting. I did a night in Nundle and it worked. The night I did in Mayfield, the first set didn't work. I just couldn't make it work. The second set worked and everybody got it and we all had a good time.""I'm hoping that they didn't feel like it was a waste of their time. That they're thinking, 'That was a worthwhile thing to do'. That's what I'm wishing and hoping for. People's time and attention is valuable and if you're going to use it up you've got to do something worthwhile, make it work, and try and figure out a way of transporting them into the stories.""Sometimes you don't manage that and if you don't manage that, well that's a failure and instead of transporting them somewhere, you've seat-belted them into a dark little room for an hour when they could have been enjoying themselves."When all is said and done, what does Don Walker feel he's gotten right?"The things that I've done right have nothing to do with music because they're far more fundamental things than that, and they're not public things. There haven't been many of them and there's a lot of things I've done wrong. But they're the things in the end.""While I've been doing this interview, I've got a call from my daughter. It's in that world where you really succeed or fail. If there's a couple of things I like myself for, it's in that world."And with that, I encourage Don Walker to go and call his daughter.Tracks: Choir Girl, Hully Gully, Khe Sanh, Pool, The Way You Are Tonight (Missy Higgins version), Saturday Night.

Don Walker is renowned as one of Australia's best songwriters. In 2014 I spoke with him about music, his love of language and the challenge of moving from performing with Cold Chisel to being his own frontman. (The Perfect Crime tour)Don Walker is a notoriously private man.He just does not talk about the personal stuff. But he does talk about himself, about music and words and prose and work and Chisel and just about anything else you choose to throw at him.He speaks slowly, deliberately, and laughs with a quiet, low rumble. Don Walker is also very dry and very funny.Once a scientist who worked on Australia's F111 program, Don says he worked for a little while with "whatever modest skills I acquired in aerodynamic engineering. I can't say I was very good at it."Words matter to Don Walker and it's obvious that language is a great love for the man who has written some of Australia's most iconic rock songs, "I think my love of words, language and humour - which is very much part of it - comes not so much from reading but from listening to regional speech in Australia, listening to the way people talk.""I love the enormously intelligent use of language that you get in regional and grassroots Australia. I like to laugh and Aussies say stuff that makes me laugh all the time. I try and write in a way that's close to conversation, and the conversation that I know is the way that I talk, and the people around me whose company I enjoy, talk."Don Walker grew up in Grafton on the north coast of NSW and says there was little choice in radio listening, "Where I grew up there used to be two stations. 2NR was the ABC station on the north coast, and the local commercial station was 2GF. So 2GF was where you went for music; they didn't play any music on the ABC except for classical programs, so the music that was played on the local commercial station was the music we heard.""It was a peculiar kind of faux-country music; a lot of American stuff, but some Australian stuff, and in that curious period between Elvis and The Beatles. Elvis hit and then it all went quiet when he joined the army, but The Beatles hadn't happened yet, so there was a fallow period there where all sorts of wild and wonderful but now-forgotten things happened in music.""Last year, a mate of mine who grew up in the Wheatfields in WA told me he'd seen a movie called 'The Tree of Man' which I haven't seen but apparently it's the greatest movie of the last 10 years or so. In this movie he was shocked into that period of 1960 listening to commercial radio. He and a friend who worked in a record shop gathered three CDs of what was on the radio in that period and gave them to me. It's a real shock to listen to them because these are not songs that are widely played since, so to listen to three CDs of them now plunges me straight back to sitting on a verandah on a farm when I was 10 years old. It's wonderful stuff. 'Big Bad John', quite a bit of Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline."'Big Bad John' is one of my own musical memories so I suggest to Don that I could probably sing him all the words of it and throw in a bunch of bad trucking songs about the ghosts of little girls to boot."That's right!" laughs Don, "Six days on the road and I'm gonna see my baby tonight', or 'Wolverton Mountain', or 'From A Jack to a King', all that kind of stuff!"Our memories are strongly driven by sounds and smells and I suspect that as we get older, the guilty pleasures we have in music from years ago and may not have admitted to previously, are now songs that we love and will play loud in the car with the windows down, perhaps to the horror of our kids.Don Walker is one of Australia's most esteemed songwriters so of course I had to take the opportunity to try to get him to confess his musical sins to me."There's plenty of stuff that I can go back to and I'd only admit between you and I that at a certain stage I was very passionate about 'Blood, Sweat & Tears'. It is interesting to go back and listen to stuff now and see if it sounds as good as I thought it did at the time. 'Blood, Sweat & Tears' now sounds appalling! If you put on 'Bitches Brew' (Miles Davis) now, it sounds pretty good. So, there are examples like that, 'bad fashion' things that you do in any era.""I'm sure among the stuff I'm listening to and liking now there's some pretty horrible stuff. You're going to ask me what?"Yes. But Don isn't telling.I share with Don that I had recently played The Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds' in the car for my kids to listen to because I think it's one of those things that pre-dates my own record collection but still sounds wonderful. Indeed, 'Pet Sounds' was released in the year of my birth. So even if the lyrics are a bit cheesy, if something was beautifully recorded and produced does it redeem it somewhat for him?"Well, you can't dismiss something just because it has cheesy lyrics, any more than you can dismiss something because it has cheesy music. Often in those combinations there's treasure.""But The Beach Boys, I never got it, or I never bothered. I think because when I was young, nobody in the band could actually play - nobody could do a solo - and when I was 20 or 25 that was important. But I've been doing a lot of long car trips over the last few years and a couple of years ago I bought a 'Best of The Beach Boys' and listened to it and started to wake up as to why so many of my musical friends are fanatical Beach Boys fans. Not so much musicians, but people in the music business, radio people and music journalists. I started to get it, to realise that this wasn't just another pop group, there's actually something unique and extraordinary that's happened here and everyone else is just imitators. I kinda knew that, but I never got it myself. Now I do."Don Walker is perhaps best known as Cold Chisel's main songwriter and through that band gave Australian rock music fans a new voice. With 40 years of songwriting under his belt, does the legacy of songs like Khe Sanh - released in 1978 - weigh on him?"Well, it's nice! There's a good living in that kind of thing. But once songs like that go out and are adopted by people as part of that canon of what they like to listen to, then it becomes a little bit remote to me.""The last five years or so, occasionally, I've done Khe Sanh myself with just piano, but that sounds utterly different so I can kind of own that again. It becomes a story with some chords, but it doesn't sound remotely like Jim (Barnes) and Cold Chisel on the radio because I can't sing like that. I'm very proud of it. We were a bunch of young guys and we did some good stuff. It's good that people like that and it holds up decades later, but it's a little bit remote from my daily life.""I didn't sing Khe Sanh originally. I just wrote it and showed it to the other guys in the band. Jim's been singing it as an integral part of what he does live, but not me. Neither are any other Cold Chisel songs. It's just in the last few years I started doing this other version of it. I wasn't avoiding it in all that time, it's just that it's not something that sounds like what I do, and it's not the way that I sound when I sing.""With such a song that's as widely loved as that, if I get up and sing it somebody might yell out, 'That's not how it goes!' he laughs, "The other thing is it's got a lot of words and everybody else knows them better than I do so what if you get half way through and you get stuck?!"In 2009, Don released his book 'Shots' - a collection of short autobiographical pieces. Reading 'Shots' reminded me of the way Leonard Cohen uses words, but Leonard Cohen makes me wonder just which words are lies."I don't think songwriters lie, but they certainly make stuff up. Is that lying? It's an essential part of songwriting.""Many years ago I was listening to someone do an interview with Paul Kelly, and they were digging in way beyond, 'What comes first, mate, the lyrics or the music?', they were digging in to just what happens and how do you come up with lyrics,""Paul said, 'I make stuff up.' I burst out laughing, I thought that was brilliant. Of course, you make stuff up. Is that lying? Yes, definitely. Sometimes it can tip over if you pretend it's the truth. So if me or Laughing Lenny write something that is not fiction but purporting to be a factual account, but that tips over into something that didn't actually happen, well ... you're on the edge."Where does Don Walker place the Canadian wordsmith, Leonard Cohen?"The big attraction for Leonard Cohen, and like The Beach Boys I've become a Leonard Cohen fan late in life - never took much notice of him before the last five or ten years but the big attraction is his humour. I don't think anything has got much legs if it hasn't got humour. You can look around and look at all the recording artists in history and divide the ones who have humour from the ones who don't. And that's a pretty profound thing, that really sorts them out, and Leonard Cohen is one of the funniest people out there, and one of the driest in his lyrics. And that's why now, late in life, I buy every Leonard Cohen album."Jimmy Barnes, of course, has deflected a lot of the heat of Cold Chisel's success from the rest of the band, but after Chisel disbanded Don Walker has put himself up front."It's never all about me, even when you're up there in front of a band. It's about the songs and the story. You're trying to put that over and connect. You're trying to whisper in the ear of everybody who's listening, whether you've recorded something that's being played on the radio or if you're playing a big show and there's thousands of people there. It's just one person trying to communicate to one other, and in some situations there's a lot of 'one other'. It's not about 'you', the person standing up there.""The fascist thing about it is that people can't talk back," laughs Don, "And for people in our position, the beautiful thing."I find it interesting to think about how songwriters see their own work given how precious it can sometimes become to others. To fans. To listeners. We listen, we love, we lose. We perhaps get married to the words in these songs. Live our lives through them. Die. We carry them with us and consider which of them we'd rescue from our burning house or take to a desert island. But how does the songwriter, the storyteller, see them?Don chips me about just wanting to ask what his favourite song is, but I think it's more complex than that and he concedes it's difficult to answer."There's a lot of stuff over the decades and I don't think of them as valuable or otherwise. Although there's a few things I've written that I would regard as 'value-less', but I'm not going name them. I admire people who use their songs to help people - that has value - but the songs I value most often have no correlation between how good a song is in my eyes and how well-known it is or how much money it's made or anything like that. It's not an inverse correlation either.""Probably one of the most - in my heart - beautiful songs I've ever written I wrote about 15 years ago - at the turn of the century! When I wrote it I thought, 'This is going to be massive all over the world because it's such a beautiful song', and I wrote it about a personal situation but it was universal, it had what I thought was a beautiful melody, it was simple, and it had everything that I thought was good about songcraft. And yet, everybody who heard it in the publishing world acknowledged how good it was but I couldn't get it recorded.""So that's what I'd call one of the top five songs that I'm proud of and yet nobody knew about it for 13 years.""But Missy Higgins has just recorded it and done a stunning version of it (The Way You Are Tonight) and now people are hearing it. In the meantime, there's a lot of other songs I've written that are enormously popular and have been all over the airwaves that I didn't think were nearly as good."Don Walker is a storyteller, but are there stories he hasn't been able to get out yet?"Yes, yes there are. There are things like that that have hung around in the back of my head for a long time, but they're difficult to describe because describing them will be in the song or in the prose writing and I haven't figured out a way of doing that yet. Where they live now is in pictures and movies and landscapes and feelings and maybe a few scraps of words."How does he know when the song is done? When the words are finished? When to stop and leave it alone?"You just know. It's like a big bell goes off. 'This is right now.' And it's something that is the same with a piece of prose writing. I can't explain that but I utterly know when something's right. At the same time, the reverse side of that is that you utterly know when something is not right. But knowing it's not right doesn't mean that you know how to get to where the bell goes off. I've put things out without waiting for the bell to go off, when they're not quite right but good enough."Will he tell me what they are?"No. But there's an internal thing that defies all logic. Surely, all of these things are subjective. What is right to one person is not right to another, but there is something in me - and I know it exists in others - where it's not a subjective thing, there's an utter certainty when something is right. And a nagging, cold dissatisfaction and itch when it's not."Meanwhile, after a 40-year career in the music industry, Don Walker is still touring large shows with a full band, and smaller intimate shows to just a few dozen people."The beauty of doing things like that is to deliberately put myself in a situation where I didn't know if I could pull it off and I had to do some work. I had to do a lot of preparation and figure out a lot of things I hadn't had to figure out before to make a show of that length work with just me and the piano."I suggest that to do so is gutsy."It's not so much the size of the audience. It doesn't really matter. It's what's going on onstage. In that situation I have no band and nothing to hide behind. So I have to make it work with those few tools. That's confronting. I did a night in Nundle and it worked. The night I did in Mayfield, the first set didn't work. I just couldn't make it work. The second set worked and everybody got it and we all had a good time.""I'm hoping that they didn't feel like it was a waste of their time. That they're thinking, 'That was a worthwhile thing to do'. That's what I'm wishing and hoping for. People's time and attention is valuable and if you're going to use it up you've got to do something worthwhile, make it work, and try and figure out a way of transporting them into the stories.""Sometimes you don't manage that and if you don't manage that, well that's a failure and instead of transporting them somewhere, you've seat-belted them into a dark little room for an hour when they could have been enjoying themselves."When all is said and done, what does Don Walker feel he's gotten right?"The things that I've done right have nothing to do with music because they're far more fundamental things than that, and they're not public things. There haven't been many of them and there's a lot of things I've done wrong. But they're the things in the end.""While I've been doing this interview, I've got a call from my daughter. It's in that world where you really succeed or fail. If there's a couple of things I like myself for, it's in that world."And with that, I encourage Don Walker to go and call his daughter.Tracks: Choir Girl, Hully Gully, Khe Sanh, Pool, The Way You Are Tonight (Missy Higgins version), Saturday Night.

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