The Heart Burn, with Doug Harrison

For two decades Kim has been Skipping the Life Fantastic. She has some exuberant ideas and advice on how we can find ourselves moving from lou to lou rather than from drudgery to dirge. This doesn’t mean mindless skipping past the hard stuff but freely skipping through it. Intrigued?

Abraham Burickson is the Artistic Director of Odyssey Works, a unique art collaboration that produces transformational artistic experiences for the one person on whom they are based.  Abe has passionate and thoughtful words on the primacy of experience over form, the vocation of an Artist, and experiencing "Flow"

Abe Burickson and his Asst. Director will be in Austin October 12-13

Laurie Eiserloh is a lawyer and Activist and as it happens, was a key player in some of the work that furthered LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Episcopal church, which consequentially impacted other national issues of inclusion.  This might tell you about some of her accomplishments, but what most people will tell you about her has more to do with her character and her genuine sense of neighborliness, love, and good citizenship than any single claim to influence. Listen to this for the knowledge of recent important historical events, but listen with your heart for the good of your soul.

IN part two Laurie talks about he own spirituality and what it is like to get through the uncertain times. 

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Laurie Eiserloh is a lawyer and Activist and as it happens, was a key player in some of the work that furthered LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Episcopal church, which consequentially impacted other national issues of inclusion.  This might tell you about some of her accomplishments, but what most people will tell you about her has more to do with her character and her genuine sense of neighborliness, love, and good citizenship than any single claim to influence. Listen to this for the knowledge of recent important historical events, but listen with your heart for the good of your soul.  

In this Episode Laurie particularly emphasizes the importance of remaining in her community and in her church, with the threat of leaving, to be part of lasting change. 

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As Derin was preparing to leave college he wanted to do more than he felt he had necessarily prepared for with a double major in Spanish and Philosophy.  So the clever pleas of one of the graduate students appealed to his sense fo giftedness as well as his sense of purpose.  They also led hi down a path that ended up being wildly off course from the truest sense of his self.  Now, years later, Derin shares his story again with me here at the Heart Burn.    

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It is not a popular choice to be part of organized religion right now, but for Melissa, it is a powerful one. Just her existence as an ordained pastor in a conservative denomination is an important part of her impact. But it barely scratches the surface or the real impact this woman has on people’s lives. Best of all she manages to shape how upper middle class white people see immigration by hosting opportunities to serve and meet immigrants. While she literally has a pulpit, she actually makes the biggest different because of who she is.