HeyJaredThe Unclouded Hours Podcast
Grab a warm cuppa and make an unrushed plan to create rest in the month ahead, taking wisdom from the seasons. This podcast is a monthly pairing to the Unclouded Hours Substack, hosted by Diana M Smith, exploring ways to reclaim rest and creativity the thick of real life.
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Monthly Invitation to Rest Ep 14: Freedom (opens the original)
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In 1983, Toni Morrison writes, she was fired from her job. Or, she quit. ‘One or the other, or both.’ In any case, her employment ended after a good long run. Days later, she found herself sitting on her porch, which overlooked the Hudson River, with time on her hands. How many of us have longed for the day we might follow her footsteps out of the cold office and into the spaciousness of time to ourselves, to do what we yearn to do, to finally give time and attention to what we love. Toni Morris
Monthly Invitation to Rest Ep 13: Thoreau's experiment in simplicity (opens the original)
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Warmest greetings from a record-hot summer, Here in the midst of August — what in Europe is often simply referred to as ‘summer’ — some of us are on the road, in the air, holidaying somewhere other than home. In any season of the year, this is our most prolific image of what rest looks like in modern life. But is going away, having resources for an elaborate holiday, a prerequisite for replenishment? This month, we journey to the American north, just outside Concord, Massachusetts, with a man on
Monthly Invitation to Rest Ep 12: Pleasure (opens the original)
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The sun rises high over residential buildings crowded with ornate, iron-clad balconies, and from my 5th floor perch, I can see a few brave souls sitting at cafe tables below, sheltered by trees. Come evening, the city will spring to life with hanging lights and lanterns, and those tables will fill with vermouth and bubbling conversations. Here in Madrid, where I’m on a summer sabbatical, there is a daily dance of windows opening and closing; they begin wide open to the midnight air, then fully l
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