In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Home”. Listen to them discuss what constitutes a home and the feelings that come up around the concept of home. Which nationalities and gender tend to own their homes? How can you Feng Shui your home to protect its Qi/Chi? What do stoics say about homes? There are some varied songs and poems by Rumi, Gibran, Mahmoud Darwish, Clive Gregson, Curly Putman and much more!

On Home by Khalil Gibran

https://poets.org/poem/children-1

Stoics on home

https://www.stoic-buddy.com/blog/the-household-stoic

https://viastoica.com/what-does-home-mean/

The Guest House By Rumi

Read by Helena Bonham Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShNYW2e5ecQ

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8534703-The-Guest-House-by-Mewlana-Jalaluddin-Rumi

Feng shui rules:

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/feng-shui-for-every-room-in-your-home

Homesickness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesickness#:~:text=Homesickness%20is%20the%20distress%20caused,on%20topics%20unrelated%20to%20home.

“ID Card” by Mahmoud Darwish Written in 1964

https://www.wrmea.org/2017-november-december/id-card-by-mahmoud-darwish-a-translation-and-commentary.html

Cultural differences in home ownership

https://homeandtexture.com/homeownership-different-countries/

https://medium.com/@cailiansavage1/why-the-richest-countries-have-the-lowest-home-ownership-rates-6dc202a9b81a

https://www.bundesbank.de/en/publications/research/research-brief/2020-30-homeownership-822176

If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, please send us an email at: wordsthatmakeus@gmail.com

Season 2, episode 15:

In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Sickness”. This promises to be an episode of fun discussions, varied readings of pain and hilarity, and a few statistics to boot! They discuss questions such as: why do men not go to the doctor’s? Can prayer really relieve pain? What poems, depressing and funny alike, have they found for you? And what are some funny stories doctors have told about patients? Also, what would Marcus Aurelius say about sickness if he was alive today?

Men don’t go to the doctor

Dr Gabor Mate on addiction

https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23606-what-ails-us

Tulips by Sylvia Plath

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49013/tulips-56d22ab68fdd0

Sick by Shel Silverstein

https://poets.org/poem/sick

Funny stories by doctors:

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-doctor-patient-stories/

Stoic response to sickness - an AI Marcus Aurelius response

https://www.stoicsimple.com/stoic-advice-on-health-problems-illness-ask-marcus-aurelius/#:~:text=Instead%20of%20dwelling%20on%20your,the%20natural%20order%20of%20things.

On Pain by Gibran Khalil Gibran

https://poets.org/poem/pain-1

Assisted suicide In Germany

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000135?form=fpf

https://www.dw.com/en/assisted-suicide-germany-weighs-autonomy-and-ethics/a-66111477

In sickness and in health

https://www.structuralheartjournal.org/article/S2474-8706(24)00034-4/fulltext

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.801752.de/diw_sp1110.pdf

Walking Around by Pablo Neruda

https://allpoetry.com/Walking-Around

If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, please send us an email at: wordsthatmakeus@gmail.com

In this episode of the "Words That Make Us" podcast, Rama and Tony discuss the topic of “Cake”. Listen to them as they discuss their cake eating and baking preferences all while discussing “Let them eat cake!” and why baking shows became so popular. Would you call the sweet little baked goodness Jaffa cake or biscuits? Why does it matter? And of course, here is some poetry in there for you!

No one said “Let them eat cake”!

https://www.britannica.com/story/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake

Betty Crocker cake mix story

https://cantrell.medium.com/the-myth-of-the-instant-cake-mix-a45aaac8b302

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/something-eggstra/

Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen

https://www.uv.mx/personal/jomartinez/files/2011/08/Chocolate-Cake.pdf

The most difficult cakes to make:

https://www.findcourses.co.uk/inspiration/hobby-fun-leisure-articles/how-to-make-the-worlds-most-difficult-cakes-17573

Simnel cake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simnel_cake

The Jaffa Cake Story

https://www.kerseys.co.uk/jaffa-cakes-cakes-biscuits/#:~:text=During%20the%20court%20battle%20between,recognised%20as%20chocolate%20covered%20cakes.

Cake idioms

https://www.ihpalermo.com/Cake-Biscuit-Idioms

https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/sisters_cake_605

Cake by Roger Mcgough

https://allpoetry.com/poem/14373247-Cake-by-Roger-McGough

If you have any ideas, suggestions or feedback, please send us an email at: wordsthatmakeus@gmail.com