I don't know if you will, I don't know if you won't, listen to this episode... but you may!

Also, you may be a guest on bECOMING MAGIC. I would love to have you if you're vibin with this thing.

Ok, some citations:

Countrie Hoodlums on Instagram

Peter Rollins on YouTube

That's it. Now it's up to you, baby. May...

I dream of a future without any jobs. Nobody ever tellin' anybody else what to do. Instead, work and action that overflows from our hearts becoming free and connected to what we love.

A 'course it ain't set up like that quite yet. Maybe that's part of the problem: it's a little too set up, engineered, conjuncted to a profit margin.

But that's where we at ain't we. We's right about right here, we is. This is the world we live in.

And we love this ole world, don't we, do we yet? Even while it's still so stuck in the dark. (We can relate to that, eh!) But it's the same thing sets us as sets the world free.

Sets creativity free. Yeah baby. Now we're talkin'.

This episode we're talkin' with Sheri Yutzy. And she's doin' this thing! She's writin' books. She's sharing the gift that's been given to her!

I like that...sharing the gift that's being given to me (Oooh, present tense it up). Sharing the gift that's being given to you. How about that as a new definition of work?

Sheri's first book, The Seller of Secrets, is freshly out in the world. You can find it here.

Have a comment or question? Connect with me here.

Thank you for listening. And good luck out there.

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His dad was an alcoholic.

A lost sheep.

The bad guy.

That was the portrait of him painted by the conservative religious (Mennonite) culture that Charlie married into, and which was then framed and hung, as it were, on the wall over his son's childhood. Behold your dad.

In his book, Charlie's Boy, Justin travels back through time to his 12th summer, and he meets his dad all over again. Like, who is this guy? Who am I? And he looks this time with a little different eyes.

Eyes that aren't afraid to love his dad.

Under that kind of look, boy how his dad grows! He becomes a living, breathing, human being no frame could ever hold. Charlie steps out from the pages of the book, steps forth from his frame, a free man.

You can find Charlie's Boy here. Look for seller Stauffer and Sons.

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Song, in part, inspired by Stay In Your Lane by Courtney Barnett.

Hello! This one about how do we become more of who we are more and more grow in time and patience and persistence.

It goes a lot of places: What happens when we die? Is destiny a thing? What about God? Who dat, and what like?

We do some reading too: Moby Dick, Hermetic texts, the Gospel of Matthew.

Also, there's a special guest or two.

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Works Uncited

Fighting My Demons by Ken Carson (Where da fuck my blunt?)

Meant To Be by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line (If it's meant to be, it'll be.)

Tie Me Up! Untie Me! by mewithoutYou (I was looking at the leaves climbing to the tops of the trees...)

New Season of bECOMING MAGIC begins April 4.

Maryn Spangler returns to the show!

Why?

For an adventure in the Mary field.

What?

An energy field of Mary.

Mary who?

Mary.

How?

When?

Just listen when you’re ready, my friend.

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Episode art:

Etruscan sculpture (pre-Christian).

Branch from the stump of Jesse.

It's Struggle Bus Season, aka Advent, The Most Won— Difficult Time of the Year.

Drawing on Anthroposophy, Lisa Del Alba helps us cut through the Christmas clamor to enter a darker and deeper reality that is connected with why human souls choose to come to planet earth in the first place.

Special thanks to Melissa Ramer for the episode art! And special thanks to said art for inspiring the episode title. Take a moment with it, I suggest. It has some things to say.

WORKS CITED

The Depression Suite by The Tragically Hip

(The two little songs I sing are both from this song.)