Four Words for the ‘Opening Life’ Podcast
We just finished listening to the third episode of Opening Life, a podcast you can access through this web page. After enjoying the uniqueness of the first three episodes, we were challenged to take Kyle’s suggestion of describing a particular movie in four words. Here are the words my wife Mary and I would choose to describe ‘Opening Life’:
- Generational: Genuine voices from different sides of life’s spectrum. The energy and insight of youth are balanced with the consideration and reflection of experience.
- Story: The podcast is rooted in personal experience and personal connection to different works of art.
- Musical: The beautiful interludes as well as the lyrical undertone of the conversation make listening delightful.
- Personal: You feel like you are sitting around a table with a group of friends enjoying a lively discussion accompanied by your favorite beverage.
We hope you will listen to these podcasts and add your four words to the list as a comment here below!
Craig & Mary, Oct 2021
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Dear Craig, I really find your post encouraging, as the points that resonate with you were what Brittany and I were hoping for. We will try to keep learning as we go, so that these conversations are of help to people. Thanks very much for your participation and support!
My four words:
VULNERABLE.:
The individuals on the podcast give us an inward look into their own life experience as well as their own perceptions regarding the film, they thus make themselves vulnerable to how we might view them as we listen.
PARTICIPATORY:
Listeners are invited to actively consider their own inner responses to the dynamics of the film.
QUESTIONS
Nobody presents himself as an authority, everybody’s view is honored. Responses to questions which are posed leads naturally to more questions. There are layers. I find this dynamic to be part of the beauty of life.
ANTICIPATION:
Listening to the different “takes” on the film makes me want to watch it again and go deeper into what is happening in the film that I perhaps missed the first time.
My two+ words:
1. Kitchen-table informality – the informal conversational style invites me in to take a seat and feel more at home with otherwise difficult topics (eg. Miles Davis)
2. Helpful insights – listening to comments on the the movie Soul left me with a fresh curiosity about this film which on my first viewing did not engage me.
four words?
Breathingspace
Resonance
Fresh perspective … in the wider frame that other stories offer
– Authentic
– Honest
– Insightful
– Real Life
I listened to the ‘Soul’ episode of the podcast, having not really got on with the film (I found it overblown, uneven and the ‘life messages’ that did come across I didn’t feel were satisfactory . The podcast made me feel part of a very fair conversation about these things and a place where my own responses were valid.