Poetry, Gossip & The Pursuit of Pleasure With Dale Biron Dale Biron

3 Soul Talk Questions...
What's the price of feeling disconnected from our soul? Has that price become too high to pay? What language is needed for our soul conversation?

I recently published an article with a online publication on the Medium platform called "Better Humans." It’s turning out to be one of the most popular things I’ve published. At the heart of the article is our question for this episode, Can poetry make us less crazy?  The actual title went like this – How to Use Poetry to Live a Better, Saner, and Happier Life... What reading a million poems taught me about life! So for this week's episode, I would like to read the essay and make a few brief comments along the way.

What makes a good, or even great poem? How do you separate the  wheat from the chaff, providing yourself with the language you actually love and need for your life? Here's a simple roadmap to get you started...

What happens when hope must float in a sea of uncertainty, conflict, and loss? Can we create a more durable and resilient hope? A new fire-tested hope tethered to everyday joys, delights, and even tragedies along the way, a new hope tied not to a specific outcome but hope for doing the next right thing each step of the journey.

What in your life would you work for, sacrifice for, serve and protect? The answer, of course is what you love and cherish. What if we were to widen our loving and cherishing boundaries? And beyond our closest loved humans and critters. In fact beyond humans to the wider community of sacred beings and the sacred elements that all living beings need to thrive.

How much can we safely ignore poetry? That’s a real question and we’re going to fearlessly try to answer it in this episode. What’s at stake? I would say many things are at stake. Join me now...