6 episodes

This podcast is a retirement project and maybe ... for the listener steeped in the controversies of modern culture and dire news reports ... something different. An eclectic collection of texts, chosen only for two reasons: I encountered them at some stage in my life and they endured for me, continuing to challenge me or delight me or, most often, doing both.

You won't find audio book perfection here. I am most decidedly not a 'voice' professional. I am just a lover of ideas, both bright and dark, of stories, and of how the well-written word married with the human voice can touch us.

Reading for Joy Heather Barfoot

    • Arts

This podcast is a retirement project and maybe ... for the listener steeped in the controversies of modern culture and dire news reports ... something different. An eclectic collection of texts, chosen only for two reasons: I encountered them at some stage in my life and they endured for me, continuing to challenge me or delight me or, most often, doing both.

You won't find audio book perfection here. I am most decidedly not a 'voice' professional. I am just a lover of ideas, both bright and dark, of stories, and of how the well-written word married with the human voice can touch us.

    Selected poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part II

    Selected poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part II

    Wisdom, beauty, life - the poet's words.

    • 9 min
    Ch. 1 - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

    Ch. 1 - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

    Conway's life-changing adventure begins.

    • 33 min
    Prologue - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

    Prologue - Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933)

    As prologues do, this chapter sets the scene. It's the origin story, so to speak.

    • 40 min
    Selected Poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part I

    Selected Poems by Kahlil Gibran - Part I

    A source of joy: Discovering ... rediscovering ... poetry.

    • 2 min
    The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

    The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson

    I received a collection of Andersen's Fairy Tales for "Christmes 1965", as my 9-year-old self wrote in the flyleaf. The book has traveled with me throughout my life and it will be a joy to revisit some of these stories again. This one had to be the first. Reading shapes us and this story became part of my story.

    • 7 min
    Reading for Joy (Trailer)

    Reading for Joy (Trailer)

    • 59 sec

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