This is a tribute interview – a tribute to those who travel this life with Huntington’s Disease. A tribute to Rolando, my guest Barbara Leistico’s husband. A tribute to those suffering from any disease.
It is a tribute to those who survive to see the light on the other end of their long day’s journey into night — and a prayer for this who won’t this time ’round.
I’m deeply grateful to Barbara’s sharing her intimate journey with me… and for her giving the green light — even with Daisy, who is not a poltergeist, digging her way through the living-room carpet… don’t worry — she stops after a bit. (then she starts up again / ha ha ha)
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This is a follow-up episode. Barry really wanted to be able to show his work. He expressed interest in wanting to do a follow-up…
And it makes sense to me:
The picture is worth ten thousand words.
So — i threw out the standard sitting down format that I’ve been working with for the past five seasons and we shot episode 47 Cinéma Vérité style. Besides; my quest is to find the rules that can’t be broken and live by them.
Barry may not agree, an artist’s work is very personal to them — yes? However, I think in the infinite energy of life, Barry reaches into the flow and pulls out a moment, maintaining the essence of the infinite and showing it in a caught moment. I especially see it with his dogmotion series — there is one image in particular that remains with me; communicating infinite life in motion.
However, art is best experienced for oneself. So I hope you enjoy this off the rule book episode 47.
And I recommend checking out all Barry’s works that he has online at: barrytoranto.com.
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Season Six opens with someone I am very fond of — he sets a fine example for me. I see in him a lot of the attributes I want to live strongly by; mostly Joy and Patience.
Needless to say, I am very heartened to be opening my sixth season with him as a guest.
This bio is from his website:
Photography intrigued me as a teenager, I attended my first workshop in 1973 at The Naples Mills School of Arts and Crafts near Ithaca, New York. My college career yielded a BA in photography from Goddard College in 1978 and included a semester at the San Francisco Art Institute.
My vision is to capture and express images that both embrace and reach beyond the here and now. Photography is an alchemical process – the subject is the raw material, the gold is an image that expresses universal truth beyond that subject, one that makes us think and remember, and ultimately, see the world in a new and different light.
I highly recommend you take a look at his work on his website: barrytoranto.com.
Welcome back to a new season of LWG. I hope you enjoy this year’s visits…
For the season finale of LWG, I had the honor to share time with September Williams, MD and Sarah E. Kornfeld. My words are going to fall short at this time to describe who they are and what our conversation was about. I can say it was at a telling time in US History as a new supreme court justice had been nominated and was going through the hearings involved with the confirmation process.
This was taped about a month ago and a lot has transpired since that taping. Besides an overall uplifting, what I recall that wonderful afternoon spent with September and Sarah, is the healing communication regarding the charged political event of that confirmation process — and the overall bravery I witnessed in both women.
Since words are falling short, or time and energy on my part, I am posting from their bios more about September & Sarah.
September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker. All of her work seeks a better understanding of and between ourselves. She focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. Yet, her writing is fired by the humor which allows people and characters to make it through hard times. Her first novel, and the first in a series of three books, is Chasing Mercury, a romance-suspense-memoir about families committed to human and environmental rights.
September’s nonfiction writing covers health disparities, bioethics and film. She is a member of the National Writers Union (AFLCIO/UAW 1981), an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. (She is also the founder of Cove International Publishers and published The Elephant In the Room: Bioethical Concerns in Human Milk Banking early last month.)
Sarah Kornfeld‘s experience with seizure, art and the ocean as medicine led her to write What Stella Sees, an adventure in magical realism in which all characters are forced to face creatures from their own depths. What Stella Sees, weaves a complex tale of love, art, and transformation spanning from San Francisco to Israel, Bucharest to Paris.
Kornfeld was born and raised in the experimental theater that is New York City. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has taught cultural curation at the University of San Francisco. Sarah is a founding member of the Blue Mind Collective studying the impact of the ocean on our lives and well-being.
Sarah is a proud member of the National Writers Union. She was published in The Journal of Brand Strategy out of the United Kingdom*. Her debut novel is published by Cove International Press. www.sarahkornfeld.net
…the more i discover about who i was in the room with — the more I realize what an honor it was that they shared their time with me. I hope you enjoy their company as well. And I hope to see you next year for season six of LWG.
I had the honor recently to spend time with one very near to my heart: Sequoia Chenoah Roane.
She is amazingly creative; an artist extraordinaire! She is immersed in exploring what Life is, a practitioner of Nature’s Wicca ceremonies…
I had some expectations for what we’d talk about and how things might go. Luckily, I was wrong—and therefore just had a wonderful piece of her time and energy.
I think the title of this episode really says everything there is to say about this episode… except that i would spend forever in the presence of my children if that was an option.
This episode is probably for me more so then anyone else…
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Aaron Wilker Warehouse & Distribution Logistics
I have been in the Distribution and Logistics industry for over twenty years, building and managing teams at all levels of warehouse distribution and logistics. I have management experience in Food Service Distribution and Manufacturing as well as Wholesale/Retail Distribution. My strength is in creating processes that will streamline operations, creating improved efficiencies, tighter inventory control and then teaching those processes to the entire team. I believe that a strong operations team, delivering the best customer service, is essential to the growth of a company.
The above is my brother’s professional bio. He is one of the most amazing minds I know in warehouse and distribution… and he is so much more then that.
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Terri Tate is a psychiatric nurse specialist and inspirational humorist. Terri was first diagnosed with disfiguring oral cancer in 1991, and is now a nationally recognized speaker and storyteller; a consultant who uses lessons from her own struggle to help support anyone facing life challenges; and a stand-up comedian with a popular one-woman show, Shopping as a Spiritual Path.
(From Terri Tate’s book, A Crooked Smile.)
It was an absolute pleasure to be in Terri’s company and hear her stories… this is one of my longest episodes I believe. For me, it wasn’t long enough. I hope I am honored with more of her presence.
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