Creating Space for the Questions, with Martha Williams

Marrow and Pixie Dust: A Love Letter in Vignette, from Robin

In this episode, I try something new—voice noting you, the listener. I share about one texture of one layer of life that I’m in now, that is both deep realignment of energy and deep initiation, as I trust and follow my intuition and divine call through a new destined dark. I also share a recent poem, a guided imagining, a few notes of this Scorpio season, and an invitation for you to send a voice note back to me, if you’d like. I’d love to hear what this episode brings up for you, and what textures and thresholds you’re feeling into yourself in this large precipice of time. I really enjoyed sharing a love letter of sorts in this way, and I hope you enjoy listening. :) Thank you for joining me! I hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Voice Note Me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/voice.note.me.podcast?igsh=dGRldTZ6OWs0OG1w&utm_source=qr] Follow me, Robin, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/robin.bethel.lovesong/] ✨✨ You can also support my creative work on the show, if you'd like, by visiting here [https://buymeacoffee.com/robin.bethel.lovesong].

Poetry and Lovers, with Christian Winn

In this episode, I share voice notes with Christian Winn, a beautiful fiction writer and poet—and, also, my ex-boyfriend. After moving through romantic relationship together, we’ve come into the next destined thing, in friendship; and now, here, we’re using this space to talk of poetry and share poems we've written that are tangled up in the other. Christian had already heard the ones I share in this episode, but I hadn’t heard any of his, until now, except for one.  I feel into life as poem, and so: we can find poetry everywhere. And certainly, Christian and I find it in our past together and our present.  This was a meaningful episode to create, and I hope you enjoy listening.  If you'd like to connect further with Christian, you can find him at ChristianWinn.com [https://christianwinn.com] and on Instagram here [https://www.instagram.com/christianwinn/].  If you'd like to explore the other poets we shared, you can find Rumi's poem "The Guest House" here [https://onbeing.org/blog/the-hospitality-of-being-a-guest-house/] and Josh Booton's The Union of Geometry and Ash here [https://www.amazon.com/Union-Geometry-Booton-Josh-Paperback/dp/B01182AA4O/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.00wQXGlBojxpnLPBJeRfaQWe4X90ovQ0Qm9yePccgLnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.LI3lSuej8T4adu3hlNv2KlnZ_SkqMhOMfqv-0iTjL8o&dib_tag=se&qid=1760082713&refinements=p_27%3AJosh+Booton&s=books&sr=1-4&text=Josh+Booton#].  Thank you for joining me! I hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Voice Note Me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/voice.note.me.podcast?igsh=dGRldTZ6OWs0OG1w&utm_source=qr] Follow me, Robin, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/robin.bethel.lovesong/] ✨✨ You can also support my creative work on the show, if you'd like, by visiting here [https://buymeacoffee.com/robin.bethel.lovesong].

Creating Space for the Questions, with Martha Williams

In this episode, I spoke with Martha Williams, who is a writer and the director of programs and education at The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho. Martha and I met in the context of her work with The Community Library’s Ernest Hemingway legacy initiatives, and I was immediately struck with her grounded, deep presence. In this multi-week conversation, I was able to get to know her more and see further textures of presence, as we talked of her work, her writing, and her beloved walks through the woods; as we talked of poetry, community, this precipice of time, and the gift of allowing space—around ourselves as well as the civilization-defining questions we’ll be living into in the coming decades. I loved listening to Martha's spacious reflections, and I hope they meet you too with much goodness.  To learn more about the programs Martha helps facilitate at The Community Library, you can visit https://comlib.org/programs/ [https://comlib.org/programs/].  And you can read the poem she reflects on—“Spring,” by Mary Oliver—here: https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2021/02/26/mary-oliver-spring/ [https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2021/02/26/mary-oliver-spring/]. Thank you for joining me! I hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Voice Note Me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/voice.note.me.podcast?igsh=dGRldTZ6OWs0OG1w&utm_source=qr] Follow me, Robin, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/robin.bethel.lovesong/] ✨✨ You can also support my creative work on the show, if you'd like, by visiting here [https://buymeacoffee.com/robin.bethel.lovesong].

Opening into Softness, with Sarah Keck

In this episode, I had the joy of being in conversation with a close friend, Sarah Keck. Sarah is the co-owner of Common Ground, a coffeeshop that is such generous outflow of community and love, it’s hard for me to convey in words. But in short: she and her business partner have built something magical, and I know there is room for us to learn from her here. Sarah brings her magic to both outer and inner life, and she also brought it to this conversation, which we began in the last days of bright-dark December. This episode holds such different energy than the first, and I love the emerging tapestry of all this show will hold. I also love that Sarah took us deep into the territory of softness, which calls to me loudly, gently. I hope you enjoy listening, and discovering one more beautiful soul in this wide world.  Thank you for joining me! I hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Voice Note Me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/voice.note.me.podcast?igsh=dGRldTZ6OWs0OG1w&utm_source=qr] Follow me, Robin, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/robin.bethel.lovesong/] ✨✨ You can also support my creative work on the show, if you'd like, by visiting here [https://buymeacoffee.com/robin.bethel.lovesong].

The Alchemy of Becoming, with Jacob Nordby

In this first episode, I voice note with Jacob Nordby, a writer, creative guide, entrepreneur, and co-founder of A Writing Room, with Anne Lamott. He met me in this new adventure with such thoughtful, generous spirit as he shared pieces of self and his practice of becoming. To learn more about Jacob, you can visit https://www.jacobnordby.com/ [https://www.jacobnordby.com/] and you can find his writing community, A Writing Room, at https://awritingroom.com/ [https://awritingroom.com/].  Thank you for joining me! I hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Voice Note Me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/voice.note.me.podcast?igsh=dGRldTZ6OWs0OG1w&utm_source=qr] Follow me, Robin, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/robin.bethel.lovesong/] ✨✨ You can also support my creative work on the show, if you'd like, by visiting here [https://buymeacoffee.com/robin.bethel.lovesong].