Making Sense and Nonsense

6.5: What's Hurting? What's Helping?

Welcome to this mini-episode of Making Sense and Nonsense! EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we make sense of: ~Where we’ve disappeared to, and why, and when we’re coming back! ~Link to the post full of updates about what’s been Hurting and Helping Heidi (the one mentioned in this mini-ep) is… https://makingsensepod.substack.com/p/the-way-is-long-the-path-is-mean [https://makingsensepod.substack.com/p/the-way-is-long-the-path-is-mean]. ~To see photos of Heidi and Paul's yard and gardens, visit the substack page for this podcast. https://makingsensepod.substack.com/ [https://makingsensepod.substack.com/] ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (Or comment on a substack post or in response to an email in your inbox.) Tell us what it’s like for you, in your life, wherever you are in the world—what’s hurting? What’s helping? And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out. CREDITS: ~Music by Jake Xerxes Fussell, Gonçalo Moreira (see below) and Jesse Welles (hellswelles on youtube). Gonçalo Moreira (talented jazz pianist/ Heidi’s friend) can be found on youtube under his own name.~Photos by Heidi! Kindfully & Devotedly Yours,Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com [https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

6: Your Second (2nd) Installment of Cozy Content!

| The Comforting, Connecting Journey Continues!Welcome to the second installment of Cozy Content from your friends and allies at Making Sense and Nonsense! It has been restorative and joyful making it for you. Healing, even! (Every moment prepping this is a moment we’re not watching or thinking about the news.) EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we take a break from making sense of today and retreat to a long-ago, faraway and (somewhat) simpler time.ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS: ~Music by Willie Nelson. ~Photos by Paul DeCoursey, and artists on pixabay and Unsplash. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com [https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

5: YOUR FIRST (1st) INSTALLMENT of COZY CONTENT!

| OR: Surprise! Hope You Like It!Welcome to the long-promised first installment of Cozy Content from your friends and allies at Making Sense and Nonsense! We hope it’s everything you imagined it might be! EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we take a break from making sense of today and retreat to a long-ago, faraway and (somewhat) simpler time.ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE: ~No Commercials Now or Ever! ~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it. ADDING YOUR VOICE: To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS: ~Music by Willie Nelson. ~Photos by artists on pixabay and Unsplash. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com [https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

4: The World Will Never Take My Heart

| OR: Welcome to the Black Parade/ Take the Soul Power Back! Welcome to another *Special Episode* for Making Sense and Nonsense. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we are offering a “comfort listen” in the form of songs (drawn from rock, folk rock, Americana, OLD country, R&B and jazz) that embrace the buoyancy of rebellion and the joy of arms locked in solidarity. (You can suggest your own additions and when we have a sufficient number, we will make a youtube/ spotify playlist of listener suggestions!)The episode title was borrowed from a line in the song Welcome to the Black Parade (written by My Chemical Romance). ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it.ADDING YOUR VOICE:To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, see our google doc "Response Guide" at makingsensepod.substack.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS:~Music: The songs in this playlist largely come from our own collection but any that we found on youtube that we didn’t already own, we have purchased a copy of (whenever available):*Postmodern Jukebox / Joey Cook Welcome to the Black Parade *Aretha Franklin RESPECT *Brandi Carlile Rise Again*Tracy Chapman Give Me One Reason*Sly & The Family Stone If You Want Me To Stay *Peter, Paul & Mary If I Had a Hammer *Bob Marley Get Up Stand Up*Sly & The Family Stone Stand!*Ben E. King Stand By Me*MASH UP (by Bill McClintock on youtube): Rage Against the Machine + James Brown + Van Halen Take the Soul Power Back *Neko Case Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth*Johnny Cash God’s Gonna Cut You Down*Carlos Santana Evil Ways *Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel Shame On You*Lucinda Williams Changed the Tracks *Brandi Carlile I Will *Joan Baez No Woman, No Cry*Willie Nelson Nothing I Can Do About It Now*Johnny Cash Time Changes Everything *Guy Clark Worry B Gone*Brandi Carlile A Promise To Keep *Odetta Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright *Stevie Wonder Tomorrow Robins Will Sing *Carole King You’ve Got A Friend *The Gabe Dixon Band All Will Be Well *Postmodern Jukebox / Morgan James Dream On *Jake Xerxes Fussel Jump For Joy ~Artwork: Photos by augustino, yiyiphotos, darvinsantos and PublicDomainPictures on pixabay. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com [https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

3: A Million Candles Burning For A Love That Never Came

| OR: Everything Is Broken/ Playlist-As-Irish-Wake Mourning the End of America As We Knew Her Welcome to this *Special Episode* for Making Sense and Nonsense. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode, we are offering a “comfort listen” in the form of music that embraces anger and heartbreak. (You can suggest your own additions and when we have a sufficient number, we will make a youtube/ spotify playlist of listener suggestions!) ABOUT MAKING SENSE & NONSENSE:~No Commercials Now or Ever!~Release schedule: 2-4 Fridays per month, as Heidi’s health allows it.ADDING YOUR VOICE:To share back with us, you can write or even better yet, submit a voice message to: THEmakingsensepod@gmail.com OR nonsensepodsense@gmail.com. For more info, see our google doc "Response Guide" at makingsensepod.substack.com. (And if you get stuck or have questions, feel free to reach out.) CREDITS:~The songs in this playlist largely come from our own collection but any that we found on youtube that we didn’t already own, we have purchased a copy of (whenever available): *Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows (Live in Iceland)*Postmodern Jukebox / Joey Cook Ain't No Rest*Tom Waits Misery is the River of the World*Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds People Ain't No Good*Postmodern Jukebox / Hailey Reinhart Creep*Stevie Wonder He’s Misstra Know It All*Procol Harem Whiter Shade of Pale*Warren Zevon Numb as a Statue*Lucinda Williams Not Dark Yet*Leonard Cohen You Want it Darker*Tom Waits Everything Goes to Hell*Lucinda Williams Everything is Broken*Gilliam Welch The Way it Goes*Gordon Lightfoot Circle of Steel*Lucinda Williams American Dream*Lou Rawls You Can't Go Home*Stevie Wonder Village Ghetto Land *Richard & Linda Thompson Withered & Died*Gordon Lightfoot Too Late for Praying*Etta James God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)*Tom Waits God's Away On Business*Chris Cornell Black Hole Sun (Live in Vancouver) *Gillian Welch The Way the Whole Things Ends ~Photos by Miriams-Fotos on pixabay. Kindfully & Devotedly Yours, Heidi Juniper & Crew This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makingsensepod.substack.com [https://makingsensepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]