Or, how I think my way from “stuck” to clear, moving through anger, misunderstanding, and possible loss, all toward a peaceful conclusion thanks to the miracle of forgiveness.Warmest regards,Allen

Please Wait to Be Seated

Jun 23rd, 2021 5m 28s

In which a few unscripted moments are turned into ancestral traumas comically compared, and life at the Quadrangle revealed.

This Is the End

Jun 19th, 2021 14m 36s

This is the end my friend!Details will be provided at a later date.Warmest regards.Allen

Dinner With This Old Man

Jun 16th, 2021 13m 15s

In which this old man remembers the importance of being alone, and then of not taking one's company too seriously.

Why Do People Have Children?

Jun 14th, 2021 22m 14s

Or not?Perhaps related, why do people have parents? Reflections on reproduction in the life of this old man.

The Practice of Being Good

Jun 7th, 2021 20m 25s

Which is more interesting than it seems.Might even be one of life's great adventures.Warmest regards,Allen

This Old Man Comes Clean

Jun 2nd, 2021 6m 4s

Mainly about the podcasts. But because my podcasts tend to be so personal, there’s probably a little more here than you want to know.Warmest regards,Allen

Darby Rd 302

May 30th, 2021 3m 21s

A brief primer on comedy and appropriateness, ways of enjoying yourself with others, old sailors home from the sea.

Enjoying Your Way Through a Dull Day

May 26th, 2021 14m 47s

I also thought of entitling the podcast, “Reasoning Your Way Through a Day of Problems,” but it didn’t sound as good.Once again I must apologize. There is absolutely no philosophy here.Warmest regards,Allen

Encounters of a Sunday Afternoon

May 24th, 2021 12m 35s

Dominated by care. On everyone’s part, including yours.Warmest regards,Allen

Anger Management

May 18th, 2021 12m 12s

Through anger to reason. Somewhat akin to Richardson’s “Through Phenomenology to Thought.” Enacted and ready for your consideration.

Being with Myself

May 5th, 2021 13m 17s

A Narcissist’s Adventure.But as Frost said before his walk around the pasture, “You come too.”Warmest regards,Allen

Being-Toward-Death

Apr 27th, 2021 10m 57s

as a living experience in being oneself. On the way, a meditation on trance as a way of being with oneself in pain.Not particularly happy subjects. but then again. . .Warmest regards,Allen

Back at the Arboretum

Apr 22nd, 2021 15m 14s

For an encounter with The Cedar of Lebanon, going on to perfuming myself with tree blossoms, and winding up with the story of the Grateful Dead’s search for America, and finding it! For those with a philosophical bent, who are bent philosophi

Being in the Village Circa 1967

Apr 11th, 2021 10m 13s

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!I know I sound a bit like a carnival barker, but what is portrayed at the center of the podcast is in fact the great carnival of the late sixties, as it was in a West Village apartment on Prince Street. The podcast recoll

A Moment of Recollection

Apr 9th, 2021 11m 15s

Which becomes absorbed in the recollection, but then is seriously interrupted by a bird bent on stopping the podcast before it even gets started. But the old man persists and eventually outlasts the bird. The recollection is picked up again a

About This Podcast

Apr 6th, 2021 14m 59s

This episode should serve as a good introduction for new and potential listeners curious about what the podcast is. The podcast becomes the podcast it’s talking about. All this while grounded in the present moment in time and space.

Capturing the Moment

Apr 4th, 2021 12m 46s

Featuring the springing of Spring, at the moment of its inception. In more direct terms, I think I happen into a moment of near perfection here in the space/time of spring in the suburbs.After describing the movement of the moment as best I

The Community of Those With Nothing in Common

Mar 31st, 2021 14m 16s

Being a meditative walk with philosopher-poet Alphonse Lingis and sharing his astonishments. Along the way, an encounter with an old man who can’t hear, admissions of the egocentrisms of your podcaster, all to the accompaniment of a hoot owl.

Songs for a Shabbat Afternoon

Mar 28th, 2021 20m 6s

Because of the theme that was emerging, I guess I slow things down a bit, yet I think the podcast still moves along rather nicely. It comes out to about twenty minutes, but unlike the Passover Seder, which turns out to be one of its themes, the

A Joyful Moment

Mar 23rd, 2021 16m 28s

Which turns into philosophy. So the podcast starts off intending to be expressive of the happiness I was experiencing in that moment, and in the midst of the expression, philosophy happens. I hope you are able to pick up on it.

Breakfast With My Father

Mar 20th, 2021 13m 39s

An evocation of another time and another place. Paterson, the place where the remembering takes place, was magical in many ways, witness William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsburg, to say nothing of Lou Costello and Larry Doby. The time is the

Moving with the Creek

Mar 19th, 2021 13m 17s

But still noticing philosophical possibilities along the way. Philosophy is always done best, I think, on the move.

A New Beginning

Mar 15th, 2021 17m 43s

Think of this as the Grand Opening! New listeners will be delighted to find an introduction to--and existing listeners a continuation of--what makes Scult's regular meditations such a warm and enriching presence in the life of any mind.

Of Interest

Mar 10th, 2021 21m 46s

Welcome to our first devotion! (Far from our first recording, somewhat arbitrarily our first release.) Special interests, moneyed interests, interest rate calculators, negative interest rates, Interesa of Avila, are you interested? Are animals

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