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Making Global Sense
Making Global Sense
Author: Judah Freed
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Seasoned journalist and award-winning author Judah Freed offers news, views and interviews with global thinkers discussing ideas and issues in the book, Making Global Sense: Grounded hope for democracy and the earth inspired by Thomas Paine's Common Sense (GlobalSense.com). Podcast episodes explore and encourage a global sense of life in our world.
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Here is the preface from the forthcoming audiobook version of Making Global Sense. Because my voice is rough from cancer treatments, your narrator is Daniel Greenberg, a professional voice artist. His soulwork features supporting intentional communities worldwide, so he recorded this preface test run in India, and he'll be recording the full audiobook in Mozambique. Other locales around the world join the list as he and I do "punch-ins" for seamless segues. Audio...
Reflections while visiting Hawaii over Christmas and New Year. I played Santa for a performance of "Santa Baby" at CSL Kauai. I also responded to movies. (Podchaser: udlbKKnA2S6hZ5nHpsoY) Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
I voice feeling sadness tonight about my life and our world. I'm grateful I can feel my feeling and ride the wave of sadness . I own my grief and find peace in the healing. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
Grievances may be valid, yet I may use complaining to avoid responsibility for fixing the problems I identify. My goal is discernment and action without ego in the way. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
As a child, I practiced magic tricks and became adept at deception. As an adult, I practiced self-deception and became adept at living a lie to get along in the world. I see humanity doing likewise today on a global safe. We can outgrow the habit. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
Reflections on the power giving thanks. Closes with my 1984 "Poem for Thanks Giving." Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
A friend of mine is a commercial pilot who talks about landing the airplane safely as a metaphor for landing safely in life. The goal is stability in the glide path despite that can go wrong, from strong sidewinds to landing gears not being locked. Here are reflections on my friend's viewpoint as applied to my life as a cancer survivor and to my nation as a despotism survivor. You may find hope in these thoughts. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any ap...
A few thoughts about life and living from my front porch on a late summer evening. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.
Welcome to the first episode of the Making Global Sense Podcast, launched on the 247th anniversary of Common Sense by Thomas Paine. This episode introduces the main concepts and sets the tone for the episodes to come. Support the show You may SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on any app.. Kindly subscribe to my writings on Substack and read Making Global Sense. Please visit me at JudahFreed.com.





