Breathing Out Stars
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Joy is an act of resilience!
Leslie Coff sources bits and pieces from different spiritual practices to try to inspire during this challenging time. Sometimes you just gotta listen to someone else trying to get through the day.
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May 24, 2023
The open spaces & the river
Some people are good at tennis. I am not. I do have a special, innate skill in fire-building.
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May 23, 2023
The medicine mix
Back when I had a radio show called The Medicine Mix, I invited a rabbi, a pastor and a surgeon onto the show…so we could discuss prayer and healing. After the show was over, we were still talking about it in the elevator down to our cars.
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Aug 15, 2022
The Underworld
Sure I knew what to expect. I’d been there before. The lesson for me: fate will surprise you.
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Jul 3, 2022
Peacocks & Resistance
it is said that prayer is the highest form of rebellion -- you are daring to ask for a different world.
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Mar 10, 2022
Molotov cocktails --and cocktails.
A podcast is an art form – filled with heart and dreams and intellect and color and sound editing. And reality. Things are pretty real right now. It's not a time I feel like being funny. This is a time to feel things.
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Feb 9, 2022
Playing Whack-A-Mole in a Straight Jacket
It’s not enough to just get COVID. Let’s add fifty more limitations on top of that — or just feel like you have. It’s just Whack-A-Mole.
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Feb 4, 2022
When Life Gives You COVID, Make Lemon Cake
We may or may not have multiple cases of COVID in the house -- you decide for yourself how we are doing.
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Jan 21, 2022
The skipper
With five percent visibility on the lake, they were trapped in a sudden storm. Honestly it had come out of nowhere. But the skipper….she prayed…
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Jan 15, 2022
Hope, The Fig...and a little bit of Faith
...."Faith is not even real, you might say"...but I am here to offer that Faith is like your abs or your quads or your biceps. For it to work, you have to exercise it...
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Jan 9, 2022
Notes from the Ark: Doves, Cypress & Olive Trees
We are back in the ark and send out doves to check on the world. The dove brings back myrtle & olive -- to remind us to see with our hearts -- and that magic can come from nothing.
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Dec 28, 2021
The Tin Man & The Heart
When the Tin Man faints -- for real -- and he dares to feel.
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Dec 11, 2021
Blue Grace
There is a special kind of grace that we all need right now. A beautiful magic under stars and snow — when someone climbs out of their foxhole with their arms up in the air — singing.
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Mar 20, 2021
The Shipwreck
After a hiatus we are back! Something to do with a pandemic pup -- and a new direction. With a nod to Forrest Gump -- the only way forward is forward!
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Jan 13, 2021
The Emergency Lantern
I need an emergency lantern to see my way through dark times -- and batteries to help me conserve my energy for these times -- which aren't as light as I wish they could be.
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Dec 9, 2020
The Hanukkah of Fire & Light
A modern Hanukkah story for listening -- when the world was different -- and there was light -- so much light.
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Dec 7, 2020
Sangria & Fireflies
As we have moved into the days of darkness and I am dreaming a childhood dream – of flying. And I have made Sangria. It's not really the day-drinking -- it's the dream of day-drinking. Second star to the left and straight on 'til morning...
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Nov 16, 2020
In Pieces
These days I am just in pieces. That's it. But even pieces have to find a way to fit together.
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Nov 1, 2020
The Storm
We all have our individual traumas that have prepared us for what is ahead. But you know, they have prepared us well. The only way forward...is forward.
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Oct 27, 2020
Anything Man
That time that we think we need a superhero to fix everything -- but the superhero you are waiting for is you...
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Oct 12, 2020
Fire & Bones
This week I built a structure with bolts and washers and nuts – and shiny metal. I removed the protect plastic – from the pieces – and from myself. I built a structure to contain the fire. I am the structure to contain the fire.
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Oct 4, 2020
On Swearing & Marshmallows
Heck, burn the frick out of marshmallows.
But hold onto the light.
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Sep 27, 2020
I Gave My Best to You & The Bridge
What inspired me this week....between the land of the living and the land of the dead -- the bridge that joins us is love.
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Sep 22, 2020
The Sweet Jar
Looking for sweetness when it's rare -- and following the sound of a voice that calls to you.
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Sep 15, 2020
Choose Joy -- Pants Optional
When life goes zoom zoom zoom and all you want to do is not be the strong one anymore -- oh, and choosing joy!
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Sep 7, 2020
Sight, Change & Sardines
Even if you can't see -- you can still re-view, re-vision and change. And of course -- sardines.
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Aug 31, 2020
Creating Hope
When we lose someone, we can embody the qualities of theirs which we admire so much. They become part of who we are. Hold onto the light!
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Aug 24, 2020
The Matter of Toothpaste
In times like these, there is so much we cannot do. But perhaps we can do one thing -- and therefore it is one thing, indeed that we must do. One thing I can do -- is brush my teeth.
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Aug 17, 2020
Strange Angels Indeed
The parts of life that come rushing at you -- have you thought of welcoming them in?
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Aug 11, 2020
Those Red Flowers
All about cravings. Is a little of what you love good for you?
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Aug 4, 2020
Tree Roots & Light
New discoveries on the fate of Vincent Van Gogh based on his last painting, ”Tree Roots” — reveals to us something amazing about ourselves and our lives.
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Jul 28, 2020
The Machete
Where I take a machete of sorts to my garden -- talk about my old radio show and declare that 'prayer is resistance'...
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Jul 27, 2020
The Counting
When we count who is around us -- and who is sick and who has died...we emphasize that they count/they matter.
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Jul 25, 2020
First Episode - Getting through.
Welcome to Breathing Out Stars. Because this is the first episode I introduce why we have this title -- and I tell a story.
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