The Charles Walker Band and the R&B/Blues/Jazz/Etc music that they play lead us to the shiny center of all things. Charles writes love-and-hope-oriented sunny blues, the fruit of his spiritual growth starting from Evangelical Christianity, through Buddhism & Taoism, and flourishing in personal motivation and Mastermind.

Michael Rambo first assembled his latest music as a project and it became a phenomenon. What to expect? Soul, jazz, R&B, gospel, and messages of gratitude and connection to God.

Steve Terwilliger talks about his environmental transformation of his home, and an in-depth study of potential futures of our transportation system.

Debra Rosenman is author of the upcoming collection, The Chimpanzee Chronicles: Spellbinding Stories from Behind the Bars, about our closest animal cousin. It's about increasing understanding & compassion, something Debra also does through her workshops on Journey into the Animal Heart Circles and by her private practice as a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist and Somatic Archaeologist.

Music Featured:
If Baboons Can Work It Out - Charlie King & Karen Brandow

There's a sea change going on around marriage equality/homosexuality/alternative sexuality, and one sign is 3 new memoirs. Last week we spoke to Chana Wilson who wrote Riding Fury Home, including the trials of the "mental illness" of her lesbian mother, and we started our visit with Annie Lanzillotto, author of L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, including her trials with cancer, a raucous Italian family, and much more. We conclude our 2 hours with Margaret Sorrel who assisted to fruition Staying True: Musings of an Odd-duck Quaker Lesbian Approaching Death, for her partner, Lynn Waddington, at the end of Lynn's life. Part of the sea change is that these are memoirs of multifaceted people, not "just" lesbians.

You can get a good idea of what kind of music singer/songwriter Don D. Harvey makes by the list of groups he's been part of (in addition to his solo work): Shakin Loose, Tennessee, The Acoustic Conspiracy, The Earthbound Band, and currently, The Ultrasonic Duo. Featured at the Great River Folk Festival this year, Don lives and plays in the LaCrosse, Wisconsin area.

There's a sea change going on around marriage equality/homosexuality/alternative sexuality, and one sign is 3 new memoirs. Chana Wilson wrote Riding Fury Home, including the trials of the "mental illness" of her lesbian mother. Annie Lanzillotto released L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir, including her trials with cancer, a raucous Italian family, and much more. We conclude our 2 hours with Margaret Sorrell who edited Staying True - Musings of an Odd-duck Quaker Lesbian Approaching Death, for her partner, Lynn Waddington, at the end of Lynn's life. Part of the sea change is that these are memoirs of multifaceted people, not "just" lesbians.

Steve McIntosh is author of Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins, an insightful & carefully reasoned study of the big WHY driving creation. With a worldview peering beyond the beliefs & practices of traditionalists, modernists, & post-modernists, Steve leads us to an outlook which promises dramatic improvement, inner & outer, for our culture & world.

George McCorkell is central to & primary songwriter for The May North, a band that self-proclaims that they perform "bluegrass without boundaries, folk without pretense, honest storytelling without apology". They're right!

Since 1991, Jim Ziolkowski & BuildOn.org have been transforming inner city schools in the USA and building schools - over 550 to-date - in the poorest countries of the globe. In his book, Walk In Their Shoes, Jim shares his own stories and the stories of many of the volunteers of BuildOn, US teens whose lifes have been renewed, African women who've found self-respect & a voice through equal access to education as part of the BuildOn covenant, and many others. This is inspirational, painful, joyful, astonishing work, and Jim shares his story transparently.

Music Featured:
What Can One Person Do? - Andy Murray