HAIKAST XVII – Mental Health at Work
After 7 years, I walked away from my longest held job on Valentine’s Day 2023. I started at COSCO in January 2016 as a temporary worker. COSCO, whose name is a sort of acronym for Columbus Specialty Company, began in Columbus, IN over 80 years ago. To be clear, I do not work at Costco,...
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Episode 69 – The Fish Catcher
On this episode of Revealing Voices, we welcome Sherry Lanning to the show. Sherry wrote a letter to her son Robin called “The Fish Catcher” in Hope for Troubled Minds. She reads it and shares what it meant to write and publish it. Sherry is a retired nurse, living in Oregon with David, her husband of...
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Episode 68 – Healing Journeys with Skye and Beth
In this episode, Skye Nicholson and Beth Hughes from the new Breaking Patterns podcast join Eric in Studio E in Columbus. Skye and Beth are 13 episodes into a podcast that explores how to recognize, change, and develop patterns in our lives to make us healthier and happier. Recent topics on the Breaking Patterns podcast include: –...
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HAIKAST XVI – Yahoo Hike
I have been hiking the Sheltowee Trace Trail in Kentucky over the past 8 years. The 300 mile trail from Morehead, KY to Rugby, TN goes through the heart of beautiful rolling woods- hugging Cave Run Lake, meandering through the epoch Red River Gorge, and then tightly winding around the perimeter of Laurel Lake. After...
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HAIKAST XV – Moon Phases
I wonder if our cultural understanding of heaven is associated with an ascension from the earth because humans for millennia were excited to join the nightly parade of sublime light? With the glow of city lights, the night sky does not speak as it did to our ancestors whose lives were accustomed to the astronomical...
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Episode 67 – Hope for Troubled Minds Contributors
On this episode of Revealing Voices, we feature contributors to Hope for Troubled Minds. Born in Kentucky, Janet Coburn now lives in Ohio with her husband of over 40 years, Dan Reily. She also lives with bipolar 2 disorder. Janet loves reading and country music. Dan loves gardening and archaeology. Together they love travel, science fiction,...
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Episode 66 – Vachel Hudson, Mental Health Matters
In this episode, Tony is back in Columbus and takes the opportunity to team up with Eric in Studio E to interview Vachel Hudson, a mental health leader in the community. Vachel Hudson is the Project Manager for the Mental Health Matters initiative in Bartholomew County, Indiana. He works for Columbus Regional Health, leading the community-wide...
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HAIKAST XIV – Origin Story
I recently went on a search for my earliest recorded haiku from what I shall call the “Opening Era”. That era began with the death of my last grandparent, Amos Harlan Rippy. After his funeral on the hillside cemetery in Tell City, Indiana in 2013, I felt a commitment with an origin outside of myself...
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