PODCAST · health
A Well Run Life
by Peter M Deeley Jr.
Come in.Sit down Take a secondYou get enough adviceThis is about nothingAnd everythingAnd all of it in-betweenThat’s enough for nowIt’s not a sprint Travel to A Well Run Life.comTell us how you are
Episodes
-
Don't Worry
Don’t worry The song Don't Worry, Be Happy was written expressly for me. Because if there is nothing to worry about - than I worry about the absence of something to worry about. I am concerned I may not be getting my point across.... (see what I mean.) Over the years, I have tried to focus on…
more -
Am I Vain?
I don't think of myself as a violent man, but when I hear: "You look great..... for 48." I get a little nutty. That qualifier sort of negates the compliment, no? Am I vain? Ok, so I am vain. I agree, it is not an attractive quality. And, I am sure that I have some measure of all the 7 deadly sins...
-
Ice Cream in the Morning
I have been traveling to big cities these past three weeks. Austin, Chicago and San Diego. I have walked to nearly all my meetings on these trips. The number of homeless people seems overwhelmingly high in these places. Is the number higher than usual? I can't say. How to give someone their…
more -
Kissing Babies
My Mom is Italian and my Dad is Irish. I am in the immigrant cycle of Americans where the immigrants were passing in the first 10 years of my life. Those born in this country primarily identified with their country origin. As a kid - When I was with my Dad's side - I was Irish. When I was with my...
-
Our New One
It was a big week in our family. I have a new niece as of last week. My brother-in-law and his wife added a perfect little cutie-pie to the family. Mother and baby are happy and healthy. And we are so happy to have the new one. I am rarely accused of being relaxed or calm. Even in repose, I am...
-
Here's Looking At You
I am not saying I am competitive, but I was 48 when it happened. He was 50. By “it” – I mean having to buy reading glasses. By “him” – I mean my Dad. The optometrist handled me well. I told him that I was there to confirm I did not need glasses. He appropriately and politely ignored me while...
-
Flow
The ocean brings me peace in a way no other place can – In the waves of the Southern California Pacific Ocean I feel divine generosity and a safe smallness. Salt water and the oxygenated white foam always wash away fatigue and move me towards an awareness of my body that I can’t get on land. I am...
-
Renew
I am in a season of change. Although, it’s occurred to me that perhaps we are always in a season of change and we just come in and out of realizing it. Whichever is the case, I sense newness emerging in my life and myself. I can’t report precisely how I feel about it – Right now It’s just a fact…
more -
Grace in the Morning Rain
The word Grace can mean so many things but idea of un-merited favor is my favorite. I live a life absent so many problems and full of so many blessings. My strengths and weaknesses are so closely bound to each other, that they often work simultaneously for me and against me. The divine is gentle...
-
47, 48
For years, it’s been my habit to do a podcast near my birthday to mark the moment. Well, it’s been 6 months since my last birthday and so I realize I will soon be staring another one in the face soon. It is certainly a feature of aging that time is measured in different increments as we get…
more -
Monsoon Season
Some dirty rotten scoundrel stole my Trailer at Grace Farms. I doubt the thief realized that it was my trailer. To the thief, it was “A” Trailer or “The Trailer.” Be that as it may I am taking it personally.
-
Not Small
Every wave seems to make it a point to let me know how powerless I am to stop it. But this doesn’t bother me. I go over or under their power without any fear. I don’t sit still easily. I prefer motion to rest. And I must like to worry – Because I do it all the time. I have a relentlessness to me...
-
On Kale and Daughters
I am staring at the Kale. And the Kale is staring back. When it was a seed – small and full of potential – it needed me to coax it from it’s confining shell out to a wide-open world of possibility. Now, it’s life is largely its own. Sun and water feed it and it grows nearly perceptibly in front…
more -
For Example
If you are wondering if you are ready for the big adventure ahead. Let me report form the edges of competence It’s a dangerous ledge with risks of may even be fatal. But, let me be an example I have survived all the consequences of my mistakes – serious as some have been. Let the voice in your…
more -
My Last Card
I am crying. Two seconds ago, I was a middle-aged man planning his day over an Americano. Then, I get a text from my cousin. I am not crying quiet – dignified-like. My nose is running and I am thanking god the bill is already paid. On the way to the car, I compose myself. The week is chock-full…
more -
Chicken Eggs
I am standing in front of a steaming pile. It’s taller than I am, and so I get to work. I am raking and shoveling the mulch delivered to Grace Farms with the discipline of an army ant. It’s about 6:30 AM – my morning farm shift – As I shovel deeper into the pile of chipped trees, the heat is...
-
House Marks
The desert winter can be harsh. There are times when it I so wicked one is compelled to put their socks on. Since I am a tough guy, I am going without socks this morning. Out into the garage I step to retrieve the almond milk for this morning’s Americano, and I am stabbed with a razor sharp ice...
-
DM's Triumph
It is an hour after Thanksgiving dinner. Family traditions throttle the pace of any high holiday – national or religious. I am currently throttling my 13 year-old nephew on the nearest basketball court in a post-turkey dinner game of HORSE. In my family, you won every contest against an adult…
more -
Rockin' The House
I am 20 and playing lead guitar. I am by far the worst musician in the band. They likely would have been a house-hold name if they had not been saddled with me. We played together for a year, and thank god You Tube had not been invented - my children would not survive the embarrassment. BUT There...
-
Refocus
The Road Runner at Grace Farms is eye-balling me. He was there before me, and he is intent on not letting me forget it. The bird presents himself to me every time I arrive. The colors of his plumage are much more subtle than I realized. I know Road Runners differently because I focused on this…
more -
Heroic Dips***
“Don’t talk to Pete. He is a dipshit.” In another era of my professional life, I read this love-note on an e-mail from a disgruntled client to her boss. I am unsure whether I was copied intentionally – but I am sure it gave her a certain amount of pleasure that I got to read what she thought of…
more -
The Unlikely Is Not The Imposible
Somewhere in the mid- 1960’s he is in the 10th grade and doing a handstand on the top rails of the Empire State Buildings observation deck. Some volunteer parent looking after the high school kids take one look and faint dead-away. An unfortunate gust of wind sends him tumbling like a fall leaf....
-
Leave A Message
"Ya ought to be ashamed of yourself!" This is my first voicemail of the day. When I worked for a giant company and held a position of authority and influence I liked the money - Everyone likes the money. But next on the list was this: Everyone returned my calls.
-
The Gospel of Doubt
It goes without saying: I do not know what I am doing. I killed all the tilapia in my aquaponics farm because I misunderstood how to keep them healthy. 30 chickens on the farm died because I built a substandard chicken coop that some average coyote easily penetrated. I am not a famer Yet I farm....
-
Bee Careful
I am in no danger of becoming an expert. In Anything. She is calling me because she wants me to be safe. I want to pick-up to tell her I am safe. However, I am standing on a ladder In a bee suit – which If I knocked on your door wearing this bee suit You would think I was there to clean the Ebola...
-
46, 47
Somewhere in the development of the human species we learned to use tools. There is a great scene in the move 2001: A Space Odyssey that imagines the moment when our primordial ancestors learned to use a hammer. In my development as a farmer on Grace Farms, I have somehow regressed to just before...
-
In The Weeds
In our desert, water occasionally falls from the sky sufficiently to create Flash Floods and awaken the seeds of future tumbleweeds and voracious milk weeds. Let me do my best to avoid the farming – garden cliché of discussing the spiritual virtues acquired by weeding their growing soil. Don’t...
-
Clever or Not You're Ready
My mom says I am smart, but that I am not clever. I am sure I am not smart enough to know what she means – but I have thought about her description often over the years. My thinking is not elegant. I don’t come to conclusions with deft – deductive – Sherlock Holms-ian clarity. I have go over and...
-
Needful Things
I have a very particular style of home improvement. My instincts attune to the whatever is the easiest, most efficient route And I travel that path only after exhausting every single difficult road first. I come from a family who deeply values language and we look for metaphors everywhere But…
more -
Salad Days
As I type this the tender heads of my babies are passing through the digestive tracks of my enemies. I don’t know about you, but when I see a baby – eating it’s head off is not the first thing that comes to mind. That is not the case for the birds near my farm. I grow – with care and tenderness –...
-
Chicken Hit
If the Chickens had a Mafia, this is how I imagined they would settle old scores. Upon returning from a trip out of town, I walked on to Grace Farms. There, I found all my girls- who I raised from baby Chicks - scattered in various poses of death and dismemberment. I am vexed. I built a Chicken...
-
Snow Storm
The movie in my imagination shows a mid-sized dog launching from an easy boy and chewing the nose off my face. To make matters worse, Jon Snow is back in town tonight. Right along side my wife, I have been pining for him for months. Jon Snow will soon face the White Walkers while I am faking...
-
Pale Cucumbers
Placing the cucumbers in the harsh desert light seems a harsh. Under the pressure of the summer heat they will either shrivel and die, or come into the fullness of their flavor. I trust their grit and I am anticipating a great harvest.
-
Stings
We are obsessively watching The Americans on Amazon Prime. If you tasted this bit of Telivision Crack, chances are you’e done the same. The show is overtly political but it’s engine is the relationship between husband and wife: Phillip and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is this teeny tiny woman. Now, my…
more -
Antsy
If you knew how much I hate the ants in my garden, you would be creating a Kickstarter campaign to cover the bills associated with my much-needed therapy. The little demons aside, I am under the spell of growing food. It’s cucumbers, melons and sunflowers that generously fill my garden under my...
-
Stinky Honey
My wife’s palate is very sharp. She can parse flavors in dishes down to the spices and the addresses of the pigs who gave their lives for the pork in our stew. With great tasting powers come great smelling powers. Which can be a blessing and a curse. “Honey,” she says while I have come in from...
-
Unambiguous Work
My record as an entrepreneur is unambiguous. I am an awful entrepreneur. I have been pretty-good at making large sums of money for other people, but I have recycled my earnings through a series of business train wrecks that will make most every business person in the world feel better about their...
-
Straighten Out
The bones of the spine want to sit directly on top of each other. The shoulders want to be down and back. Pull yourself out of alignment and tell me you like it. Slouch and crumple yourself and say it feels good. But, when you see a dancer move, an athlete run, you know better. The premium placed...
-
The Promise Of A Blue Sky
I hear the engine of a small airplane and the sky is very blue. Who knows how memory works. This is among my earliest recollections. Somehow, I remember it outside my body – looking at my 4 year old self in the front yard of the first house I ever lived in. From that moment until today, I…
more -
Parking Lot Prayers
You never want to call someone crazy, but he was dressed in the blues of the local mental hospital. We were standing in front of a local grocery store. I truly enjoyed this neighborhood. But, family and friends found this an unusual predilection of mine. A cross dresser in his early 70’s fed…
more -
Two Dogs
In cultural wisdom that I have incorporated into my world view, I learned that there are two dogs inside all of us. The good dog. And the bad dog. And they fight with each other. Which dog wins? The one we feed the most.
-
Dog's Life
I am making my dogs omelettes in the morning. They love it. It’s true, my family and I are all a bit snobby about food. In an over-quick yes, my fiancé mistaken said yes to a quartet of baby chicks. “Yes” to her meant that we would talk later. “Yes” to me meant she found them in boxes on the...
-
Shofar, So Good
Not to be indelicate, but it is a menstruation. And I walked right in on her. I am pretty sure she was thinking: I need to get a bell around that guy’s neck. Clearly he was not raised right. The four chickens in the backyard are laying eggs now. And I am eye-balling them every few hours waiting…
more -
Chicken Patzer
My organic chicken is in a giant Tampax Tampon carton. This vexes me. However, Costco is unmoved by my consternation. It is possible they did not even notice.
-
Use Your Words
"TV rots your brain.” My parents tell me this early in life. Being stout, I braved it nonetheless. At age 8, watching Batman, I calculated: I am doing OK in school and I still have good motor skills. It must affect the organ slowly. At 16, I realized my parents had offered the gem as a metaphor.…
more -
The House Smells
Once, when the family was broke – we bought that muffin dough that comes in an exploding can was on sale: 1 can for a dime. We bought some sort of pig rind that the butcher essentially gave to us. We rendered the fat – fried that cheap dough into doughnuts. It was a triumph.
-
Turner for the Worst
I left the church because I would not be – what we called at the time – a “cafeteria” Catholic. This is somebody who picks and chooses what they believe, rather than believe the entire fabric required by the faith. I once made my - now 16 year-old - cry because I sternly corrected what I believed...
-
Wilder, DNA
I skip many comedies because they seem to be striving for the "most shocking" of crassness and volume. Too little use of language and subtlety for me. Maybe if more comedians had giant eyes like Mr. Wilder, they'd rely less on their volume. Years from now, when asked about the memories of the…
more -
Grapefruit
I am pretty sure the grapefruit crime was victimless. It is impossible for me to know if my Nana was just making a mundane task more interesting by placing me in the role of Law-Breaker or whether she really was grooming me as an earner in her own Cosa Nostra.
-
Turns
I just returned from an island. One side was calm and the sea placid. Almost too calm – as if the Pacific was just some big lake. The other side churned. The wind, relentless, pushed the sea around in dramatic fashion. It was beautiful, exciting and dangerous. The water smashed against rocks –…
more
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Come in.Sit down Take a secondYou get enough adviceThis is about nothingAnd everythingAnd all of it in-betweenThat’s enough for nowIt’s not a sprint Travel to A Well Run Life.comTell us how you are
HOSTED BY
Peter M Deeley Jr.
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does A Well Run Life have?
A Well Run Life currently has 100 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is A Well Run Life about?
Come in.Sit down Take a secondYou get enough adviceThis is about nothingAnd everythingAnd all of it in-betweenThat’s enough for nowIt’s not a sprint Travel to A Well Run Life.comTell us how you are
How often does A Well Run Life release new episodes?
A Well Run Life has 100 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to A Well Run Life?
You can listen to A Well Run Life on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts A Well Run Life?
A Well Run Life is created and hosted by Peter M Deeley Jr..
URL copied to clipboard!