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Finding Home Podcast
by Jan Peppler, PhD
Exploring the Connection Between People and Place Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jan-peppler-phd/support
Episodes
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The Magic and Mystery
To listen to the NPR interview with a Norwegian scientist, click here: The Physics Behind Santa To read more and join the conversation, go to FindingHome.Substack.com
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A New Lease
Making a decision helps keep us present in the here and now. This podcast is also available in written form at Finding Home on Substack.com and at JanPepplerHOME. You can email me directly at [email protected].
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Neighbors
Neighbors can really make or break our experience of home. For the first time in my life, I really know my neighbors. And that makes all the difference. What about you? Please go to Finding Home on Substack.com to tell me your story! This episode is also available as a blog post:...
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4th of July & Blueberry Pie
Picking blueberries reminds me of a time when I was particularly happy. And nothing says home more than good memories. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2022/06/30/4th-of-july-blueberry-pie/ and at Finding Home on Substack.com Finding Home is a...
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Be Gentle, Be Honest, Be Kind
The world would be a better place if we were kinder, gentler, and more honest with ourselves, as well as with each other. This begins with admitting we’re not okay. This episode is based on two posts at Finding Home on Substack.com: "I Am Not Okay" and "Be Gentle, Be Honest, Be Kind."
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Grandfathers - Remembered and Erased
Who are we when an ancestor is written out of the family history and erased from the photos? Who are we then? What is home when some doors are locked? To read the guest post mentioned in this episode, please visit FindingHome on Substack.com. The post is here: Grandfathers - Remembered and…
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1-Euro Homes: The House I Love But Can't Buy
While in Sambucca di Sicilia in February 2022, I fell in love with a home that fit my budget perfectly! Only, there is a problem. And my friend who is an architect says it's too big to fix. This episode can also be read at Finding Home on Substack.com. Finding Home is a listener-supported…
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When You Lose Your Father
Nothing else compares to losing your father because the role of Father is very unique. This episode is also available at Finding Home on Substack.com and as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2022/05/20/when-you-lose-your-father/ The photo accompanying this episode is of me and my father…
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Rethinking Mother’s Day
You think Mother’s Day is just a celebration of women who birthed babies or raised kids? Think again. The origins of this special day may surprise you. This episode is also available as a blog post at Finding Home on Substack and at JanPepplerHOME.com
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For the Love of Trees
For May Day, Arbor Day, and Every Day - "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree" This episode can also be found at Finding Home on Substack.com and is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2022/05/01/for-the-love-of-trees/
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The Easter Message Today
Wendell Berry's poetry is more salient this year than ever. In the midst of everything, participate in Spring. Practice resurrection. This episode is also available at Finding Home on Substack.com and at JanPepplerHOME.com The photo for this episode was taken by me, Jan Peppler.
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Spring Cleaning & A Happy Home
Push past the winter blahs with these ideas for enjoying the little things and creating a home that makes you happy. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2022/04/08/spring-cleaning-a-happy-home/ and at Finding Home on Substack.com.
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When Home is a Vocation
Just because you’re got at a job doesn’t mean you’re meant to do that job forever. Living a purposeful life where your work is a calling requires taking chances and starting over. This episode can be found as a blog post at Finding Home on Substack.com or at JanPepplerHOME.
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Cleaning House
Whether you’re a power cleaner, a compulsive cleaner, or a daily tidy-upper, cleaning house doesn’t have to be complicated. But the best cleaning starts with two simple steps. This episode is also available as a blog post at Finding Home on Substack or at...
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Letting Go… Again
I discovered mold in my home last week, at first forcing me to let go of some things. But then I had a choice of what to keep and what to release. And choice is hard. This episode is also available as a blog post on Finding Home.substack.com and at JanPepplerHOME.
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Home is Inside You
Whenever someone tells me "home is inside you," I cringe a little. That sentiment is far easier said than done. How, then, DO we begin to find home inside ourselves? This episode is also available at FindingHome on Substack.com or at janPepplerHome:...
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Here Comes the Sun
Celebrating the Winter Solstice with a story about Amaterasu Omikami, the Japanese goddess of the sun. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2021/12/21/here-comes-the-sun/
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Thanksgiving
Just some musings on the history and current state of this holiday. This episode can also be found as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME.com or at Finding Home on Substack.com.
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Before We Celebrate Another Holiday
In recognition of EVERY vet. We, as a country, need to do more to support our vets. It doesn't matter if you agree with the military-industrial complex or not. These people have done what 93% of Americans haven't - and can't even imagine. They are true public servants. They deserve our respect…
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When Faith Brings Us Home
A few days before my mom died, she told me, “I’m dying. It’s okay, I’ve seen that it is all okay.” My mother was going home. Going home to God. This is what she believed. As did my father, who died on Christmas morning. "O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger is my paradise." This is what he believed. My...
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Tethered Hearts
To be tethered is to have roots. To be tethered is to be home. The photo accompanying this episode is of Girl with Balloon by the artist Bansky. This artwork first appeared as graffiti in London and later was sold at auction for $1.4 million, after which it immediately began to shred through the...
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The History of the U.S. and Home
Today we recognize the 574 tribes of Native Americans in the U.S. today and the millions who were here when we took their homes. This episode is also available as a blog post at JanPepplerHOME and at Finding Home on Substack.com The photo for this episode was taken by me in August of 1998, on the...
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Disturbing Tranquility
Spending time in nature is essential for our wellbeing yet even in a city park or our own backyard, we can be bombarded by noise. For me, the worst noise is a leafblower. Where do YOU find serenity in nature? This episode is also available as a blog post at Finding Home on substack.com and at...
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Potato Soup
Chewing has become exhausting. I wish I had understood that decades ago when I made soup for my father. This episode is also available as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME and at Finding Home on Substack.com. BTW, the soup photo is not my own. No credit that I can find but I pulled it from Pillsbury.com
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When Place is a Verb
Thomas Rhett has a new song where he says, “It sure is good to be country again.” I’m struggling to understand what that means. What does it mean to be a place? This episode is also available as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME and at Finding Home on substack.com. The boots in the photo are just…
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The Children are Watching
We must be careful with our words and actions, even when we are frustrated, angry, fearful, or sad. Because children are watching. They are watching all of us. This episode is also available as a blog post on JanPepplerHOME and on FindingHome at Substack.com. The accompanying photo for this post…
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Contemplating Suicide
Living – really living – is a perpetual act of suicide. This episode is also available as a blog post at JanPepplerHOME.com and at Finding Home on substack.com
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Before & After We Marry, Part 1
After a wedding, you are never really the same. Once we marry, a part of us is gone forever. Even as we embrace our new joined lives with joy and excitement, we need to honor what we leave behind. This episode is also available as a blog post at JanPepplerHOME.com and at Finding Home on...
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Seniors Leaving Home
When it’s time for assisted living, it’s not the home or their belongings that our elders miss. It’s the freedom and their youth. They don’t care so much if they are forgetting things, they have all the memories they need. Our parents are often more willing to move on than we know. This episode…
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Peter Rabbit, Imagination, and Our Sensory Love of Home
Today is the birthday of Beatrix Potter, who reminds us that imagination can be the glue that binds us to home.
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Belonging, Part 2: my Story
My own story of belonging is both different from and similar to Brené’ Brown’s. Since I didn’t fit in, I used my oddness to my advantage. That worked for me as a kid but hurt me as an adult. This episode is also available as a blog post on Finding Home on substack.com and on JanPepplerHOME.com...
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Belonging
We all have a need to belong. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, belonging is smack in the middle of the pyramid, right there with love. This is not to say the two are synonymous. You can certainly feel loved (by your family, a special someone, or a group) and simultaneously feel like you don’t…
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Respite in the Woods
Musing on Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," and my time in a cabin in Sicily, outside of San Giovani Gemini. This podcast can also be found on my blog, FindingHome on substack.com. Please log on and share your thoughts! I'd love to hear from you. Thank you!
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Nostalgia - Grieving Our Childhoods, Not Our Country
Nostalgia forms when we long for a place and time created in our young minds, which may or may not have a basis in reality. What we are really mourning is not the loss of a better time, but the loss of our childhood. This episode is also available as a blog post on Finding Home on substack.com…
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Not Every Mom Is A Good Mother
There are a whole lot of moms who do not love their children as we expect mothers to and who do not provide the things a child needs to grow up feeling at home in the world. Some of these moms embody the Hera archetype, whose fulfillment comes from being married, not from being a mother. If Hera…
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Our Body, Our Home
John O’Donohue wrote, “The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world.” A home must feel safe and be a place where we belong. But what if our body doesn’t feel safe and we’re told our body is not our own? This episode is also available on substack at...
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The Special Role of Fathers
Things have changed a lot in recent years, yet the archetypes of Mother and Father remain. And the function of these archetypes is still important. Mother is the comfortable womb of home. Father disturbs that comfort. Father calls us out into the world. This episode is also available as a blog…
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Strive for the Best, Not for the Past
Too often we create home based on what we’ve known and what’s familiar. But that’s not always what’s best. True comfort often requires us to move beyond the past. For the optimal experience in home and in life, we need to strive for the best. This podcast is also available as a blog post on...
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Holy Home
“The place where you are standing is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5) Home is a holy place. Bidden or not bidden, God is present. Our homes are an axis between heaven and earth. How can we remember this, celebrate this, and welcome the sacred and Divine into our homes every day? This episode is also...
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Going Home
Sometimes going home is wonderful. Other times, not so much. Each going home is filled with expectation and hope. If our visit is good, home burrows further into our hearts and psyches. And if it is not, home loosens its grip. This episode is also available as a blog post on Wordpress at...
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Imprints of Home: Fragments We Carry, Wherever We Are
Why does one place feel like home and another place, while beautiful or lovely, does not? This has everything to do with imprints: unique details that become embedded in our psyches and woven into our hearts when our experiences are significant and good. You can find the print version of this…
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America & Home: The Greenwood Massacre
Almost 10,000 black Americans lost their homes in the Greenwood massacre of 1921. If you don’t know this history, you’re not alone. But it’s time that you do. This episode is also available as a blog post at JanPepplerHome.com and at Finding Home on Substack.com
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What No One Talks About
We all wrestle with anxieties, fears, and insecurities but we don't talk about these things. Just like we don't talk about poop, unless we're joking. This episode is also a blog post: https://janpepplerhome.com/2021/05/16/what-no-one-talks-about/
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Sweet Home Chicago
Our hometown is always a part of us, even when we move away. It is almost part of our genetic history. Even if I never live in Chicago again, I'll always be, in some way, a Chicagoan. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2021/03/07/sweet-home-chicago/
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Feeding Ducks
Sometimes the reasons we hold onto things are not always obvious. I recently unwrapped an old gift from my mother - a Hummel figurine from 1971. When I looked it up online and discovered the name for this image, everything finally made sense. The name turns out to be something I really need to...
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That was the River, This is the Sea - Dave Jannusch is home
This episode is in honor of a dear friend of over forty years who recently passed, transitioning from his body into the world beyond. As C.S. Lewis wrote in The Last Battle, this world is only a shadow or copy of the real world - the world which is beyond our ability to see now in our human form....
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The Women Who Came Before Us
The old women we know as grandmothers, great aunts, and elderly neighbors were once young. They were teenage girls, sisters, girlfriends, new mothers and wives. They felt the same things we feel and experienced the same desires and challenges that we face today. And they have stories to tell, if…
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Fierce Compassion
If we truly want to live in compassion, we must be decisive in our actions. We must remember to have compassion for ourselves as well as others. Bad behavior cannot be tolerated. Many thanks to Lama Tsultrim Allione and her book Wisdom Rising for a deeper understanding of compassion as strong and...
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In Memory of Dining Room Tables
Dining rooms apparently are a thing of the past and, more and more, people are no longer using dining tables. Ah, but dining tables are so much more than surfaces for eating! In this episode, I discuss why I believe dining tables are vessels for living, providing support and endless possibility....
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The Landscape of Home
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://janpepplerhome.com/2021/04/21/the-landscape-of-home/ I spent eleven weeks staring at the sea during Italy's Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. It was a lovely view yet eventually I longed for a landscape that was familiar to me. This is because the...
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