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The Right Words

by The underlying foundation of personal and community health is a sensible, honest philosophy of well being for all.

A podcast of viewpoints in essays, verse, voice--and soon--interviews. therightwords.substack.com

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  1. About A Letter to Dr. Dawkins

    Dear Viewer:I hope you arrived here well and ready to contemplate! Thanks for coming. Here I discuss—while going off on tangents about social media and pay walls (and a few other things), Dr. Richard Dawkins, the eminently erudite and moral Cambridge professor of biology, famous atheist, lecturer...

  2. Podcast 15: Thoughts on Political Violence

    Writing, Recording and Image ("For The Collateral Expendable") Copyright 2017 - 2024 Carl Atteniese II / All rights reserved. More below:This image was captured at the World Trade Center Memorial, of a portion of one of the embankments that surround one of the two former foundations which once...

  3. Podcast 14: Encounter at Anguk

    Welcome to The Right Words Podcast. I'm Carl Atteniese. Anguk is an area adjacent to Insa dong, Seoul, where I lived for a time in the nineties—in the capital city of South Korea. I later moved on to other fascinating locales in that surprising, North-east Asian peninsula nation, but something...

  4. Podcast 13: Trump And Other Hooligans

    Another version of this is at Wordpress, where my blog is, here. This is a late posting. It’s been on You Tube since November 13, 2024. I also look terrible in it, because this is before I shaved my head. I’m not bald; I just don’t want to deal with hair for a while, as life has been very...

  5. Podcast 12: Why Not to Lie

    NOTE to THE LISTENER:Dear Listener:Thank you for being here. This is podcast is a primer for conversation; as such, there are generalizations in this essay that could be developed or further explained in a long-form discussion. Keeping in mind the theme of this podcast and my philosophy…

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  6. Podcast 11: Zen 1

    © Copyright 2023 Carl Mando Atteniese / All rights reserved. In Zen 1, Carl—AKA “Mando”—explains why we sit in meditation, and the misconceptions about that in terms of Zen; he briefly teaches how to meditate in this primer for future lessons—and describes benefits (often confused as the initial...

  7. Podcast 10: I Don’t Say

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therightwords.substack.com

  8. Podcast 9: A "Good Morning!" from Afar

    Written, Produced and Performed by Carl “Mando” Atteniese, Copyright 2023 / All rights reserved. Intro & Outro music: Electronic Future Beats by Cubesounds & Featured track selection: Winning Elevation by Hot Music for Pixabay online. Special thanks to Hecham Dierdari, Nancy Atteniese Gerber &…

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  9. Podcast 8: "Believe What You Want"?: Part 3

    by Carl Atteniese II This is part three in my series called “Believe What What You Want”, questioning whether this concept is hurting us.In my last installment in this series, I mentioned that, because seemingly innocuous concepts are accepted as believable—or accepted as non-problematic, as...

  10. Podcast 7: Beyond The Fishbowl

    This poem can also be read here. Beyond The Fishbowl Crossfield flew across the barrier* Then Shepard rocketed so high And of Gagarin and Kamarov before them– What did they feel? Not ‘why?’Truly, there is no membrane; We live on a gas-ensconced globe, Spinning and wobbling ’bout its axis…

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  11. Podcast 6: "Believe What You Want"? Part 2

    The text of this essay will be published in the newsletter for subscribers. Alternately, you can go to my medium account—but that version needs an update. Why not subscribe and have all your right words in one place?Writing, Narration, Art and Production by & Copyright Carl Atteniese 2022/All...

  12. Podcast 5: To The Memory of Astro Walt Cunningham

    ‘Don’t’ Rest in Peace... Astro Walt! Now, unbound Beyond Terra's orbit — You can reach the Jovian moons! And— Returning to this watery green— And cloud-swept Earth— Make visit at coveted Mars… Leaving again—with No loss for delta V— Your new freedom can take you Tween the stars! Thank you—for…

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  13. Podcast 4: "Believe What You Want"? Part 1

    The argument reaches its end, and one of you says it; it is the point in time in the conversation at which the speaker realizes that the listener is not going to see reason–in the way that the speaker delineated it. It’s a soft insult or “micro-aggression” to suggest, in other words, that the...

  14. Podcast 3: Bolt The Door

    Bolt the doorOn once dark agesWhich in sinister drafts do pryBlowing down the steps of justiceThoughtless, lovelessFrom on highThrough the missing words of sagesRobed, they poise To rend our lightHaving loosed the hinge on ragesTheir inked-clawsOur laws rewrite NOTE: The views you may glean from...

  15. Podcast 2: When A Loved One Dies

    We don’t have to feel we have lost someone; in fact, it’s the opposite…. You can read this poem here. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS*Profile image of Carl………..…Marc Longmire*Founding Contributor………….Hicham Derdari*Art Life Contributor…………….Professor Sahara ShinMusic Licensed by Pixabay: 1. Electronic Future...

  16. Podcast 1: Words Matter

    Performance, production and art Copyright Carl Atteniese 2022 / All rights reserved. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit therightwords.substack.com

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A podcast of viewpoints in essays, verse, voice--and soon--interviews.

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