Episodes

Sept. 9, 2023

Listener Challenge: Embark on an Experiment

Episode #113 Original Air Date: 10 September 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 11 minutes An addendum to the last episode on Experiments. In this episode I more explicitly encourage the listener to design one's own experiments! Embark! Living and Learning, Doug
Aug. 28, 2023

Experiment Results: A Year without Home Internet

Episode #112 Original Air Date: 27 August 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 28 minutes - What is the nature of experiment in our lives? How does experiment help our local culture evolve, our local rituals and habits? - In this episode,
July 7, 2023

How to Host a Skewer BBQ Feast

Episode #111 Original Air Date: 7 July 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 32 minutes The first Weather of the Mind cooking episode! Learn some tips for hosting a 20 person bbq gathering featuring skewers! Living and Learning, Doug
May 5, 2023

Your Annual Play Check-Up

Episode #110 Original Air Date: 5 May 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes Grab some pen and paper, for it’s time to reflect on the state of play in your life. Join us for your annual play check-in, your annual play self-assessment. Living and Learning, Doug
March 3, 2023

Poker as Emotional Health Training

Episode #109 Original Air Date: 3 March 2023 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 29 minutes - This episode features some stories and some reflection on the topic of Poker as it pertains to emotional health. Over the past 7 months,
April 13, 2022

Story, Character, and Fitness – An Interview w/ Jake Seegers

Episode #107 Original Air Date: 13 April 2022 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 58 minutes Guest: Jake Seegers, founder of Fitquest, which combines role-playing and fitness pursuits. (contact him: fitquestgm@gmail.com) Music sample: "Flute Loop" - Beastie Boys. RIP MCA. The Weather of the Mind pod is back! It has been a challenging winter up here in Ithaca. More details on that in a future pod. This episode features Ithaca-based innovator and all-around nice guy, Jake Seegers. His work cau...
Sept. 30, 2021

Tribute to a Mighty Oak

Episode #106 Original Airdate: 30 September 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes - Special Episode... Please share with your nature-loving peeps... a great episode to introduce new people to this podcast... -
Aug. 27, 2021

Plants, Plantwork, and Emotional Health II

Episode #105 Original Airdate: 27 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes - Interview with Kaylea Forsythe. Part II. - We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender a f...
Aug. 5, 2021

Plants, Plantwork, and Emotional Health – w Kaylea Forsythe

Episode #104 Original Airdate: 5 August 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 21 minutes - Interview with Kaylea Forsythe. Part I of II. - We talk about how a blossoming relationship with plants - from houseplants to plantwork - can help engender...
July 13, 2021

Our Relationship with the Sun

Episode #103 Original Airdate: 13 July 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 36 minutes - How is your relationship to the Sun? Do you know the basics... how far away the sun is? How large the sun is? - How is your relationship to your own skin?
June 11, 2021

The False Peak of Post-Corona

Episode #102 Original Airdate: 11 June 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 22 minutes - The pandemic is winding down in the United States. - But the repercussions are rumbling... through our own selves, our towns and neighborhoods,
May 7, 2021

WM 101 – Past, Present, and Future

Episode #101 Original Airdate: 7 May 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 34 minutes - Weather of the Mind 101. Past, Present and Future. A reintroduction of sorts. - Included in the 'past' section of this pod...
April 1, 2021

100th Episode Party

Episode #100 Original Airdate: 1 April 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 24 minutes - A celebration of sorts... where I give some thanks to a handful of friends and brainstorm pals for their support over the past 2.5 years. -
March 16, 2021

Einstein & How Biography Can Expand Your World

Episode # 099 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 March 2021 Length: 22 minutes - Weather of the Mind #99 notes - Einstein – Biography Review 3.16.21 - In this pod I aim to provide a bit of a book review for Walter Isaacson’s Einstein.
Feb. 17, 2021

How to Build a Non-Religious Sabbath Ritual

Episode # 98 Original Airdate: February 17, 2021 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 30 minutes - ((A real solid episode... much food for thought)) - The key question I pose to you, the listener: - Growing up,
Jan. 28, 2021

The Validator, School Design brainstorms (homework, too)

Episode #097 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 28 January 2021 Length: 29 minutes - Main topics: - Two homework assignments: 1) In the trenches reflection on our times in the middle of winter of Corona II, and 2) design your own school,
Dec. 31, 2020

Casual Chat #2 – Nests, Bikes, Extend the Season

Episode #096 Original Airdate: 31 December 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 25 minutes - References: - https://www.weatherofthemind.org/practical-skill-new-years-resolutions/
Dec. 9, 2020

Casual Conversation #1 (let’s digest some life together)

Episode #095 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 9 December 2020 Length: 24 What to make of these bizarre times we are living through… threats to democracy… corona times … heading into a tough winter challenge.
Oct. 30, 2020

Gail Sheehy’s Passages + Election Thoughts

Episode #094 Original Airdate: Oct 30 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 17 minutes References: Passages. Predictable Crises in Adult Life. 1976
Oct. 16, 2020

Sports, Games, and Rituals. Cultural Spaces We Love (w/ David Foster Wallace).

Episode #93 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 16 October 2020 Length: 24 minutes Reference: “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart” David Foster Wallace. From the book Consider the Lobster. 2006. Originally published Aug 30, 1992.
Oct. 1, 2020

3 Thought Experiments to Reveal Your Guiding Principles

Episode #092 Original Airdate: 1 October 2020 Produced by: Doug Krisch Length: 23 minutes - - References: - "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of various societies] toward success or failure: long-term plan...
Sept. 17, 2020

5 Year Plan III: Know when to Hold’em, when to Fold’em

Episode #091 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 17 September 2020 Length: 30 minutes - - References - "Rastaman Vibrations" Bob Marley. 30 April 1976. - "Two types of choices seem to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of vario...
Sept. 10, 2020

9/11 with David Foster Wallace (Fall Book Club)

Episode #090 Produced by: Doug Krisch Original Airdate: 10 September 2020 Length: 23 minutes References David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays