The Fiddle and the Harp

I'm DJing tonight on The Fiddle and the Harp for our Fall Pledge Drive between 5 and 8pm ET In Provincetown. Send me your Irish music! If you are a local musician email me and maybe we can get you on the radio. Peachtpandora@yahoo

I take requests: 508-487-2619

Does screen time cause ADHD? Does today's addiction to social media create a breakdown in communication? Has our technology created adverse changes in behavior and communication? Speech language pathologist and University of Massachusetts/Amherst Associate Professor Dr. Pat Mercaitis weighs in this morning at 9am ET streaming at WOMR.org

International Women's Day 2016

Our theme at Outermost Community Radio for this year's 24 hours of International Women's Day programming is Untold Stories/Amazing Legacies. We are celebrating with original programming (and Democracy Now) and all women DJs.

This is our tentative schedule thus far. I belong to the 3-person core IWD Committee. I'm super excited to be bringing educational and diverse women's voices to the radio for a fantastic day!

In addition to the schedule below, several 5-Minute Cape Cod Women’s History Segments from Susan Lindquist will be plugged in. Women are underrepresented in every sector of our society, in every institution. From government to the music industry, there is a huge dearth. The climate for women in those places is largely toxic and exploitative. In our small way we hope to bring women's history and stories to the forefront, because the more we are seen and heard, the more empowered we become, and the greater personal and societal changes can be made. Women's stories and history is systematically suppressed and buried in our cultural narrative.
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12am – 1am "Babes in Boyland" with Anne Levine
Description: Anne Levine will play clips of comedienne pioneers including Belle Barthe, Joan Rivers, Moms Mabely, and Phyllis Diller.

1am – 2am “Funny Stories with Amazing Women” with Michelle Crone & Guests
Description: Michelle Crone interviews three feminist comedians and they share funny stories about what it is to be a woman.

2am – 3am “Bite This Rossi Marathon” with Chef Rossi

3am – 4am “Celtic Beat” with Dinah Mellin
Description: DJ Dinah Mellin shares music and history on Celtic music’s signature sound.

4am - 5am “Immigration into New York City” with Pia Young
Description: Immigration into NYC and immersion into an English-speaking community.

5am – 6am “Christine Ernst Stand-Up”
Description: Comedian and spoken word performer Christine Ernst tells Dinah Mellin her outrageous stories. We also play spoken word clips.

6am – 9am "Brand New Day" with Kathy Tarr

9am – 9:30am "Talking Back" with Paula Sperry

9:30 – 12:30pm "Roots n' Offshoots" with Carol Courneen
Description: "roots" music and history with Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Etta James, Wanda Jackson, etc, and those current artists who have been influenced by pioneers. Guess the artist call-in game.

12:30pm - 1pm “Name That Tune” with Char Priolo
Description: 60s women vocalists and their history.

1pm – 4pm "The Latest Score" with Canary Burton
Description: Women's classical music through the ages and a phone interview with a composer.

4pm – 5pm “Democracy Now” with Amy Goodman

5pm – 6pm “What is Feminism for Today’s Youth?” with Siobhan Hemeon-McMahon
Description: Student Voices and Modern Pop Vocalists

6pm – 8pm “Female Poets in World Music” with Sandra Hemeon–McMahon
Description: Latin American and World Poets whose poetry has been put to music.

8pm – 9pm “Mama Africa: The Pioneering Women of Modern Latin Music” with DJ-B
Description: DJ B Explores the African roots of modern Latin music.

9pm – 9:30pm “Helping Girls Soar” with Brenda Conlan
Description: Prevention Specialist Brenda Conlan discusses helping girls stay sober and avoid tobacco use.

9:30pm to 10pm “Out Late” with Diana Di Gioia and Melody Massi
Description: Diana Di Gioia and Melody Massi discuss gender identity and sexuality over their life times and play three songs on the topic.

10pm - 12am "Soul Infused History" with Catherine Graciano & Pandora Peoples
Description: All-Women Soul and R&B bands. Archeologist Vicki Noble’s Top 10 Little Known Heroines. Native American Women’s History. Transmedia performance artist and cult classic Phoebe Legere presents her Top 10 Little Known Heroines.

Healing Wisdom This Week

Singer songwriter Jordan Renzi gets spiritual with me on Thursday at 9am ET at Womr 92.1 fm in Provincetown and WFMR 93.1 fm in Orleans.

Brazilian Music with Cla da Bossa Nova

Super excited the talented that Rayssa Ribeiro (pronounced Hy-issa He-berro) and Tad Price of Cla da Bossa Nova will be performing on Healing Wisdom this Thursday morning at 9am ET on WOMR 92.1 fm in Ptown and streaming at http://womr.org

Looking forward to my upcoming poetry feature on February 13th at 1pm at the Brewster Ladies Library. Come one, come all. We have live music with guitarist Claudia Wellington and cellist Ellen Waters Sullivan. Carole A. Stasiowski will be the spotlight performer. There will be a music and poetry sign up.

Also, collaborating with some musicians. Hoping it goes well. Inhabiting songs is like channeling ghosts. It can be a quintessential experience of surrender. Like laying in the middle of a Medieval Cathedral and feeling the pensive saints with piercing eyes and the majestic angels in flight. Rainbow sunshine speckling the tears and sweat soaked wooden benches. The incantations and mumbled prayers layered like lacquer from centuries of belief and disbelief. The ecstatic evocations and moans of humanity ascending and descending, inhaling and exhaling. Falling in love with art. Being enveloped by beauty.

Cronos told me that I need to revisit my interest in writing Ophelia as a sword wielding tart. Someday.

Neptune says, if you haven't been to the bottom of the sea and back, you haven't really lived. But he would say that.

Live Music on Healing Wisdom

Live music with guitarist Mark van Bork Thursday on Healing Wisdom helping us to say goodbye to 2015 bright and early at 9am ET. Enjoy a blend of jazz, blues, and funky soul. He will be bringing in a New a Year with his trio VB and the Buzz in PTown Friday night. Mark teaches at Emerson College and studied at Berklee.

Chiropractor Mitch Tishler on Healing Wisdom

This week on Healing Wisdom I speak with Mitch Tishler about his book, "Me Finally: Navigating Life with an Open Heart". We discuss Seeing With the Heart, having a soul perspective, and Cape Cares, a medical relief organization he co-founded. Streaming at 9am ET on http://Womr.org WOMR 92.1 fm in Provincetown, WFMR 93.1-fm in Orleans.

What is the Single Most Important Ingredient to Healthy Living?

My next guest has the answer.

What did Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan have in common? They all sought out the advice and friendship of my next guest. This Thursday on Healing Wisdom, Doctor of Oriental Medicine author Dr. David Kearney shares his secrets from 40 years of practice.


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Quantum Physics and the Metaphysics of the Ancient Platonists

Award winning author Dr. John Spencer discusses how quantum physics has its roots with the ancient metaphysical Platonists and the pratfalls of both reductionist science and new age anti-realism. Intriguing, fascinating stuff only on Healing Wisdom. John Spencer's Interview

Red Tent Temple Movement

Next week on Healing Wisdom ALisha Starkweather and I discuss third wave feminism, the sacred feminine, women's solidarity, and the red tent movement. Starkweather will fill us in on the happenings at the Women's Parliament of World Religions' recent symposium in Utah last month. Healing Wisdom, Thursday at 9am ET on 92.1 WOMR-fm in Provincetown, streaming at http://Womr.org

Honoring Your Ancestors with Lozen, Apache Medicine Woman and Midwife

Between Samhain and Dia De Los Muertos the veil between the spirit world and this physical plain is very thin. Traditionally, this is a time of scrying, using prophetic powers, celebrating your ancestors and connecting with those on the other side.

Here are pics from my photoshoot with Juhl. Today we honor the life of Lozen, a medicine woman and midwife turned warrior and protectress of her people. There is a lot of misinformation and mythology surrounding the relations between native indigenous people and white settlers. The cavalry often showed up in the middle of the night and murdered women and children while the men were away, sometimes on Reservation Land, before moving the remaining Natives in the morning to other reservations or prison camps. Lozen defended her people, and used her psychic sense to gain knowledge about the enemy. I believe the collective soul of Native Americans must be healed and mended for all that they endured standing up for peace, justice and the right to their homeland, but I wonder at the collective soul of their tormentors' whose souls will forever be haunted.

In Wicca, it is believed that whatever you put out into the world comes back threefold. The concept is similar to dharma. Gratitude for your ancestors' many gifts and appreciation for their struggles is important and helps souls stay at peace, or find it. Listen to your angels, ancestors and spirit guides, you owe it to them! Vibrate with what is good and holy on the earth. Celebrate life and pray for cosmic allignment, truth and justice to prevail. Pray that light is shed on the darkest recesses of humanity and that consciousness, compassion, humanity and love wins over all.

The Witching Hour and My Mother the Moon

The eighties gaudy neon extravagance, big hair and anti-intellectualism stumbled into the nineties. It was the summer on Venice Beach, when the morning maritime fog roles in over the edges of civilization, before inlanders would make a lazy mad dash to stake their claim at a jacked up parking spot, a patch of hot sand, and all the Ray's pizza and churros they and their families can stuff down before dragging broken baby strollers and lawn chairs over fireworks-and-old-gum-stained cracked sidewalks on their smoky exoduses home. Their backpacks full of Bart Simpsons t-shirts, Blue Blockers, Bob Marley buttons and nag champa.

Little did they know of the marine layer and quiet of dawn, not of the fresh ocean winds that their ghastly stalling cars, Banana Boat tans, and cheap cologne vanquished. They came for the spectacles: homeless veterans beat boxers with psychic pets, old gypsy quad skaters in bikinis, drunken piano players, hip-hopping glass-walkers and the skateboarding torso man. I was in fifth grade, going into sixth. So skinny, I could be mistaken for an adult woman at a distance. Before my chubby awkward phase and my sexual awakening, before I adored anything BUT BBC period films, Motown, Arthurian era romance, Shakespeare and Baroque churches. I'd read The Witches by Roald Dahl, and I was pretty sure I was one. It would be a year before I wore a bra, but my breasts were hardly bigger than they are now. I caved when boys became fascinated with my resistance to doing the things pubescent girls do. The stinky boys who smelled like morning breath, gym socks, old pee and Tide, insisted on discussing my nipples with loud voices amplified by the stucco walls that defined our unconventional basketball court. Hate is a strong word. My dreams always kept me sane. Corinthian columns, Rosetta Stones, stained glass Cathedral windows, the Globe Theatre, the Louvre.

My mother was away the day I woke up in a gooey, mess of brown clotted menstrual blood. It looked like a lifetime of repressed vitality thickly coating utilitarian pastel underwear, hard to imagine coming from a girl of eleven. My father insisted amid my panicked screams that I had shit myself, and that my intestines weren't descending through my vagina. After being informed that I had bled from my vagina, I was euphoric. Much less shameful that shitting ones self. I was just doing what every woman who had every lived had done before me. I felt I had inherited some legacy, something richer than gold. My body was healthy and it possessed knowledge beyond my understanding, beyond words. My mother helped me to feel proud and lucky, against the jeers of grown men, the creeping lurkers eyeing young girls on every street and the mean, stinky boys who seemed to have inherited canned attitudes about women and their bodies from dark 1950s men's clubrooms. I had to confront with new autonomy when I returned to school for 6th grade.

Rites of passage had intrigued me. I was spellbound by Coming of Age traditions in National Geographics articles. I decided to create a ceremony, based in Celtic tradition and went to work researching and casting the parts among my mother's friends: High Priestess, Mother, Maiden, Crone, et cetera. What a blessing it was to be empowered in a circle of women, in Magu State Park, on that August day!

Ceremony is so important, for it acknowledges the mystical, magical ways of our Universe, and honors our place in it, our unique and collective paths and gifts. Continuing in the tradition of the grandmothers, I am happy that my path has helped me to reconnect other people, women most especially, to a space they are awake to their creativity and soul's purpose. The culture is so fragmented, cynical, adversarial, divided and devicive that claiming our birthrights as spiritual, intuitive, loving and compassionate beings is quite an accomplishment!

I am excited to offer Goddessing Ceremony next week at Birthwell LA!