Al Dennis, Age 44, Retired
144 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Join Al Dennis in his attempt to retire and stay retired with a little bit of net worth and a few more weeks of unEmployment Insurance coming to him from the government.
He thinks it's pretty easy. He would like to suggest that you change your notions of what 'retirement' is, then do it too.
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Episodes
Return Flaneur
August 21, 2021 22:38 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBIt cut out midway, and a first I cared ...
The mysterious phone call from a Nova Scotia number
June 01, 2021 19:46 - 1 minute - 1.72 MBIce Dawg loves all people.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Put him in the scuppers with the hose pipe on him.
May 07, 2021 18:16 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBThat's what you do with the DS. Sometimes an image can work better than a spiritual reading. This is what occurred today after I opened an email to see this image this morning.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Everybody Falls
May 05, 2021 15:40 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThere is just so much to be unsaid that I won't bother. In this episode we learn what apposite means. It might not mean what you think.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DIY Always a reason to give up.
April 13, 2021 14:20 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBDon't.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Who has seen me and my house? (with Cats)
April 11, 2021 16:08 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis podcast, like its title, contains all sorts of Saskatchewan literary amalgamation.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: I'm all through 'the Garden' (with dog)
April 10, 2021 14:33 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBLorna Crozier's touching, perfect little memoir has gotten me rambling about the passage of time. Ruminating, yearning to brumate.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Do minks hibernate?
April 09, 2021 14:57 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThru the Garden confirms itself as a Salvation Book.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DIY The nipple will dribble the harder you try!
April 08, 2021 16:18 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBGood talks this morning. Therapeutic. Getting to the heart of what makes me feel anything, think anything. TREEPLANTERLAND and the trials that came from it. I could have missed the pain, but I would've had to miss the dance.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DIY & RIP MR BEADS
April 07, 2021 19:30 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBROB, I LOVE YOU.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DIY, Boomerangs and Burning Woulds
April 06, 2021 15:23 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThe props wash in.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: D I Y
April 05, 2021 16:15 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBResuming after The Break DIY is the theme. The Spirit of Christ is the consideration. (Pictured is the dismantled cement mixer that I must now learn how to 'mantle')
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Talking Thru the Garden w/ my Mama. (as well as the quality of the Netflis Show, SUPERSTORE)
April 02, 2021 16:54 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBA nice little phone call with my Ma about the great book by Lornia Crozier, Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats). Lorna signed this book to me and I started reading on the night of my birthday. Her handwritten, pre-epigraph, to me. "one breath, one foot at a time on the path wherever it goes --"
NOTEBOOK HUKAMNAMA #5: The RED NOTEBOOK Sailboat penury, a surprise piece of fortune
March 26, 2021 22:47 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis Notebook is a goldmine and a wonder.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The Speed of Light is Such a Shame.
March 26, 2021 13:45 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBPictured is Canada's elusive prophet of folk, Raghu Lokanathan. His magnificent song, and the beautiful community of Wells, BC, should be enjoyed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq72SUln1QQ Here, now, is an excerpt from BEEFHAMTON: He could hear the men praying, chanting from another room. Andy’s heart swirled like a swallow trapped in a barn. Should he enter? He entered silently. He slipped out of his sandals. He cleaned his feet in a little basin. And his face and hands in another...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: As the mist leaves no scar
March 25, 2021 14:22 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBAs the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will Through windows in the dark The children come, the children go Like arrows with no targets Like shackles made of snow True love leaves no traces If you and I are one It's lost in our embraces Like stars against the sun As a falling leaf may rest A moment on the air So your head upon my breast So my hand upon your hair And many nights endure Without a moon or star So we will end...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Casting a Hex on myself
March 23, 2021 17:33 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBToday, in honour of locating a 1989 loonie, I cast a hex on myself. Turning to the I Ching, I ask: What are the underlying causes leading me to drink alcohol and will clearly identifying them lead me from anger to sobriety and peace? Okay, so I tried to cram a few questions into one consultation here.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: This one's called 'The Well'
March 22, 2021 16:30 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThe first good episode in a while. Oh, well ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clw_E53vFGk He is a wellspring of determination ..
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Secrets of Success, Raghu's Farmer.
March 21, 2021 15:04 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBhttps://www.amazon.com/Farmer/dp/B001BNJ0NS Meanwhile, I must get back to advising millionaires how to make more money.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Spring into the siesta
March 20, 2021 22:48 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIs it chronic clinical depression, or is that guy just having a siesta?
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Words, eating noises.
March 19, 2021 16:43 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBSurprised by waking up to minus six degrees centigrade, the host resumes his path. Eats, forgetting everything but the mixed bowl of KD and cream of leek soup.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: With your host Sue Donim
March 18, 2021 18:41 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBay?Pseudonomically speaking, who are you anywy
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Transitions, restructurings, things to do
March 17, 2021 16:26 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBSt Paddy's sobriety. New beginnings. The icicles from the leaky upstairs bathtub (pictured).
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Sensing plateaus, interpreting the birds.
March 16, 2021 17:02 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBAre these Canada Geese in the picture?
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The road is long but we're already here
March 15, 2021 14:52 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBDesiderata, why don't you come to your senses? You've been out riding fences for so long ...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Duke Blueberries and hanging out with my old shovel
March 14, 2021 14:34 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBIn the image is a picture of the Duke Blueberry bush. I'm going to see if I can't order some Duke Blueberry seedlings to be shipped here.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The minor shitshows are usually exorbitant blessings
March 13, 2021 14:17 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThe ducks I am trying to identify through a pair of the worlds worst binoculars in this episode are closest in appearance to a cross between a merganser and a an oldsquaw. Bill Aide would know.
Man Made. a poem written and read by Alex Ternowetsky
March 12, 2021 16:11 - 1 minute - 1.55 MBI believe that now, at last, the quality of the literature might improve. The tragedy in the loss of handwriting is not the loss of handwriting. Only those with the handwriting know. Handwriting is meditation. Handwriting contains blood, Nature is man made. Cities will pour into countrysides, electricity will pour into old bans, and old barns will fall into oceans, be raised, razed or remain jubilant wobbly... Water will touch underskirts, spritz plants. Slide down your han...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: What the heck is 'Spritz"? Ah ...!
March 12, 2021 15:11 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBLearning a new word, and rehearsing a poem.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A Retake, a Nocturne, a Renewal, a Home Base
March 12, 2021 00:56 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBI felt like a character in a Chekov for a while tonight. That's a good feeling. The sign in the picture was found in the basement. It dates back to the Gertrude Thurber days, when this place was called Tiverton Tidalview B & B. The B &B is gone, but the Tidalview remains.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Spinning, unravelling, settling
March 10, 2021 14:23 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBSpinning, unravelling, settling. Hopefully settling. Many rivers to cross.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Birthday, Anniversaries, Dreams
March 09, 2021 12:31 - 15 minutes - 14 MBMarch 9. The funny thing is, none of us should be at the banquet. Yet we are allowed to be at the banquet. And there is a banquet, and there is laughter, and there are many years to make milestones. Birthdays. Anniversaries. Dreams. And none of us should be at the banquet. Keep this in mind and you will understand humility: There is a banquet, we should not be at it, yet we are allowed to be at it and are at it. This feels as good as a belly laugh. (The picture does not really depict ...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Monday Sunlight, chopping wood in the sun
March 08, 2021 14:17 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThe picture is of the seaglass I collected yesterday in my humility walk to Israel Cove. Humility. I will still seek it today. Still weep a little inside.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Searching for Seaglass: A Morning Walk to Israel Cove
March 07, 2021 13:23 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBHave a joyful Sunday. Walk slowly. Appreciate.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Bandgi Nama
March 06, 2021 16:04 - 14 minutes - 13.9 MBSometimes we experience so much joy that we forget we are still in great pain. When the intensity of the joy departs, the pain is still there. It surprises us. It bites us again. When we are off the path of the superior person, even a tiny bit, we are more vulnerable to this pain, and we react to it poorly. The first thing to do is return to the path of the superior person. Be humble, shrink the ego, stretch, breathe, disengage from our pain. One way to do so is through Simran. That is, ...
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Rest in gentle peace O Walter, O Father of Canada
March 05, 2021 13:54 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBWalter Gretzky died on March 4, 2021. The image is the autography Walter Gretzky signed for my Mom when I met Walter in the Vancouver Park Hyatt lobby during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. I filmed this video in Vancouver 2010 seconds after Crosby scored. I believe this moment stemmed from the power of a Walter Gretzky hug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB-r55vp6yc #waltergretzky
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Thursday, March 4, 2021
March 04, 2021 13:49 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBApparently, there was no March 3. Is that a glitch in the matrix? This podcast has nothing to do the fact that there was no March, 3, 2021. That has nothing to do with me. New ideas. New time frame? New life.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The Bloom of the Blue Notebook
March 02, 2021 15:16 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBI found the image while looking for an image of the elusive Blue Notebook. It embarrasses me to admit that I did write this. I'm sharing it because it feels like something I would share on Instagram and it might be general enough to like it.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: March 1st, 1st month begets 365 Tao reflections
March 01, 2021 14:01 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBLunar eclipse, a liminal moment. Feel the light shining inside you. Continue the path, resolute like one crossing a wintry stream. Joyous of heart.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The full moon after the full moon. The interval is where the action is.
February 28, 2021 14:40 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBAfter the moon, reflect.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: Seagull balm, Saturday. And the moon is full.
February 27, 2021 18:59 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBEnjoy the full moon. May it reflect upon you reflecting upon your life.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: What does it mean when a skylight flies away from your house?
February 26, 2021 14:53 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBFor posterity's sake, here are the lyrics to my song to Castro: O to run all night! O to run all baby! Castro baby, fifteen miles, O you do not know... (ch.. ch.. ch..) O you do not know! (ch..ch..ch..) O you do not know! Where's that baby? I don't know. O you do not know! (ch..ch..ch..) O to run all night! O to run all baby! How many babies do you know? O you do not know
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Prayer, Yoga, Tolstoy, Intention, Commitment, Gratitude, Belle, Sebastian, Sleep the Clock Around
February 25, 2021 15:20 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBHere is the great song Sleep the Clock around by Belle & Sebastian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mB8V9Lz7u0