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Commune with Jeff Krasno

135. Commusings: Be Ready

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Each week Jeff has been writing a Sunday article called Commusings where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Today’s episode is the tale of the home birth of Jeff’s middle daughter and underscores the one thing in life that is certain: uncertainty. To receive the Commusings newsletter, you can go to onecommune.com and sign up at the bottom of the page.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Commune podcast. This is Jeff Krasnow.

0:10.6

Many of you may receive my weekly Sunday commuting article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the sociopolitical.

0:17.8

And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these articles and release it as a bonus episode.

0:23.5

So today's podcast is derived from the article I wrote about the birth of Andean, my middle daughter.

0:29.9

I'm not exactly sure what you call the act of simultaneously crying and laughing.

0:35.0

But that's the state in which I wrote it.

0:39.0

If you're interested in receiving my weekly article, sign up at Onecommon.com. And if you're not totally sick of me, you can

0:44.7

follow me on Instagram at Jeff Krasno. So without further ado, here is this week's commuting

0:51.2

entitled, Be Ready.

0:53.2

Ready.

1:06.0

Be Ready.

1:16.6

Skyler and I have been hitched at the hip for 32 years of otherworldly bliss over three decades of Pocodots and moonbeams. Do you want to know the secret?

1:18.6

Sure you do. Don't tell anyone, but we have sex almost every day.

1:25.6

Almost on Monday. Almost on Tuesday. Insert but I'm dumbching.

1:33.6

This flaccidate joke was Wayne Dyer's opening line for years. He admittedly nicked it from

1:40.7

nutrition pioneer Jack La Lane, who opened the first fitness gym in Oakland,

1:46.0

California in 1936. Hence, I feel absolved for pilfering it here. Wayne was my first spiritual teacher.

1:55.7

I met him once backstage when he lectured at Wanderlust in Lake Tahoe. After a frivolous chat about how

2:02.5

nothing real ever changes, he reached out with his warm catchers mid of a hand and said,

2:08.7

Jeff, stay close to the work, and be ready. There's hard evidence that Skyler and I exceeded the

2:17.1

almost at least three times.

2:19.7

Skyler, who was herself born at home, never questioned where she wanted to birth our babies.

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