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The Hartmann Report

Strategies for Facing Not-So-Merry Thoughts During the Holidays

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sitting in for Thom Hartmann, guest-host Jefferson Smith turns the discussion to mindful thoughts and intentional words to navigate the sometimes stressful self-reflection that comes with holiday gatherings. Listeners call-in with questions on the meaning of rhetoric, the impact of right-wing propaganda, and the horror of violence in the Israeli-Gaza conflict.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.0

The first poem I've ever memorized.

0:22.0

Abu Ben Adam.

0:25.0

A beu Ben Adam may his tribe increase, awoke one night in a deep dream of peace and saw within the moonlight of his room making it rich and like a

0:34.7

Lillian bloom an angel writing a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made but Adam Bolden

0:40.4

to the presence of the room he said what rightest thou? The vision raised its

0:44.3

head and with a look made of all sweet a court answered the names of those who love

0:50.2

the Lord and is mine one, said Abu. The angel replied, not so.

1:04.0

Abu spoke more low, but Sheerly still had said,

1:07.0

I prayed thee then,

1:09.0

write me as one who loves his fellow men.

1:13.0

The angel wrote and vanished,

1:15.0

Return the next night with a great awakening light and at

1:18.0

and showed the names whom love of God had blessed and lo,

1:21.0

Ben Adam's name, let all the rest.

1:25.0

This is the Tom Hartman program, I'm Jefferson Smith.

1:28.0

We know that this time of the holidays can be a time for stress

1:32.0

and a time for stress and a time for reflection and not always

1:35.4

that reflection isn't always positive isn't always optimistic that's one of the

1:40.9

reasons why we gather this community, why we appreciate you so much.

1:45.0

Something occurred to me as I was reflecting, when I'm trying to reflect on the good.

1:51.0

Brain Coach Brad, who's a friend of the program,

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