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Maria and I have  decided to create a weekly podcast called “Awoke: Life At Bedlam Farm.” We hope to launch it early in April. The podcast will be free.

Maria and I will do it together, we will talk about our lives together, our “awakening” as creative people seeking a life of fulfillment, and our lives with one another, and with dogs, donkeys, sheep, chickens, and barn cats in rural America.

We share a life of creativity and purpose. I’ve asked Mannix Marketing, the designer of both of our blogs, to help setting up the podcast, which will be accessible through a button on our blogs.

They are looking into it.

Our tentative title is “Awoke: Life At Bedlam Farm.”

There will be no charge, but people who like the podcast and find it valuable, can make a donation or contribution to support the podcast if they wish.

Maria has been appearing each week on my weekly broadcast “Talking To Animals,” and we enjoy appearing together and talking about our lives with dogs and other animals.

We’ve also gotten a strong response to our talks together, they have inspired us to finally get moving on a podcast, something we’ve talked about for several years.

A podcast – an increasingly popular form of media – is a digital media file distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players, smartphones and personal computers.

There are millions of podcasts now, the medium has become enormous.

The podcast itself is a particular type of webcast which, like “radio,” can mean either the content itself or the method by which it’s distributed, the latter called podcasting.

People can subscribe to this kind of digital feed by submitting their address a distributor like Itunes or Podcatcher, which is software downloaded to your device. Unlike radio, podcasts are not in real time, you can listen whenever you please.

Some podcasts, on hosts like “TalkShoe,” can be live and interactive, and can receive phone calls, like a radio show. People could sign up and participate in the podcast with permission.

We’re looking into that format as well as the convention podcast, which is a file of Maria and I talking. We could read and discussions questions e-mailed to us.

I think this is an exciting and timely stop for us to take, our farm is a deeply spiritual and special place, from Maria’s walk in the woods to our love of donkeys and dogs, to the passion we both have for our creativity.

We have a lot to say to one another, and to you, about our lives. Many people have asked me about a podcast. It’s time.

My radio show, “Talking To Animals,” inspired us to move forward, the program is going well, which is something of a miracle, but in the event it fails, or the station is sold, we’ll have an interactive backstop in place. I don’t wish to lose what we have built up there.

Maria and I will be in touch with the details as they emerge.