The Shari Rubinstein Show: Recent Episodes
The Shari Rubinstein Show
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! I am not unique. In the final analysis, every one of us has been dealt a bad hand. No matter how we try to put a pretty face on things, this is a broken world. Contrary to what the current alarmists are ranting, it is not […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! To be a hero, you have to hide who you really are. Behind every hero’s mask is an ordinary, flawed human being. We keep looking for people to be superheroes and to rush in brandishing their perfection to rescue us from the flashing swords and flaring […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! We watch ourselves in airports. Everyone is carrying or hauling bags. I find myself saying “excuse me,” “sorry,” incessantly. Rarely does anyone get angry. It’s what is expected. We excuse the bag bumps in that setting. But, as my husband was wont to say, we are […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! Grief’s a pretty sinister emotion. Doubt and fear are like a cruel blanket dampening even the smallest ray of hope. I don’t know how people make it without the Lord. It’s that I know God watches out for widows, that He wants to have his love […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! In the movie City Slickers, the old trail boss Curly held up one finger to indicate what the secret to life was. By the end of the movie, Billy Crystal felt he understood. This week, I got my own meaning to Curly’s cryptic adage. It’s not […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! Really!? They don’t happen that often, but oh, how they hurt. It usually takes a lot to trigger such nocturnal disturbances. This time it was primarily the old challenge – how to reconcile my “romantic” nature with the realties of my world. Where do romantic inclinations come […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! “The old man was at the bar making love to his tonic and gin.” A haunting line from “Piano Man.” It struck a chord today. Here we are looking for the cure to alcoholism and other destructive dependencies. We get a clue to the answer right in […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! Pictured Above: Mama Ross Mama Ross was my father’s mother. She has been gone for many years now, but her presence in my psyche lingers. Any time I try to take a moment to relax—without multi-tasking—I see her face, hear her voice. “Sharon, don’t you sit […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! “I didn’t mean to!” That has to be what most guilty parties claim when they are found out. What had seemed like a good idea for how to take care of a problem back yard, while considering the extreme drought our state is in, went horribly wrong. […]
☝️ podcast above transcription below 👇 … enjoy! Is there a difference? Don’t think so. How many ways do we have of separating ourselves from the reality of our lives. Arm’s length we stumble (toddle?) through life, daring not to touch, to allow ourselves intimacies. I’m least interested in why we do it – more […]