While Driving: Recent Episodes
silvia ialongo
Getting around the city driving my car helps me to relax. Thoughts arise and I never know if expressing them out loud will make order or add confusion, but I enjoy them both😊
This episode is about my experience of dealing with strangers during a one day yoga retreat in the countryside
Thanks to Frank Sinantra singing 'Killing me softly', I noticed the miracle that happebs when you recognize yourself in a song, and then I sing it
As the restaurants can stay open for dinner again, I could go out for a pizza and here I share my feelings about this "new" experience
Starting from the song I sang in the previous episode, I wonder how I can feel so much and, at the same time, being free and detached
In this episode I explain why in my opinion simplifying the graduation exams is a mistake and I sing Antonello Venditti's song 'Notte prima degli esami' (night before the exams)
Bringing my son to take an exam for getting the driving license, I had to deal with old style bureaucracy
A few days after going through an entire week without eating, I feel like reporting the weird consequences that I'm experiencing
I talk about the experience I'm having with fasting. I'm trying to follow the suggestions that Ruediger Dahlke is giving in his book about micro fasting
This episode, that was not recorded while driving, is about understanding yourself better, getting rid of something that doesn't match with you anymore, and being lost about what comes next
Here I talk about the connection among people who live together because they belong to the same family or for other reasons, and I sing Sasha Sloan's 'Only child'
Here I talk about my way of working with my colleagues and how I prefer to create a sort of intimacy with them
I watched the movie 'Roar', as Road Rage Randy suggested, and I got some ideas on how to deal with a little dog
Starting from my gratitude to Road Rage Randy for his voice message, I share some thoughts about how following some rules makes having true relationships more difficult
Sometimes recalling sweet memories feels good because those episodes contributed to make you the person that you are now. Roxette's song 'It must have been love' was the occasion to talk about a group of friends
Here I talk about my personal experience in dealing with my kids in the situations of saying them 'no' and of asking them to do something
Through the song 'Lucky' by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat I wonder if the connection your feelings let you experience is real or is something you made up
I talk about the importance of listening to yourself, not only to your physical needs, but also to your psychological impulses.
This is about my first experiences with tiktok and how I enjoy viral videos and can't stop watching them
There's a song that I really like and that perfectly matches my present mood. It's Jason Mratz's 'I'm yours'. Here I say how it makes me feel and sing the beginning of it
This is again about how to deal with bad mood and then I sing Lemon tree by Fool's Garden
Here I say that silence is of help to me in recovering from bad mood and then I sing Simon & Garfunkel's song 'the sound of silence'
Dido's song 'white flag' reminded me of my desire to learn English in order to understand movies and songs, and now I see that looking for that I got something greater
Here I say how enthusiastic I am about the results I'm having with orthokeratology and how psychology plays a role in the process
Here I talk about how much I love to sing with my friend Agnieszka and I sing part of the song we are singing together these days, which is Ed Sheeran's 'I see fire'
I'm proud to say that I'm on Instagram now and I'm exploring this world sharing content about making puzzles🧩
This episode is about how my interests grow, become passions and after a while their importance decreases until I quit, and what remains is me being grateful for the experience
I talk here of what I understood about jealousy and how it is not a way to express love
I sing in French again and I picked two songs of the French singer Zaz: 'Je veux' and 'Si jamais j'oublie'. But I recommend you to listen to Zaz's version of them😁
In this episode I sing Bilal Hassani's song 'Roi', which is partly in English and partly in French
In this episode I describe my experience with practicing yoga and a weird instinct of touching a stranger's hand
In this episode I mention an episode of the podcast I record with Vova (here is the link: https://anchor.fm/vladimir859/episodes/05---Love-elsksp ) and talk about missing hugs
In this episode I say something about regretting the end of a love story and how songs talk about that. I also sing Tracy Chapman's 'Baby can I hold you tonight?' And Bruno Mars' 'When I was your man'
Two songs are the occasion for me to talk about jealousy and feelings in general. One (Maria Mena's 'I don't wanna see you with her') is about suffering because of jealousy and the other (Astrid S's 'It's OK if you forget me') is about wanting to suffer for jealousy
Here I say that my way of loving changed and I sing John Legend's song 'All of me', that represents the old way
This is about realizing, thanks to Vova's comment, that my reaction to Gary Vee's speed is not related to him, but depends on something I have inside
Here I talk about and sing Christina Perry's song 'Human". Being human is just natural now, it doesn't feel painful as it used to be
Starting from a video in which Gary Vee (Gary Vaynerchuk) explains, in a damn fast way, how he takes decisions, I talk about how slow I am
This is another report of my experiment with orthokeratology. Today I had to work and here is how it went
I report here about the first day after starting orthokeratology, and incidentally I sing part of the Eagles' song 'hotel California'
This unpronounceable word refers to a new way of correcting visual impairments. I'm gonna try it and here I say what I learned about it
I can't help singing this song that makes me feel so emotional🥰 But please, listen to the original version by Highasakite, because mine can't transmit those emotions😆
This is the second episode about understanding: after struggling with understanding English, I talk about dealing with IT, which is supposed to be my job...
Here I talk about the experiences that made me get how to understand English after years of struggling with studying it
This episode is about an interview to an Italian politician who expressed her ideas against the government's anti-covid measures.
This episode is about the song 'A little bit yours' and how accepting your feelings feels like
I talk about not wanting and I wonder if I really don't want anything or I'm not there yet
In this episode I sing again and share some thoughts on how expecting a first kiss can prevent the magic that comes with it
This episode is about how my crazy hair caused me troubles with an aunt of mine and how talking about it helped me to see that she loves me
Here I sing spontaneously the first part of one of my fav songs and ask myself if I'm really shy as I used to think. I'm also experimenting with the tool I use for recording the podcast
This is an introduction to my podcast, recorded while driving around in my car. Here I talk about my decision to share a picture and some thoughts of mine on the Internet