Exploration of The Happiness Initiative through a visit with John de Graaf & Laura Musikanski. Laura is Executive Director of Sustainable Seattle. John has created 15 PBS documentaries including the well-known Affluenza. He is Executive Director of Take Back Your Time.

Tret Fure has a rich and lengthy career as a singer/songwriter, starting at 16 in Midwest coffehouses, moving to Berkeley and performing with Spencer Davis, as a force in the blossoming field of Women's Music, and founding her own label, Tomboy Girl. She's on a path guided by Light & Angels and her heart shines through her music.

Howard Shalowitz is the hazzan (cantor) for Beit Shira Synagogue. His experience with music, both Jewish & non-Jewish, is impressive, including the singing telegram he delivered to the renowned opera star Luciano Pavarotti. He's served as hazzan with several prominent synagogues across the country and beyond. He shares programs on Jewish music widely as part of the Ambassador Program of the Cantors Assembly.

Howard Shalowitz is the hazzan (cantor) for Beit Shira Synagogue. His experience with music, both Jewish & non-Jewish, is impressive, including the singing telegram he delivered to the renowned opera star Luciano Pavarotti. He's served as hazzan with several prominent synagogues across the country and beyond. He shares programs on Jewish music widely as part of the Ambassador Program of the Cantors Assembly.

Glen Retief paints vivid pictures and addresses vital questions of identity & social justice in The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood. His stories deal with race, apartheid, homosexuality and homophobia, physical violence, sexual abuse - and much more - and he leads us on a journey of discovery and insight. And I learned that Post-Apartheid South Africa was the first country to protect the right of same-sex marriage.

Jaime Meyer is the author of Drumming the Soul Awake. He's an average Joe, a wild-eyed visionary, and leads "drumming things" in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Alice Di Micele has a deep connection to Spirit in nature, especially through the element of water. With 12 recordings to her name, she's been prolific and profound. Raised Catholic, nature is now her church.

The topic is race, racism & religion, both within Quaker meetings and in America at-large. Paul Kriese co-ediited Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, and he draws on his experience growing up in a black neighborhood and his academic formation in Political Science and Peace Studies to shine the Light on race relations.

Paul Kriese co-edited Black Fire along with Hal Weaver & Stephen Angell. The book contains writings by 18 remarkable African American Quakers across 3 centuries.

Featured Music:
Number One In America - David Massengill

Larry Heagle has created serious & humorous music for the Midwest for 33 years. He's mostly Irish, with all the sentiment and humor that frequently comes with those origins, though I doubt that he'd ever blame anyone else for his sometimes-bawdy sense of humor.