December 29, 2007

This week Mike goes it alone as the rest of the soft slacker crew can't hang with the demands of the holiday season.
In the first hour Mike will discuss the situtaion in Pakistan, the economy and the Presidential campaign as well as spining some music.
In the second hour Robert Shafer joins Mike from Dallas, TX for a hour of sports. Robert and Mike will discuss the NFL playoffs, the Miami Dolphins hiring of Bill "Big Tuna"Parcells, the baseball steroid sitution and whatever else pops up.

December 22, 2007

It's almost Christmas and Wake Up and Live celebrates this week with Bongo Boy and Tony providing some live in studio music in the first hour.

At the top of our second hour, we've the opportunity and honor of talking with Jean Houston, renowned author, scholar, philosopher and teacher. A founder of the Human Potential Movement, Jean's path has intersected with people from Joseph Campbell to Margaret Meade and even a year (unknowingly)with Teilhard de Chardin at the age of 13 in New York City.

Jean has authored over twenty books her two latest being "A Mythic Life" and "Mystical Dogs." Recently in a week's span, she addressed the Festival of Faiths conference in Louisville; the Spirituality and Children conference in Chattanooga and the Annual Theosophical conference in Atlanta. Next year will be the 25th year of Jean's facilitating Mystery Schools with two continuing programs outside NYC and another at IONS in Petaluma. In addition, Jean is a United Nations consultant and directs Social Artistry in Ashland, Oregon.

As Jean is fond of saying, "We're so much more than dreary little egos dragging around bags of encapsulated skin. " Join us as we get Jean's perspective on these times in which we're living and how we can engage our lives personally and nationally on a mythic level.

Check out Jean's website where you can listen at no cost to talks and lectures (under Audio Library) and read of Jean's goings on. Go to: http://www.jeanhouston.org/ and in case you miss Saturday's show, it will be archived with several prior shows at www.seedsthestory.com/wakeup

December 15, 2007

In this season in which we're admonished to give, there are those in our midst who make serving an integral part of their life. In our first hour we'll talk with local Nashvillian Connally Penley about her involvement in Ten Thousand Villages, Magdalene and the Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association. Connally is a living example of our show's title and mission. Join us as we talk with her about the above organizations and her secrets to serving.

At the top of the second hour we talk with Ellie Morse, founder and president of the new Schools for Schools program in Dickson near Nashville, TN. (http://s4s.invisiblechildren.com/school/dickson-county-high-school ) Schools for schools is a unique program through Invisible Children, Inc that empowers the youth of America to raise funds for partner schools in Northern Uganda that have been affected by the 20 year war there. At present, Ellie's school is 7th out of 88 American High Schools in raising funds for Lacor Secondary School in Uganda. See the students, their shining faces, for whom she's raising money and more at the site above.

December 8, 2007

Ease into your Saturday morning with the comforting sounds created by Mr. Steve Sheehan, LCSW, aka Bongo Boy, Bongomeister, Prince of Percussion and by other references we won't reveal here at this point in time. He will be aided somewhat by his son-in-law, Tony Rosewood, I mean Cyprus Gerber....I mean Tony Gerber...yeah that's it... Real Life Tony Gerber for sure.

In the second hour Cecily Friday joins us and wow does she have some material to work with this week. Around 9:30 I will talk with Charles Sumner, President Emeritus of the Nashville chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. I will ask Charles, one of my personal role models, about Willard Romney's Speech yesterday. Did Mitt say what I think he did? Charles will shed some light on the speech plus perhaps educate us on where the constitution really stands on the separation of church and state issue.