{"id":2654,"date":"2026-05-21T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:42:52","slug":"a-way-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2654","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Way with Words&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260422-680x_Lucerne-Harbor-western-sunset_DSC03244.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2473 alignright\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 40px 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260422-680x_Lucerne-Harbor-western-sunset_DSC03244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>My friend Linda Toren has a radio show on station KQBM out of West Point, California, called \u201cA Way With Words\u201d. Here\u2019s the way she introduced her show for Wednesday, May 13th:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Welcome to \u201cA Way with Words\u201d, a program dedicated to poetry, prose, literature, nonfiction, lyrics and the celebration of thoughts and language. I am your host, Linda Toren, from West Point California.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our studio sits on the grounds of the Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families, which sits on the unceded land of the Central Sierra Miwok people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I&#8217;m having a conversation, sharing a conversation today with my friend Mark Foote, who&#8217;s published a book called <a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/a-natural-mindfulness\/\">A Natural Mindfulness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to hear the conversation, she has the show posted on Internet Archive:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/program-148-final-13-may-26-mark-foote-zen\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/program-148-final-13-may-26-mark-foote-zen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our conversation is the first fifty minutes or so of the show, after which she has several short clips from various sources about Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Linda, for inviting me on the show and for being such a gracious host.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Linda Toren has a radio show on station KQBM out of West Point, California, called \u201cA Way With Words\u201d. Here\u2019s the way she introduced her show for Wednesday, May 13th: Welcome to \u201cA Way with Words\u201d, a program dedicated to poetry, prose, literature, nonfiction, lyrics and the celebration of thoughts and language. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;A Way with Words&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}