Strength To Be Human --Global Arts & Affairs Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi

It takes responsibility to accept being human. 

Author and Artist -- Marilyn Johansen --- My Father's Secrets

1 Art as Mystical Muse

2. Mental HealthTherapy

3. Confessional Source Material

This episode deals with art and how it can reflect, represent or relay truth.

Interview with New Jersey poet & publisher, Toh  Bakelas.

Now that AI is upon them, humanity needs to weigh its deadly negative effects on freedom, art, and maybe life itself.

Another interview segment with editor, poet and writer Rosie Accola.

Wide ranging interview with California scientist, writer and musician, Elizabeth Mathiasen

A weighty, revelatory interview/discussion with Brooklyn-born writer, poet, playwright Bruno Rescigna.

topics include:

the artist

the state of mind

vision quest

what the world sees

We interview Canadian magazine publisher (Halcyon Days), editor, and writer Monique Berry,

Again we produced a show detailing the most recent dark uses of language to hurt, deceive or destroy people.

* suboptimal judgment

* birthing person

* chest feeding

* non birthing parent

* human milk

* white fragility

* family

A detailed interview with poet, composer and drama director Bruce Levine.

Is religious art -- sacred art?

Are artists who exclusively create religious work -- sacred artists?

Is sacred art really a version of propaganda?

This and many questions about the nature of art, humans and religious are posed for review.

Stimulating conversation with author and academic SG Ellerhoff.

Another episode to share email comments about past shows and answer questions about getting a literary agent.

So much is caught up in Memory -- both Identity and Truth are major factors that pivot on what we remember. I talk about using 30-year-old journals to piece together the past for a painful book.

A majority of unhappiness stems from not taking responsibility for one's actions or inaction.  We delve into impatience, insecurity, lack of faith, and the time we waste investing in people or places that cannot fulfill our lives.

Dr. Thomas Reed Willemain is a former academic, software entrepreneur, and intelligence officer. His flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Granfalloon (Canada), Hobart, and Burningword Literary Journal. He is the author of the memoir Working on the Dark Side of the Moon: Life Inside the National Security Agency.  Available on Amazon.