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CTP (S3E152) Your Life Has Seasons And Context Changes Everything
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We share a quick lead-in on why this audio release comes from a prior video exclusive, then we get honest about how messy and normal it is to live with shifting moods. We tie that “complex beings” reality to seasons, context, grief and regret, and a run of original songs about time, loneliness, and hanging on when life feels heavy.
• why some references may be dated due to the release format
• “complex beings” as a framework for mood shifts and inner contradictions
• seasons of life and why context changes meaning
• writing through loss, grief, guilt, and regret
• short, medium, and long goals that can conflict over time
• songs that explore burnout, moral action, loneliness, friendship, and resilience
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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We share a quick lead-in on why this audio release comes from a prior video exclusive, then we get honest about how messy and normal it is to live with shifting moods. We tie that “complex beings” reality to seasons, context, grief and regret, and a run of original songs about time, loneliness, and hanging on when life feels heavy.
• why some references may be dated due to the release format
• “complex beings” as a framework for mood shifts and inner contradictions
• seasons of life and why context changes meaning
• writing through loss, grief, guilt, and regret
• short, medium, and long goals that can conflict over time
• songs that explore burnout, moral action, loneliness, friendship, and resilience
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:27Hello, gang.
00:28How are you doing?
00:30This is a cheat segment.
00:34I am recording this as a lead-in to a standard Saturday show that is going to now air through
00:49the audio platforms, 25 plus, of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:55What was formerly a CTP video exclusive that I feel needs to go out as a regular show.
01:06So, bear that in mind, when recorded, it was a video exclusive.
01:13So, the dates, it could be from a month ago.
01:20It could be from a couple months ago.
01:22So, bear that in mind when you hear things regarding time frames.
01:28It may be from a while ago.
01:32So, particular references may be a little dated.
01:38And this segment of cheat, right?
01:41I'm recording it.
01:43I'll be using it with several video exclusives turned Saturday episodes.
01:50Without further ado, let's get on with the show!
01:56I just had a long conversation.
01:59Well, it wasn't really a conversation.
02:01It was a text exchange.
02:04And actually, it's 10, 15 a.m. Saturday, April the 18th.
02:11Also, I did have a conversation with Phil and Bruce on Air Wham Radio out of Ann Arbor here.
02:21The Abolitionist Roundtable, 9 to 10 a.m.
02:25WhamRadio.com if you want to look it up.
02:29Anyway.
02:31And yesterday, I was recording with Mitzi and the Let's Talk About It show.
02:38Recently, I dropped on video channels.
02:43I was on months ago with Gandhi, the Gandhi Slaves Program,
02:50talking human nature and human condition.
02:53So, we are complex beings.
02:57And yes, at the end of this, I will tack on the song that I created by that title, Complex
03:04Beings.
03:06Because I coined, and this came up on the text, non-medical schizophrenia.
03:16And I stand by that.
03:19We have sub-personalities that make our whole content of character.
03:25One day we could be up.
03:28Another day we could be down.
03:30Those aren't two different people.
03:32Those aren't demonic infestations, medical schizophrenia.
03:39Those are part of the non-medical schizophrenia, as I coined it.
03:45Part of the content of our characters.
03:50We have moods.
03:52It's part of human moods.
03:54Like the weather, rainy today again, unfortunately, kind of chilly again.
04:00We have seasons.
04:02Bible, for all things, there is a season.
04:06Turn, turn, turn.
04:07The song.
04:09Yes.
04:10It's biblical.
04:14And no, Jesus never contradicted himself.
04:17It's humans that screw up the context.
04:22Isaiah, turn your sword into a plowshare.
04:26And elsewhere, Jesus telling them, sell your garment to buy a sword.
04:32Those aren't contradictory if and when you understand context.
04:41And depending on the season one applies versus the other applies in another season.
04:50So we have moods, right, ups and downs.
04:56My current book I'm working on, dropping in May, deals in, like the Inception movie, which not coincidentally, I talked
05:06about the other day, I came to the show, deals in loss, grief, guilt, regret.
05:14As the underlying human condition, emotions, there's a whole lot of other complicated imaginative story on top of the Inception
05:24film.
05:25A lot of the facts and whatnot.
05:27My book doesn't go into blowing things up and things of that nature.
05:32But does indeed also deal with loss.
05:36Part of life and living.
05:38Wide part of my life and living series.
05:41It'll be the fifth in the tinyurl.com slash life and living series of books.
05:49Loss, grief, regret, guilt.
05:53Some days we might be regretful and feel guilty.
05:57Other days we feel great about our lives and the way things are going.
06:03And a relationship may be working.
06:08Moods, seasons, things shift.
06:12Like I go into a bit behind the scenes sneak peek.
06:17There are short-term, medium, and long-term things we have to kind of think about and quasi, at least,
06:27loosely plan for.
06:29But short, medium, and long-term goals and aspirations and desires can change and shift.
06:39They can contradict from time to time even.
06:42The desires of the now might conflict with what we want for the later.
06:50Complex beings.
06:52Non-medical schizophrenia.
06:55Anyway, all right.
06:57I'm going to end it here.
06:58That's all I really wanted to say.
07:01I felt it important to say.
07:04The Mitzi Let's Talk About a Show, unfortunately, doesn't sound like it's going to actually release until February of 2027.
07:16It happened.
07:17The Gandy Show, Gandy Slays, came out months ago, but I didn't think to mention my non-medical schizophrenia during
07:28that discussion.
07:29But, yes, you can find it at my video channels.
07:32Gandy was kind enough to give me permission to replay it across my platforms.
07:37Anyway, thank you all.
07:40Take care.
07:41God bless.
07:42Love you all.
07:43Yes.
07:44Next, Complex Beings.
07:47My song.
07:58Complex Beings.
07:59Yeah, we bend.
08:01We break.
08:02We mend.
08:03We got moods.
08:04We got ranges.
08:06Quick flips.
08:07Strange rearrangements.
08:09Season shifting in our skin.
08:12Quiet storms behind a grin.
08:14One word.
08:15Whole day changes.
08:16Heart rewrites its own page.
08:18We're just complex beings.
08:21That's what we are.
08:22Puzzle piece.
08:23Hearts.
08:23Little bites.
08:23Our scars.
08:24We got ups.
08:25We got down.
08:25Still, we stick around on a dime.
08:27We can turn and turn it all around.
08:30Complex Beings.
08:31Tangled and true.
08:32Half of me running.
08:33Half running to you.
08:34Complicated.
08:35Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
08:39But I love you through the chapters and the seasons.
08:46You're a sunrise.
08:47You're a shutdown.
08:49You're a soft laugh in a letdown.
08:52You go quiet and you're singing.
08:54Every mood, every shade still clinging.
08:57I'm a question in your doorway.
09:00You're an answer set the long way.
09:02Both hands full of tiny treason.
09:04Still, we stay.
09:05Still, we stay through the reasons.
09:07We're just complex beings.
09:09That's what we are.
09:10Puzzle piece.
09:11Hearts.
09:12Little bites.
09:12Size scars.
09:13We got ups.
09:13We got downs.
09:14Till we stick around on a dime.
09:16We can turn it.
09:17Turn it all around.
09:18Complex Beings.
09:19Tangled and true.
09:21Half of me running.
09:22Half running to you.
09:23Complicated.
09:24Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
09:27But I love you through the chapters and the seasons.
09:35Complex Beings.
09:37We have moods.
09:38We have ranges.
09:40Seasons and changes.
09:44We have ups and downs.
09:47On a dime can turn it around.
09:49Complicated.
09:50The book spells out.
09:53Some of the reasons.
09:59Complex Beings.
10:00We got moods.
10:01We got ranges.
10:03Little storms in our teacups.
10:05Whole climates.
10:07Seasons and changes.
10:09We go quiet.
10:10We go wild.
10:11We go tender.
10:11Then tough.
10:12One word.
10:13One look.
10:13One moment.
10:14Can be way too much.
10:18We're just complex.
10:20B.S.
10:21Breathing.
10:22Trying to make some meaning.
10:25From all these turns and twists inside.
10:26We fall apart.
10:28Then realign.
10:29We're just complex.
10:30B.S.
10:31Reaching.
10:32Hearts cracking.
10:33Open.
10:34Healing.
10:35We got ups and downs.
10:36On a dime.
10:37Can turn it around.
10:38Oh, some days I'm the hero.
10:41Some days I'm the doubt.
10:43I'm the riddle and the rumor and I'm still working it out.
10:46Complicated like the book spells out some of the reasons.
10:50Every chapter.
10:52Every scar.
10:53Every quiet little treason.
10:56So if I change in the middle of a sentence.
10:59If I laugh when I'm breaking down.
11:02That's just all my different versions showing up at once right now.
11:06We're just complex.
11:08B.S.
11:10Breathing.
11:11Trying to make some meaning.
11:16From all these turns and twists inside.
11:21We fall apart.
11:24Then realign.
11:27We're just complex.
11:28B.S.
11:29Reaching.
11:30Hearts cracking.
11:31Open.
11:31Healing.
11:32Healing.
11:33We got ups and downs.
11:34On a dime.
11:35Can turn it around.
11:37On a dime.
11:38Can turn it around.
11:40Oh.
11:51Mmm
11:59Mmm
12:00Mmm
12:04Only thing necessary
12:08For evil prevail, what they say
12:13Good peoples do nothing, doing nothing
12:17They stayed with most today
12:23The world keeps turning
12:26A dark, strange place
12:30Good folks are yearning for a saving grace
12:38The ship has sailed, they say
12:41On a troubled tide
12:45But what do you do today
12:49With nowhere to hide
12:54Questions I've been asking in all my writings
12:58Watch your move
13:01Just what about is it
13:04You're willing to try to do
13:09Evil prevails
13:13When good just leaves
13:16Light sometimes fails
13:20While the darkness creeps
13:23What are you doing now?
13:26Tell me, tell me
13:27How will you take a bow
13:30For all to see
13:39The news, it screams a broken sound
13:43Lost in bad dreams on hallowed ground
13:46They say it's all lost cause a losing fight
13:50But what about your applause for what is right?
13:54Only thing it takes for shadow to prevail
13:57Is a crowd of quiet hearts
13:59Scroll inside
14:00Then turn away
14:02Say
14:03This world is torn apart
14:09Ship's gone out past the rusted pier
14:13We just watch it fade
14:15On this falling ground
14:18On this falling ground
14:18We're standing
14:20Still afraid to wait
14:23So what are you doing?
14:27What are you doing now?
14:31To help the light
14:33Help the light
14:34Help the light
14:36Break through the doubt
14:38Are you just waiting
14:41For someone else to move?
14:46Or will you stand, will you stand, will you stand
14:49And be the proof?
14:53Tell me
14:54Tell me
14:54What are you doing?
15:01What are you doing?
15:10Good folks in a quiet room
15:12Hands clean
15:13Eyes closed
15:14Say someday I'll make a change
15:16Someday never shows
15:18Every hurt you walk right past
15:20Cuts a deeper line
15:21Every that's not up to me
15:23Helps the dark align
15:25So what are you doing?
15:28What are you doing now?
15:33To help the light
15:35Help the light
15:36Help the light
15:37Break through the doubt
15:40Are you just waiting
15:42For someone else to move?
15:47Or will you stand, will you stand, will you stand
15:51And be the proof?
15:55Tell me what are you doing?
15:59What are you doing?
16:03What are you doing?
16:11It's a hard, hard question
16:14Looking back at you
16:15Yeah, in the mirror
16:17In the silence
16:18You already know what's true
16:19If you're breathing
16:20You're required to answer
16:22With your life
16:23Every minute that you're giving
16:26Takes a sigh
16:45Heck, take a living
16:48We went from brother
16:50Can you spare a dime?
16:51Nowadays, brother
16:54Can you spare some time?
16:56Fast-paced, hectic days
16:59Need return to simpler ways
17:02Get it quick
17:03Need slow it down
17:05We're lost and need
17:06Be refound
17:08Can we turn it around?
17:14We went from bread lines
17:16To deadline
17:17From brother
17:18Can you spare a dime?
17:20To brother
17:21Can you spare some time?
17:26Get it quick
17:28Get it quick
17:29Need to slow it down
17:31All this gold
17:34Can't buy solid ground
17:37Fast-paced, hard
17:40Skipping every sign
17:43We're losing ground
17:46Brother
17:47Brother
17:47Can you spare some time?
17:51Can you spare some time?
17:55Screen glow, midnight
17:57Eyes still wired
18:02Chasing every fire
18:04Chasing every little fire
18:05Chasing every little fire
18:06But the hot chocolate's gone cold
18:09The kids outgrown
18:11And we missed it
18:13Scrolling on our phones
18:18Get it quick
18:20Need to slow it down
18:23All this gold
18:26All this gold
18:26Can't buy solid ground
18:29Fast-paced, hard
18:32Skipping every sign
18:34We're losing ground
18:38Brother
18:39Brother
18:40Can you spare some time?
18:43Maybe trade this rush for a walk
18:46Round the block
18:47Talk like we used to talk
18:51Hey, counting blessings
18:57It's not the overtime
18:59Just your hand and mine
19:03Get it quick
19:07Need to slow it down
19:09All this gold
19:13Can't buy solid ground
19:16Fast-paced, hard
19:18Skipping every sign
19:21We're losing ground
19:23Brother
19:26Can you spare some time?
19:51I got no friends
19:54None even on the line
19:58Not even any exist
20:02In my head
20:05Not like I don't try
20:09But I can't seem to find
20:13Every door stays shut
20:16Every name fades out
20:21Leaves me in a state of dread
20:24Walking around with a heavy head
20:27I keep reaching out
20:30But the room stays bare
20:36Schizophrenic
20:37I'm not like that
20:38I'm all quiet in my head
20:42Schizophrenic
20:44No storm, no crack
20:46Just silence upstairs instead
20:49I keep it all in
20:52I keep it all in
20:57I'm not schizophrenic
20:59Exactly the opposite
21:03No voices in the hall
21:05No monsters on the wall
21:10Just me and the clock
21:12Just me and the clock
21:12And the same old ache
21:14Trying to act okay
21:16When my chest feels fake
21:19Leaves me in a state of dread
21:21Walking around with a heavy head
21:25I keep reaching out
21:27I keep reaching out
21:28But the room stays bare
21:31Schizophrenic
21:32I'm not like that
21:34I'm all quiet in my head
21:37Schizophrenic
21:39No storm, no crack
21:41Just silence upstairs instead
21:44I keep it all in
21:47I keep it all in
22:06If you see me slip
22:08Don't call me cold
22:10I'm just running on a borrowed hold
22:13Give me one small sign
22:15One real reply
22:17I don't need a crowd
22:18Just one that's mine
22:24Schizophrenic
22:25I'm not like that
22:26I'm all quiet in my head
22:31Schizophrenic
22:32Not even online
22:33Also there I lack
22:34Just silence upstairs instead
22:37I keep it all in
22:40I keep it all in
22:43Hello
22:46It's a beautiful day
22:48To say you're a friend
22:51Won't you be my
22:53Friend
22:55Neighbor
23:19Life has its ups and downs
23:22Like a tilted world can spin us around
23:26Life like an amusement park
23:28Life like an amusement park
23:29But not always too amusing
23:33Ups, downs, happy and sad
23:36Cycles and seasons
23:39Sometimes lost
23:41Others feel we're found
23:44Down, downs, downs, in the ground
23:47Wait, it can turn around
23:51Hold on
23:55Don't let go now
24:00It can turn around
24:03It can turn around
24:06Ups to the sky
24:10Downs in the ground
24:12Oh-oh-oh-oh
24:14It can turn around
24:15Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
24:17It can turn around
24:19Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
24:20If you feel lost
24:22You can be found
24:27Morning comes in pieces
24:29Then the day leans hard
24:33One foot in the dust
24:36One hand on the bars
24:39Some days break you open
24:42Some days let you breathe
24:46Still the wheel keeps moving
24:49Still you have to leave
24:54Wait
24:56It can turn around
24:59Hold on
25:03Don't let go now
25:07It can turn around
25:09It can turn around
25:10Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
25:11It can turn around
25:13Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
25:14Ups to the sky
25:17Downs in the ground
25:19Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
25:21It can turn around
25:23Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
25:25It can turn around
25:26Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
25:28If you feel lost
25:29You can't be found
25:35Season after season we learn to ride
25:42Every fall can teach us how to climb
25:46So when the wall gets heavy, hear me now
25:54What spins you down today can't turn around
26:04It can turn around
26:06It can turn around
26:09Up to the sky, downs in the ground
26:16It can turn around
26:19It can turn around
26:23You feel lost
26:26You can be found
26:29It can turn around
26:39Rollercoasters
26:41Life has its ups and downs
26:45Like a tilted world can spin us around
26:48Life, life
26:49Like an amusement park
26:51But not always
26:53Too amusing
26:58Up's downs, happy and sad
27:00Cycles and season
27:04Sometimes lost
27:06Others feel we're found
27:09Wait
27:10It can turn around
27:19Could be better, could be worse
27:24Life, philosophy, quoted chapter and verse
27:28Life and living series
27:33Here today, tomorrow different query
27:49Sunrise, creeping through the blinds
27:52Another day, another grind
27:54Coffee steaming, got my thoughts
27:56Tangled up in tangle knots
27:59Spinning round and round
28:05No solid ground
28:09Could be better, could be worse
28:12That's my motto, that's my verse
28:14Could be better, could be worse
28:17Life's a wild and crazy curse
28:19Could be better, could be worse
28:22Just gotta roll with it, disperse
28:28Yeah, yeah
28:30Boss man calling on the phone
28:32Wants a report all alone
28:35Traffic jamming on the street
28:37Sweaty palms and aching feet
28:40Head up in the clouds
28:46Loss
28:46Lost in the crowd��
28:49in the crowd Could
28:50be better, could be worse That's
28:53my motto, that's my verse Could be
28:56better, could be worse Life's
28:58a wild and crazy curse Could be
29:01better, could be worse Just gotta
29:03roll with it, disperse Woo,
29:07woo, woo, woo
29:10I'm on it in a busted bus seat
29:13Same rain on the same old street
29:15Bills in the bag, hole in my shoe
29:18Still got a pole, still got you
29:20Could be better, could be worse
29:25I read that line like a prayer, like a curse
29:31Could be better, could be worse
29:33Chapter and verse, chapter and verse
29:36Could be better, could be worse
29:38That's the way it works, yeah
29:41If I'm bent, I'm still here
29:44If I'm bruised, I'm still still
29:46Could be better, could be worse
29:48Chapter and verse, chapter and verse
29:51Mama said, son, don't count the scars
29:54Count the hands that carried you this far
29:56One bad turn, one lucky break
29:59One deep breath, one more day awake
30:01Could be better, could be worse
30:05I keep that line in my coat, in my purse
30:11Could be better, could be worse
30:14Chapter and verse, chapter and verse
30:17Could be better, could be worse
30:19That's the way it works
30:22If I'm bent, I'm still here
30:24If I'm bruised, I still steer
30:27Could be better, could be worse
30:29Chapter and verse
30:31Uh, I've seen the door stay shut
30:34I've seen it swing wide
30:37Same hand on the handle
30:39Same fear inside
30:42So I laugh at the lead
30:44I don't bow to the bend
30:47I'm not at the end
30:49Oh, I'm just here again
30:52Could be better, could be worse
30:55Chapter and verse
30:56Chapter and verse
30:58Could be better, could be worse
31:00That's the way it works
31:02If I'm bent, I'm still here
31:05If I'm bruised, I still steer
31:08Could be better, could be worse
31:10Chapter and verse
31:12Could be better
31:14Could be worse
31:17Could be better, could be worse
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