Doug is a musician, videographer, father, and coconut outlaw. Enjoy this wonderful moment in time my loved ones.

I discuss polyamory with presenters and visitors to the Healthy Relationships and Reproductive Rights Teach In. I am using my school assignment as a podcast!

This is a really special encounter that starts a bit quiet in Doug’s audio, but as the conversation warms up, and she cools down from the dance the audio issues are resolved (2:30). Anyways, I really can’t add anything to this amazing moment. Doug is a professional woman working in the fields of health and wellness, yoga instruction, she does the marketing for retreat centers - and get this, she has a podcast about exploring the topics of health and happiness. Doug glows in a way few people ever do, well before the end of the podcast. Enjoy.

Doug is a survivor of the sixties, a real dude with history. A retired drug counselor, an animal lover, and a doting husband. Enjoy.

I speak with Doug, a mother and a daughter about loss, love, learning how to love more, and the dog that taught her how, Ray. “Nobody wants a dog with chronic explosive diarrhea… and the dog wound up being the love of my life.”

Scoobiah is an intentional community organizer, an author, and an interesting guy. Topics covered in our conversation: His recently released, The Book of Scoobiah. His Hug experiments, and meeting with gurus and swamis. Miraculous healing from a broken neck. Laughing, the ridiculous, and possibility. The Scoobiah Sanctuary of the Big Island. His role in intentional communities. Forgiveness and becoming the healer. The spiritual uses of Chat GPT. Learning to fly. Prayer, casting spells, and the Ascended Masters. His future book plans. “It takes 17 more muscles in your face to frown than it does to smile.”

A spontaneous conversation that touches on: Prison. Escapism and relaxation, and healing. The ever present blessing. The value of the drum circle and logic. Laughter and the spiritual laugh. Rich Hall’s BBC 4 documentary about California. Class and working for food stamp benefits. East coast v. west coast. “…there is no more annoying thing than a man with Alzheimer’s continually repeating, “you’re going to hell.’” - Doug.

Doug is a young man with experiences extreme enough to outweigh many people twice his age. This conversation truly honored me. Topics covered included loss of his father and sister very young in life. The ostracizing of his small family unit. Absorbing his twin in utero. His teachers and his medicine. “Sometimes we must stop in our pursuit of happiness and simply be happy.”

Thank you mom for the new intro. This conversation with Doug touches upon questions of how he learned to be a person when his parents weren’t there for him. His time with Baptist Christianity, and leaving it. Finding beauty in becoming. Learning to trust his gut. Travel plans. Plus, a question for me. Thank you for listening.

Topics covered: Figuring out who you after losing the job you identify by. His identical twin grandfather who had 11 children just like his brother. Accepting physical restrictions while relatively young. A few questions for me; fatherhood, and the theme of this pod.