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Entertaining The Thought

swellcast.com/DBPardes

As a VP of Swell Audio for six years, I had the incredible opportunity to interview people from many different industries. What they all had in common was the desire to push into the unknown and find compelling reasons to push even further. It’s that constant hunger for discovery – even SELF discovery - that intrigues me. As I continue to entertain thoughts on a daily basis, please stay in touch stay in touch by visiting http://www.deborahpardes.com/ Visit https://swellcast.com/DBPardes to add

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4:52

Yom Hashoah Holocaust Memorial Day

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/04/24

Link to museum : https://s.swell.life/O1UjIYyZrv2beC5 Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So when I think about using the word Jews, I think about myself as a member of a people who were systematically murdered during a time when the world watched and did nothing until it was too late. But the link that I'm sharing to the Holocaust Museum of the US Has a database and I just type in the word pardes and 240 names come up with the last name of Pardes. That's my father's father's name. And I do it to

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1:03

9100 books moved by 300 People ❤️❤️

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/04/17

Link : https://s.swell.life/O1UieXl4hcR8wvd Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So there's a small town in Michigan, and it's in the news because this bookstore wanted to move 9,100 books from one bookstore to the new bookstore. And 300 people created what they're calling a book brigade, where they wrapped around from the old store to the new store. They moved 9,100 books into the new shelves, the correct shelves, where they're going to be in the new store. This would have taken a moving company a

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4:15

Ode to Redwoods - tree bathing Spring 2025

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/04/16

Link to Mendocino County: https://s.swell.life/O1UiUTTL5mfN72h Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's called Trees by Joyce Kilmer. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed upon the earth's sweet flowering breast. A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray. A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, but only God

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4:29

Swell + Authors and Publishers Convene in LA to talk...

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/03/31

AWP : link https://s.swell.life/O1Uh3SJAQ6kuQup Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It was really interesting to sort of walk the aisles, also be tabling to connect to people about the power of book clubs online and also the ability for organizations to use conversation to really connect and engage a large group of people, a membership group. And we're really excited about the flow we had between publishers and agents who were looking to position their authors and authors themselves who are looking

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3:06

Generators of empathy : jewish writers convene at AWP

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/03/28

https://yetzirahpoets.org/ Click here to reply to @DBPardes "People read our poems, our stories, our novels, our memoirs, and feel connected to characters, to people unlike themselves, outside of their experience, outside of their lives. And so I think leading with empathy is a great way to lean into those challenging conversations. Yeah. One of the goals of this very small conversation is that it continues and that more people add their voices and talk about their experience in the circle we just

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3:26

Entertaining The Thought - How long can you stay open...

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/03/18

Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And when you think, sometimes without the fear of being wrong, the things that come out of your mouth are extraordinary. So I wanted to posit this idea of entertaining the thought of things that you know might instinctively not be something you agree with or understand, but you're entertaining it. And the buoyancy of the word entertaining has a lot more play for me than other framing. So that's kind of my approach to especially."

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4:34

Do we live in a culture of sharing?

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/03/12

I’m musing on the possibilities of sharing as an exponential additive Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And it's just crazy because it's six families and lots of kids, and it's always back and forth. And it's not like a culture of sort of borrowing. It's more of a culture of sharing. And that distinction is pretty powerful. I had a conversation with a guy on another swellcast here called Altadena, which is about the people of Altadena and how they're dealing with the fires. And this gentleman is a

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16:51

@DBPardes | For the best reasons : No one can speak...

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/27

Link to class : https://s.swell.life/O1Ue26bbvJZEOxO Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And that's, I think, why safe relationships build our confidence. When you sort of have a buddy system with someone and you say, you know what, I'm going to try to talk more. I'm going to try to express myself more. It could be a partner, it could be a sibling, it could be a parent, it could be a child, it could be anybody who you see frequently enough to say, you know what? Get me out of my head."

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4:21

For the best reasons : No one can speak for you but you

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/27

Link to class : https://s.swell.life/O1Ue26bbvJZEOxO Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And that's, I think, why safe relationships build our confidence. When you sort of have a buddy system with someone and you say, you know what, I'm going to try to talk more. I'm going to try to express myself more. It could be a partner, it could be a sibling, it could be a parent, it could be a child, it could be anybody who you see frequently enough to say, you know what? Get me out of my head."

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7:31

Honoring a moment of sorrow

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/21

He spoke truth and I share it | https://s.swell.life/O1UdSDyY84g8P7Z Click here to reply to @DBPardes "But I just want to mourn the confusion, mourn the hatred, mourn the death and hope we can really rise up in this moment and link arms and fight for what's right."

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2:58

**My New Children’s Book** Outer Space Balloon

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/19

Link : https://s.swell.life/O1UdHkfYN2oNZFh Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And a lot of times parents get stuck in the news and stuck in the day to day. And to be able to give a kid a book like this, I hope will be sort of a passport to an adventure and also to maybe the next chapter in their lives where they're going to kind of make outer space balloons in their living rooms or in their bedrooms and get creative and imagine themselves flying out into space and to discovering all sorts of

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5:45

SFWC -how to plan a podcast

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/09

#SFWC OK #Podcasting Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So, yeah, I do a lot of interviews. I also do solo podcast episodes. And what I will say is that having a mixture of the two can make it sustainable. But here's why interviews can be so helpful. You have probably heard over the course of your time here that being a good literary citizen is important. When you are interviewing someone else, you are lifting up their voice. And, you know, that can actually be a form of politics in a way."

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0:54

San Francisco writers conference – the presenters!

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/08

#Authors #Publishers #Writers #SFWritersConference Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So the San Francisco Writers Conference is happening right now and I'm here and I'm at an event where we're going to meet a lot of people who are presenting at this conference. The conference is focusing on writers and publishers and distributors and bookstores, all the people that love the idea of continuing this beautiful literary community. And it's a challenge. You need to have a lot of tenacity to be a writer

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1:34

My conversation with Ruby Cooper!

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/07

#SFWritersConference #theMoth Click here to reply to @DBPardes "Well, stories that I've turned into children's stories during COVID That's it. Well, I am so excited about you being here. I'm going to follow you, and I'm going to email this to you. Actually, I'm going to text this to you so you can reply to me when you're laying down in your hostel tonight. And I hope to hear your voice. This is so exciting for us to be a part of your world. Thank you so much."

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3:46

THE POWER OF YOUR NAME ( and correcting those who...

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/02/05

#Pride #Identity link: https://youtu.be/Gq6F3uMAKKY @mommyconfession Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And then it might be other things that are way more complicated, like your sexuality or your gender or the goals you have or who you want to be and do you want to have kids and do you want to get married? Step into the space for first with knowing your name and where it comes from and who you are and the roots it gives you, I'm really, really moved by the conversations I've been listening to from

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5:07

Crush Boredom #LonelinessKills

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/01/28

#Loneliness #Community Link: https://s.swell.life/O1UbD6tt7doaBke Click here to reply to @DBPardes "So it could be just a simple putting together of some APIs from other platforms and then making this Frankenstein fabulous interface that enables people to crush their boredom and boredom and be less lonely and really develop incredible communities. I do have a mission statement that I'm going to read to you right now if it's of interest to anybody. So I'm going to pull that up and then just put a

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4:59

A Reverend asks for Mercy; A President Sneers

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/01/22

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde pleas for humility #Inauguration #Faith #MLK link to speech: https://youtu.be/31ylIPemGlE Click here to reply to @DBPardes "I'm going to show a link to both her entire speech and also a snapshot of what he said in response to her speech. I know this community on Swell is so full of reflection and faith. I've been here for five years, and I am so proud to be a member of this community. And I wanted to just share my sadness with everybody here because I wish that her words

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1:15

Praying for a cease fire and the fires to cease

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/01/16

#Hope #War #Fires #LosAngeles #MiddleEast Click here to reply to @DBPardes "And then I hope we can quell all this heat metaphorically and literally, and that the fires will just smolder and new life can grow. And that's my wish, that's my hope, and I wanted to share it with everybody here today. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this or just your prayers. Thanks."

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4:26

Is your expertise relevant in times of natural...

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/01/15

#Expertise #Volunteerism #Community Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's more like if you have been in a natural disaster and had to show up, what parts of you were able to be helpful? What surprised you about your behavior if something were to happen now, do you think watching the disasters that have happened so far with the hurricanes in this country, the tornadoes, the fires, are you starting to build a profile of yourself that you think might match those environments when they happen?"

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4:16

#LAFire | One Story - Sochi & Levi

Entertaining The Thought ·

2025/01/12

#LAfire #Survivors #Volunteers #Hope Click here to reply to @DBPardes "It's very heartwarming to know that everyone was able to just get up the next day and lend a hand to us, be able to help us carry on through our lives. Because we still have work, we still have children, we still have a life that needs to proceed even though the devastation is still ongoing. And it just doesn't stop life. So it's really tough. But it's really great to know so many helping hands that we have here in our own

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