Best AlejAndro Anastasio Storytelling Podcasts (2025)

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A Desire To Own Less – OHS 353 39:33

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As I age, think about retirement, and consider what my life will look like after my mother passes, I have a deep and sincere desire to own less.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Retirement Contemplation – OHS 352 33:20

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It is that time... I am contemplating my path to retirement.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Citizenship By Descent – OHS 351 17:20

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I am working to getting Citizenship by Decent in Italy or Mexico. Both if possible.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Everything Comes To An End – OHS 350 17:08

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After almost 9 years of sharing and broadcasting the One Hands Speaks storytelling podcast, I will be bringing it to a close before 2025 comes to an end.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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I Have Been Teaching Buddhism in Prison – OHS 349 14:49

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For the past 15 months, I have been teaching Buddhism to inmates in a prison.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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My 2004 Video iPod – OHS 348 11:28

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I love my 2004 video iPod. I still have it and it works like a champ.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Olive Me Olive You – OHS 347 16:42

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My mother and I just got over the hump of the olive processing for 2025. And what a hump it was!By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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In The Wink of an Eye – OHS 346 13:45

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A short and sweet story about a flirty moment I shared with a young lady at Adobe Max 2018 in Los Angeles.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Dalai Lama 90th Birthday Celebration Missed – OHS 345 17:22

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This year I had the opportunity to attend the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday celebration in India. This is the story of how I missed it.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Oaxaca Mexico Travel with my Mother – OHS 344 18:05

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International travel with my 80 year old mother has interesting insight into traveling with my mother and someone who is 80 years of age.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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International Travel One Handed Flow – OHS 343 11:49

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A series of experiences as my mother and I took the 3 flights to get to Oaxaca, Mexico which had one handed overtones.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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King Floater Floating into Nepal 2025 – OHS 342 19:38

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Sharing some words about my easy, smooth, and relaxed travel to Kathmandu, Nepal this year.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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One Handedness In Nepal 2025 – OHS 341 39:04

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These are a series of short and humorous stories of my one-handed interactions while in Nepal this year.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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In The Heat of The Sun – OHS 340

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Today I had an experience that I enjoy regarding the sun and heat. Today was one of the first and truly beautiful days. I love the heat and I yearn for Winter to end and Spring to blossom. I love the heat. And this is just a short story of one of my favorite first-of-the-year, "I love the heat" experiences.…

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Nepal Year 5 – OHS 339 9:23

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I will be leaving soon for my fifth visit and pilgrimage to Nepal. This is what I have to say.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Bhutan and Tiger’s Nest Monastery – OHS 338

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Last year during my fourth visit and pilgrimage to Nepal, I took 5 days to pilgrimage in Bhutan. At that time I had been wanting to visit the Tiger's Nest Monastery for over eighteen years. In 2024 I was able to afford and plan in advance my short yet profound 5-day pilgrimage to Bhutan and Paro Taktsang. Also known as the Tiger's Nest Monastery --…

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Junko Left the Party – OHS 337 20:11

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One day while I was teaching Aikido at my dojo, 3 Shapes Aikido, in Boise's Historic North End community, a young Japanese lady walked through the door. Her name was Junko Ikuta. From the moment she arrived until the moment she departed, she left an indelible mark on our dojo, our dojo community, and on me. For the past 15 years I have thought abou…

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First Drum Circle at the Oregon Country Fair 1993 – OHS 336 19:38

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This story is about my first drum circle and first visit to the Oregon Country Fair in 1993.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Sweet Olive Flow 2024 – OHS 335 20:44

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Tales to be told of the "Sweet Olive Run" of 2024. This is a catch-up podcast about my most recent run at the olives for 2024. I am even discussing some of the Family Stuff that can arise with this work and the Sci-Fi overtone of the labels.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Like Caine in the Kung Fu – OHS 334 21:52

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In retirement (and if I could do it now) I would like to, "walk the earth like Caine the the Kung Fu. This is what Jules the hitman told Vincent the hitman in the movie "Pulp Fiction." I wish I had this statement on a t-shirt and I think about it often.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Decade of the Fifties – OHS 333 18:45

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In this podcast I am share my thoughts, feelings, observations, perspectives, and contemplations about being in the middle of my decade if my 50s.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Wood Dragon Year 2024 – OHS 332 17:49

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This story is simply about the changes and transformations I am feeing within myself this year, the year of the Wood Dragon 2024. This year I truly transformed in a number of ways and for a number of reasons. I can honestly say I could feel the power and energy generated by The Wood Dragon.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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Waking Up to Children Singing – OHS 331

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My co-worker in the cube next to me has small children. Lately, when they call him (with his wide's support) because they him him, I can hear them laugh and play and take deep thoughts using children's logic. It reminds me of a Dojo memory when I like at my dojo in Boise's North End. I have wanted to podcast about this experience and memory for qui…

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The Girl With No Fingers – OHS 330 25:25

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These are some of my memories of Lisa Bufano. At the time she and I were both living in Boise and doing a lot of performance art. She was doing much more and more disabled performance art. She had all her fingers and legs below the knees amputated due to a staff infection from a previous surgery. A mutual artist associated recently passed away and …

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Another One Handed Moment – OHS 329 8:31

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This is a story about another one handed moment with children.I just got home from Winco, a grocery store here in Boise, Idaho. After paying for the food, I was waiting by the restrooms for my mother. As a young boy was leaving the "boy's room" he noticed I do not have two hands. That starting a funny, beautiful, and special one-handed moment for a…

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The Wedding of Brad and Miranda – OHS 328 11:50

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One of the longer standing students in the Boise Dharma Center moved to Port Orchard, Washington a while back. When he proposed to his wife he asked me of bestow the wedding vows in (somewhat low-key) Buddhist wedding ceremony on a boat on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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The African Foreign Language of Bambara – OHS 327 10:15

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When I attended Indiana University I truly wanted to expand my experience of knowledge. I did not really want good grades. I sincerely wanted to learn and grow. Therefore, I took many odd, unique, obscure, and personally challenging classes. I was also required to take two years of a foreign language. I chose to study the African foreign language o…

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Steven Seagal as the Mojo Priest and His Band – OHS 326 9:38

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I have been practicing and studying the martial art of Aikido since 1997. I have been teaching Aikido since 2002. It is hard to do Aikido that long and that deeply without knowing the name of, watching the movies of, and knowing the Aikido history of Steven Seagal. I have never trained with Seagal Sensei. But I, and two of my Aikido students, did g…

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A Day at Swayambhunath (2023) – OHS 325 24:07

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On March15, 2023 I will left for my third visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. I am sharing this podcast in 2024 from my visit in 2023 as I stopped podcasting for a while shortly after I returned from Nepal last year. I recently returned from Nepal this past April 2024 and this is a recording from last year that fits my timing and pilgrimage this year.Thanks…

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A Great One Handed Day – OHS 324 12:22

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This is a story about another one handed moment with children.I just got home from Winco, a grocery store here in Boise, Idaho. After paying for the food, I was waiting by the restrooms for my mother. As a young boy was leaving the "boy's room" he noticed I do not have two hands. That starting a funny, beautiful, and special one-handed moment for a…

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8-Year Anniversary Podcast – OHS 323 10:03

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It is hard to believe it has been 8 years since I began podcasting. Especially with taking almost a year off and not posting a 7-Year Anniversary podcast last year. However, here I am not and catching up!!By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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The One Handed Thing in Nepal – OHS 322 18:15

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Funny stories about having one hand in Nepal.By AlejAndro Anastasio - Storytelling

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I Took a Long Break – OHS 321 21:45

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I took a long break. My last podcast posted on June 21, 2023. Pretty much 10 months.Life has a way of changing for us. Or should I say changing us. An old friend of mine once said, "It is funny how life gets in the way of life." But sometimes life unfolds in ways that redirect us. Many times in goods ways and in many ways there are bad times. Life …

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A Day in Halesi, Nepal – OHS 320 39:35

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This past late March and early April I returned to Nepal for my third Buddhist Pilgrimage. This year my main intention was to visit the small town of Halesi and the famous and sacred Maratika Cave. This is a very special place for Tibetan Buddhists. The journey there from Kathmandu is a minimum of three days by car both ways. But it is said to spen…

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Tin Can Theory – OHS 319 9:46

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I came up with an idea that is not new while interacting with my mother. She wanted to do something that I thought was not worth her time. I even offered her some money not to do it. But she refused. Later that day she told she should of took what I had offered. And it that moment, the "Tin Can Theory" was coined.Thanks for listening! I invite you …

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Monkeys of Nepal – OHS 318 13:21

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Over the past three visits to Nepal I have had a number of interesting interactions with monkeys. The first year I was pretty sure I was going to have to do battle with a gang of Monkeys at Swayambhunath Stupa. Last year I saw a monkey bully a young lady and take her fruit drink. I actually saw him decide he was going to take advantage of her and t…

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A Day at Boudhanath Stupa – OHS 317 25:15

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I decided to spend one full day at Boudhanath Stupa. Most of my time in Kathmandu and at my hotel (near Boudhanath Stupa) was usually in "home base" mode. Meaning I am generally spending a number of hours at Boudhanath but not all day. I typically leave to go to the Monkey temple, to shop in the Thamel District, or am off to visit one of the many B…

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A Day in Lumbini, Nepal – OHS 316 20:36

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This year I took the time to visit the birthplace of Buddha in Lumbini, Nepal. It is a short 35 minute plane flight and an important pilgrimage site. Though the trip was just an overnight visit, I had a very special time in Lumbini, Nepal.Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback.Show Notes: My…

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Six Year Podcasting Anniversary – OHS 315 8:02

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I have been doing a weekly podcast for the past six years. Today's podcast celebrates my 6 year anniversary with a thank you to all my listeners and supporters. Let listen to what the start of year 7 brings!Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a comment or leave some feedback.Show Notes: 6 years and 315 podcasts deep.Reso…

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Shower in a Bag – OHS 314 31:07

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There are times indeed when traveling to remote Buddhist locations in small villages that Western conveniences fail to exist. Or at least in the way we want them to. These are the simple things like coffee, a soft bed, heat, and a hot shower. This year I traveled to the small village of Halesi, Nepal to visit the caves of Maratika. I went five days…

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Squat and Poop – OHS 313 15:38

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A sitting toilet is not very common in the general public space of Nepal. And certainly not outside the city of Kathmandu. This means there is a lot of squatting and pooping in Nepal. Additionally, there is a cultural non-use of toilet paper. Also, public bathrooms tend to be pretty gritty overall and the desire to put one's bag or backpack on the …

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The Beggar’s Pass – OHS 312 20:56

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An interesting thing has started to unfold in Kathmandu, Nepal. I had a similar experience in Tibet. However, I am starting to use this "trick" more and more in Nepal. This most recent visit had this gestured interaction truly take hold for me. I call it the "Beggar's Pass." It is a one handed thing and worthy of a podcast.Thanks for listening! I i…

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Five Short Stories From Kathmandu – OHS 311 22:11

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This will be my third pilgrimage visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. Each time I go I have very unique one handed experiences based on the Nepali cultural perception of not having two hands. Most of the time it is not a big deal. But sometimes it kinda is a big deal. Either way it is good practice in not clinging to what other people think. And it makes for…

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King Floater 2023 – OHS 310 25:29

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In transition and floating from airport to airport with many layovers going from Boise, Idaho USA to Kathmandu, Nepal. Way back in the early 90s during my "Seattle Days" I earned the nickname of King Floater. I was sleeping on people's couches and working full time waiting to leaving Seattle for Boise. I cannot say I was homeless but I was certainl…

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Countdown Kathmandu – OHS 309 9:59

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On Wednesday, March 15th I will be leaving for my third visit to Kathmandu, Nepal. This is my countdown to Kathmandu. If you been following the podcast you know I am posting all my podcasts in advance. Therefore, I am not sure when you are listening to this or in what order. But this is my last podcast before I board my flights to Nepal.Thanks for …

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The Perfect Travel Backpack – OHS 308 27:28

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This is just about my hunt for what I call "the perfect travel bag." I am mostly referring to urban laptop/book bags or a travel backpack. I have bought quite a few over the years and have tried many brands, sizes, and configurations. Despite all of that, I am still looking for the perfect bag.Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcas…

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The Tax Whisperer – OHS 307 32:51

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I was recently speaking with a friend of mine and we got on the topic of doing taxes since we both run businesses. I mentioned to him in the past I did not do my taxes for 5 years. Then I told him how I eventually ended up working with H&R Block. My friend was laughing so hard as I was telling him about the moment I stopped running from my taxes. M…

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Why Is This Arm Not Like That Arm? – OHS 306 9:49

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I recently went to get validated and fingerprinted as the last part of the TSA Pre-Check process. While there I had a very short one-handed conversation with a mother and her two daughters. The older one asked me why I am the way I am in a way I have never heard. This is that story.Thanks for listening! I invite you to share this podcast, offer a c…

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The Coffee Dragon – OHS 305 15:41

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This is a story about a moment I had traveling with my mother. She wants to do a bit of international travel before she gets too old. So I took her to Hawaii as it was one of her dream vacation destinations. Traveling with my mother is a whole different experience. I can truly say I learn a lot about myself and her. This is one of those lessons I l…

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I Will Send You The Body – OHS 304 15:47

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As an authorized Dharma Teacher and long-time leader of the Boise Dharma Center, I have been called upon for some of life's bigger moments. I have bestowed wedding vows and married couples. I have been asked to speak and eulogize at people wakes and funerals. My name is on a list at my local hospital if someone wants to speak with a Buddhist. Of al…