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Riffin' out on the street at the bus stop. Some people are just in the flow, you know? When you're lucky enough to run into one of them, play along....
(With some Life courtesy of Sly Stone)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SignalmanWe had the pleasure to sit with this gentleman, Mr. Roberts, on a flight last spring. He is a WWII veteran who had been visiting old friends and, like us, was flying home.
[Musical interlude by Yes]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PracticeTaken from a recorded call with Gene Gollogly, this conversation is about the kind of practice that can help cultivate a connection with the Earth and with the part we play here. As you will hear, Gene has a warm and inviting way about him. He is president and CEO of SteinerBooks, which offers an enormous number of titles covering spirituality, education, arts, nature, health, psychology, and practically everything else. (www.steinerbooks.org) What a job!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Not In My Back Yard!In which our lovable heroes un-wholesomely wish for a global military crisis, in order to restore a bit of quiet to their personal airspace.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No More Mr. and Ms. Nice Persons!!Destined to be this summer's first blockbuster hit, it's the hair-rinsing, spine-chingling sequel to last year's Toilet Repair Trilogy! Introducing rising star Aaron McGurk as the young youth who learns the hard way that it's not all glamour at the handle end of a toilet plunger, and that snake handling is no business for nice guys....
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One or two?This conversation with Japa Buckner continues my wrestling match with the concept of monism--the idea that all of reality is of the same nature, rather than split up into the dual realms of matter and mind. It's easy enough to say, but it's practically wired into us to think of a "Creator" who watches over its "creation," and then I'm off track.
The person we're discussing at the beginning is Rudolf Steiner, and the book is The Philosophy of Freedom. There ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sounds of mildlifeIn search of auditory adventure, we stalked the exotic fauna of Lakeland, FL and captured many specimens. From the sweet trill of songbirds to the uncouth eruptions of swans, with a dog, some tractors, and another very unusual species thrown in.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A clearing in the forestTalking to myself again.
This time it's about an interesting 'aha!' experience I had while reading Philosophy of Freedom. It has a lot to do with the belief--or fact, I think--that acts of genuine love and sympathy are worth far more than acts of compulsion or earnest political activism.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VROOOMvroomverververvrvervrooomWe're not too adept at dealing with ice 'round these parts. Thanks to all this skidding, spinning & spewing, our backyard now has a good start on that pond I always wanted, or at least a mud pit for wrestling in.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Techno Butterfly Banjo JamFrom a recent First Friday Open House--bridging the generations with an anime YouTube video of "Butterfly" and our friend Kyle accompanying on the banjo. Nothing strange about that, at least not around our house!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stir (Fry) CrazyHere's some kitchen madness involving Kathy, Fred, Ma and Pa, and assorted vegetables. We didn't quite manage to set off the smoke alarm, but several other kinds of mayhem can be heard. We hope you don't get too disorientaled and wok out on us.
And let us know your thoughts on the topic, "Kissin' don't last, good cookin' do!"
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Another ExplanationHere's a fellow at work who is middle-aged, personable, and to all appearances unexceptional--oh, except that he has a comprehensive new mythology of our world and maybe several others in his head. It gets put on paper, sentence by sentence, day by day, at break times. You never really know what's inside people, do you?
(Music from the Moody Blues)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cuckoo for Each Other (awww...)Bjoern's Clock Repair in Bardstown, KY is a neat shop, and Bjoern is a neat guy. Here's the clock-talk part of our conversation (we also talked about Indians in Kentucky and historic reenactments, but those are for another time).
Word to the wise: Don't try to get your cuckoo clock repaired in Louisville. There just ain't a good place to get it done.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terrible BabysittersTwo tall tales tenderly told within the family, showing why it's probably just as well Fred isn't bringing up children of his own....
(With a slight "Oliver" twist.)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ahh, Brave New World!We have a simply marvelous, darling, hotel and museum downtown called the 21C. On my way to visit there for the first time, I ran into a friend who gave me a preview and some tips on what to look for. To quote her late husband, "Wow, man, what a trip."
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Being thereA friend's dad passed away after an illness. About all you can do is to visit and listen. As usual at these times, the conversation swings from thoughtful to absurd, then back, in a heartbeat.
At the end Mike reads a poem for his dad.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deer Season (or not!)Here are some tales of deer hunting in a northern state. The tellers will go unnamed, but you may be able to detect from their accents that they're not from Kentucky!
I'm not a hunter, but I find the matter-of-fact lore of stalking a deer, shooting, and dressing it for food (strange term, "dressing"!) to be admirable.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Meditation on MeditationThese are thoughts about the Lord's Prayer that came out as I sat alone at the breakfast table one day. I've edited out the longer pauses and stumbles.
The thing I enjoy and admire about Rudolf Steiner's writings is that he doesn't give you facts or doctrines to memorize, but simply points toward things you can look into for yourself. Usually they are hard, obscure, or even bizarre, but it is never about adopting his view. It is about the act, the effort, of applying your own attention ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's it worth to ya?Sounds and scenes from the memorabilia appraisal at the Louisville Slugger Museum. Great stuff! You'll hear Fred, his dad and mom, and lots of other characters.
(Musical stingers by .22, The Hoosier Hot Shots, and Edgar Mallaran)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going once, going twice, GONEKathy and Fred revisit the Slugger Factory and Museum to arrange for some old baseball cards to be sold by the appraisal firm. It turns out there's an auction going on right there, right then--what a show!
(Sound effects 'borrowed' from the Kitchensinc baseball game.)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Down there...A quick visit to a gallery to see a very creepy print. If you've ever hesitated while perched on the edge of the cellar stairs... or on the edge of your own murky subconscious...
(Music by Harry Nilsson)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pan (unexpected)You never know where that rascal Pan will show up. Here he appears at an otherwise civilized sculpture exhibit that my friend Jim and I visited. Glad to know he's still out there, keepin' it real.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gimp My RideA tale of a strange place I know all too well, the wheelchair supply house, whose name I'll leave unsaid. I had just come from there and met my crazy new chair, then recounted the story over dinner with our friends Scott and Janie.
Yeah, the place is a real mess, but I love it and feel loyal to it--and hope that comes through in the story. The folks there are like family in an odd way, and they've taken good care of me.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free as a Bee! (Good Garbage)It feels great to get home and take your work clothes off--just ask Pokey the Dog.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dainty, Ja!Another encounter at the Frankfort folk festival. This game is known around Louisville because of our German heritage, and it's played at least once a year in the Germantown neighborhood. This was our first chance to experience the spectacle of it in person.
Once you look past the silliness and difficulty of it, it actually looks like fun. I kinda wanted to try it, but not in the street in public....
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bears in the Woods (GG)Just because this is our, oh I don't know, umpteenth recording on the subject of bathrooms--it doesn't mean we're obsessed with the topic or anything. Really! These things keep coming our way! Is it our fault that bathrooms make great material?
This encounter took place at a folk festival in Frankfort, KY. You'll hear a little of the family band Murphy's Echo at the end.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "We are the world"Some brief and not terribly original thoughts while meditating. So many of the bitter divisions between people arise from the conviction that "we are not of this world," meaning that God has put us here as a sort of trial--after which we will assume our true form. While I agree that the material world is not our true form (or not all of it, in any case), I'd still argue not just that "we are of this world" but that "we are the world." Our job, then, is not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You say cicada...We heard this critter in the trees of New Harmony, Indiana. It's not a call we've heard here.
If you go to songsofinsects.com you'll learn that it's a Scissor-grinder cicada.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mouse House stories (GG)Eric really should start his own podcast--he's such a great source for funny material. Here are a couple of his tales from the Land of the Great Rodent, a k a Disney World.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In the Indiana woods (GG)My day took me near some woods with well-made trails, and I got out of the car to sit amid the trees for a while. Wish I'd had better microphones etc., but making a recording wasn't my goal; it just happened. It's hard to give a sense of how quiet it was and how full that quiet seemed.
I didn't see the bird whose call opens up the recording. A turkey maybe?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't look at me!! (GG)Talking with a friend about his wife's brother and his, er, unusual product.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life or DeathWhen I was called for Jury Duty last month, it turned out that all the potential jurors were being considered for one trial--a murder case with burglary as an "aggravating circumstance." One by one, each juror was interviewed in the presence of the judge, attorneys for the defense and the prosecution, various court officials, and the defendant himself.
I'm not usually tongue-tied, even in public speech, but this setting made me quite uneasy. As you can hear, the words just didn't ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | L - U - C - K - YA story picked up at a conference on mobility and traveling skills of blind people, told by a wonderful instructor named Dona Sauerberger.
All I can say is, Yikes!!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mini-big bucksWhile we're on the subject, here's another little tale about finding money. This one has a different outcome....
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big bucks...One great thing about money is that is shows you something about who people are. Here's a tale about my sister Nance and her son Peter doing the Right Thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living the Dream (Good Garbage)In which Kathy realizes her spiritual union with Stephen Colbert through eating his ice cream; and Fred is relieved of a heavy debt even while taking on another.
Americone Dream, The Final Chapter ... or is it?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blessed by the Fame Fairies (GG)Our neighbor can now, at long last, bask in the reflected glow of our ever-burning fame, rather than a sunny cow-field. Actually, it may not turn out to be an improvement, but try telling that to all the celebrity seekers; they won't listen.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gavi's Diner (GG)I'm happy to have found this place--more for the well-loved and homey feel than for the food--kind of hidden downtown. As you can tell from the conversation, it has its regulars (but then, it's the kind of place where you'd feel like a regular after about three visits).
Apparently the mac & cheese brings 'em in, and breaks their hearts when it's gone!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Plugs, Nipples, Tees, Elbows (Tees Elbows) (GG)It's a strange title for this podcast, but if you sing it like a three-year-old it makes more sense.
This is basically just a trip to Oscar's hardware store with our teenage pal to buy the parts needed for our coat rack project. Somehow we managed to work in some mildly naughty conversation, as we often do.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Egg sounds (GG)Another wistful reminiscence, this time with a side of eggs. Hurry and get dressed already.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Happy Marriage--a tiny tutorialFred and Kathy talk about their marriage on the morning of their 13th wedding anniversary. Listen up, you young people, and thosa you new to marriage, too. Sometimes it is all it's cracked up to be!
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Installing a Faucet, part 2 of 2What cads we've been! How cruel!! It's been weeks since we put up part 1 of this how-tutorial and, whaddya know, some people actually listened to it--but we never got around to posting the climactic conclusion. 'Til now.
By the way, even if you're not into the plumbing thing, the soundtrack is a killer!
Mentioning "climactic conclusion" reminds me of this:
Climax and Anticlimax sat on a fence. Climax blew up; who was left? Aw, nevermind.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What doesn't kill ya, makes ya stronger! (GG)Cary, the barber, is rattled about his near-death encounter with a steak sandwich. His friends show great sympathy, as you can see!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shearin' Time (GG)I borrowed a hair cutting kit and took it to a family gathering. Dad was brave enough to volunteer for the operation! Here is the cast of characters:
Laurie, Stylist/Riveter
Dad, Innocent Victim
Kathy & Mom, Chorus of Doubt
Christopher, Boy Itching to Get in the Game
Fred, Instigator
Roger Tibbs, Yodeler (a sure sign of quality!)
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Time TravelIn a sunny, open hall, in another city, surprised by music from another life played on a borrowed computer.
It's like someone tapping you on the shoulder and saying, "Hey, man...."
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Search of the Americone Dream (GG)Kathy loves Stephen Colbert and believes sampling the Ben & Jerry's ice cream named after him will somehow perfect her spiritual union with him. The search for this elusive ice cream takes us into strange (for us) territory--the suburban cinema multiplex where the youths of America roam in the open expanses.
Faithful listeners will note that this adventure goes the way all of our expeditions go! When will we ever learn? When will we e-e-e-e-e--ever learn?
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | shameless navel-gazing (Good Garbage)To a guy with a hammer, it's said, everything looks like a nail.
Add to that: To a guy with a digital recorder, everything sounds like a deep thought. Still, if you leave out the words and other sounds and listen only to what we were trying to mean, it's not a bad little glimpse into our philosophy.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | They're OFF! (GG)We have an Open House one night each month, and everyone is invited to come by. The night before this year's Derby, Kathy and several others were in the living room while Fred talked with our friends Bill and Brad in the kitchen. Here are some clips from the kitchen side of things, which will show why the title is appropriate.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mini Austin (GG)We walked in a fundraiser for (or probably against) CP. Along the way, we fell in with a happy boy named Austin whose mother was pushing his chair. I found myself pestering him the same way my old elementary school principal used to pester me....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |