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A Walking Meditation For me, the Lord's Prayer is a wonderful meditation, and the more ways I can experience it the more personal it becomes. Maybe it seems inappropriate to take it onto the sidewalks, so to speak, complete with panting from exertion and the noise of traffic, but to me it felt like a small awakening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 27--Choosing to be Born The title of the book Unbornness refers to the state of the soul’s being before birth, as it prepares to be born in its little human form. The book by Peter Selg refutes the image of the giant gumball machine where you turn the handle and a new soul pops out. Instead, he says, it is a very intentional (and often difficult) process that is anything but random. (Music by Emily Barker and Red Clay Halo) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 26--Willing to Love I’ve had a love/hate relationship with programs that propose to promote understanding between identity groups by “breaking barriers,” “building coalitions,” or “finding common ground.” I like the goal, and I’ve gotten to know some great people through these activities, but I’ve always felt more restless than truly changed by them. That said, I like this simple statement about the need to connect with those we see as different from us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 25--Wisdom, without and within Can we consider the three major religions of the Middle East—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—each as an expression of a necessary step in “reconnecting” with the spirit? And can we judge the rightness of these steps without the wisdom of the feminine principle? In this section from How Wide the Heart, Marko Pogacnik poses these questions while traveling in the Holy Lands and seeking solutions to the ancient conflicts there.   ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is it warm in here? An exercise in enhancement Just like body parts, some works of literature require “enhancing” to reach their full potential. In this case, I was pleased to render service to the opening chapter of an audio book I picked up at the library called The Nature of Monsters. See if you don’t agree that a few subtle effects help reveal the point and thrust of the writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 24--The Devil Made Me Do It I was yanked by the hair by this passage from The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. It’s hard to read without the uneasy feeling that Lewis looked down his nose at the working classes and the uneducated, but grappling with that feeling is part of the joy of reading and marveling at it. Above all he is calling for us to become individuals, just as Sardello does, and to allow the same in others.   I think this has great implications ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Any Old Time" -- an audio drama with hidden intent ‘Round this part of this neighborhood of this city, the City Slackers are pretty widely known characters. They’re a well-married couple, and though they have no children, their friends and relations substitute quite well. Sure, Slick and Slack have their peculiarities (as you may detect in this episode), but what’s a little mess among good friends?   {Featuring the talents of Anne O’Saunders, JB, Nan Fontaine, M. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Round the Basepaths" -- An audio drama of much quality Well, friends, let not it be ever said that we, your hosts, were cursed by lack of courage or surplus of talent. Treading the ground trod by Shakespeare and probably a bunch of other people before us, we pay humble tribute to stage drama and the radio shows of old with this presentation and a few more to follow. We hope therewith to plumb the depths of human emotion and cast a glowing light on the hidden caverns of the heart.   This play ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Round the Basepaths" -- an audio drama of much quality Well, friends, let not it be ever said that we, your hosts, were cursed by lack of courage or surplus of talent. Treading the ground trod by Shakespeare and probably a bunch of other people before us, we pay humble tribute to stage drama and the radio shows of old with this presentation and a few more to follow. We hope therewith to plumb the depths of human emotion and cast a glowing light on the hidden caverns of the heart.   This play ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 23--Purpose Dipping back into Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello. This reading has many things, including bone-chewing by the dogs and me doing my best Michael Toms voice (stuffy and nasal). If you can get past those features, you’ll hear about individuality—a sense of the I; how a sense of purpose can well up from within; the heart as an organ of perception; and a bit of Strange Boat by The Waterboys. All this for free! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 22--The Moon Afloat Here are some excerpts from an astronomical calendar for 2011, written by Brian Keats. (His web site is www.astro-calendar.com.)   While these passages mostly relate to the Moon, I particularly like the part where he asks us if we can develop a feeling, not just a thought, for the Earth as a living being. I believe we will only “save the Earth” when we relate to her as a living being and part of us. Without that feeling, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 21--What Is Gratitude – positivity – trust in the world – cultivating these qualities helps bring about forces that teach us about our own destinies. These are forces that can also be healthy for our teaching, our politics, and who knows what else. The reading is from a small and readable book, Coping with Karma by Joop van Dam   (Music from the magnificent piece Thunderhead by Dalglish & Larson). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 20--Tempering the Soul This passage seems appropriate for the beginning of autumn. It’s from David S. Mitchell’s essay “Evil: Our Dance Partner through Life,” which appears in the compilation The Inner Life of the Earth. It’s a look at the condition of being human, which includes the chaos of living divided between our worldly and spiritual natures, and the necessity of what we call “evil” for the development of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 19--Earth-Centered Here is a mind-expander that makes a good example of that “both/and” thinking that I like. In this passage from The Changing Countenance of Cosmology, author Willi Sucher compares a Sun-centered (Copernican) view of the cosmos and an Earth-centered view. Of course, in terms of pure astronomy we know that the Earth and other planets orbit around the Sun; but in terms of astrosophy the Earth plays a central role as the place where material development is most fully realized by the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 18--Wonder, Love, and Conscience Back to reading again after a spring-induced absence. It takes a rainy weekend to get me and my attention back inside!   Here is part of a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the mission of our world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 18--Wonder, Love, and Conscience Back to reading again after a spring-induced absence. It takes a rainy weekend to get me and my attention back inside!   Here is part of a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on the mission of our world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salute the GROG Here’s a story of an initiation ritual told by our young friend Tom. It’s too bad the club wasn’t one he really wanted to be in, because as initiation rituals go, this one sounds like fun! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salute the GROG Here’s a story of an initiation ritual told by our young friend Tom. It’s too bad the club wasn’t one he really wanted to be in, because as initiation rituals go, this one sounds like fun! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 17--Spiritualizing the Senses Part of developing spiritually, for me, is to become more and more aware of how often I bump up against the same old thought patterns, judgments, reactions, and ways of interpreting the world, and then using that knowledge as a reminder to try something totally different. When I complain about the stupidity of other people and their actions, I look for a part of myself that could act that same way; in doing so, I’ve engaged myself in the problem and its solution rather than distancing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 17--Spiritualizing the Senses Part of developing spiritually, for me, is to become more and more aware of how often I bump up against the same old thought patterns, judgments, reactions, and ways of interpreting the world, and then using that knowledge as a reminder to try something totally different. When I complain about the stupidity of other people and their actions, I look for a part of myself that could act that same way; in doing so, I’ve engaged myself in the problem and its solution rathe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 16--Hallelujah Anyway! It can be a great feeling, standing as the bridge between two worlds—being perplexed and nervous on the one hand, and quietly exhilarated on the other—as the body is insisting on happiness in spite of the weighted-down feeling in the mind. This is another reading from Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello that helps us read that compass we carry around.   (Music from Leonard Cohen.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 16--Hallelujah Anyway! It can be a great feeling, standing as the bridge between two worlds—being perplexed and nervous on the one hand, and quietly exhilarated on the other—as the body is insisting on happiness in spite of the weighted-down feeling in the mind. This is another reading from Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello that helps us read that compass we carry around.   (Music from Leonard Cohen.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 15--The Brain is a Screen I’m enjoying a book by Graham Dunstan Martin called Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. In this passage, he looks at philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea that the brain serves as a filter, turning our experience of “All-in-All” into a more individualized experience.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 15--The Brain is a Screen I’m enjoying a book by Graham Dunstan Martin called Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. In this passage, he looks at philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea that the brain serves as a filter, turning our experience of “All-in-All” into a more individualized experience.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 14--Love and Individuality Since it’s Valentine’s Day, we’ll keep on the ‘love’ theme. Here Robert Sardello discusses how the soul engaged in seeking individuality delights in encountering another soul on the same path, and how we might refine our definition of love accordingly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 14--Love and Individuality Since it’s Valentine’s Day, we’ll keep on the ‘love’ theme. Here Robert Sardello discusses how the soul engaged in seeking individuality delights in encountering another soul on the same path, and how we might refine our definition of love accordingly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Valentine's food for thought (sugar-free) An appropriate topic for the Valentine’s “season.” Here Japa (www.pythabacus.com) and I are discussing the power of love as a gift of freedom. As Rudolf Steiner says in Love and Its Meaning in the World, of the three soul forces, wisdom and power are used to affect our future, but love redeems our past. In doing so, it opens up new possibilities for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Valentine's food for thought (sugar-free) An appropriate topic for the Valentine’s “season.” Here Japa (www.pythabacus.com) and I are discussing the power of love as a gift of freedom. As Rudolf Steiner says in Love and Its Meaning in the World, of the three soul forces, wisdom and power are used to affect our future, but love redeems our past. In doing so, it opens up new possibilities for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 13--The Importance of Feeling Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello is a challenging book, and I'm not very far into it yet, but already I have a sense that it is the kind of eye-opening work that will have a deeper effect than words on a page usually do. For one thing, Sardello makes distinctions between words that we often confuse, such as feeling and emotion, and these differences help point to something deeper in ourselves. This passage comes from a chapter in which he discusses the importance of individuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 13--The Importance of Feeling Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello is a challenging book, and I'm not very far into it yet, but already I have a sense that it is the kind of eye-opening work that will have a deeper effect than words on a page usually do. For one thing, Sardello makes distinctions between words that we often confuse, such as feeling and emotion, and these differences help point to something deeper in ourselves. This passage comes from a chapter in which he discusses the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 12--Fighting "Evil" A reading from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, reminding us that the most important work we can do to combat evil is to address it in ourselves. Just what that truly means, of course, could be a lifetime's work to figure out. If only our churches and religious "leaders" would help.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 12--Fighting "Evil" A reading from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom, reminding us that the most important work we can do to combat evil is to address it in ourselves. Just what that truly means, of course, could be a lifetime's work to figure out. If only our churches and religious "leaders" would help.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Participate After what I can only call a shitstorm of a week in politics and world events, I find that I need some way of thinking about my place in the world that keeps the exercise of hope alive. Here are some thoughts I recorded before running off to bury my head in the ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Participate After what I can only call a shitstorm of a week in politics and world events, I find that I need some way of thinking about my place in the world that keeps the exercise of hope alive. Here are some thoughts I recorded before running off to bury my head in the ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't ask, don't tell To shake things up a little, here's a very silly naughty bit from a gathering we went to. In her defense, Kathy was tired, and she is not responsible for anything she says or feels (ahem!) in that condition. (Music by David Bowie and Sinead O'Connor) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't ask, don't tell To shake things up a little, here's a very silly naughty bit from a gathering we went to, where all the blind folks had penned up their guide dogs out back. In her defense, Kathy was tired, and she is not responsible for anything she says or feels (ahem!) in that condition. (Music by David Bowie and Sinead O'Connor) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 11--Inner Revelation Looking into An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford again. This passage is interesting because it suggests that in reading the natural world and in reading the Bible, we are learning about events that take place within ourselves. Again, we're trying to crack the glass that makes us feel as if we're separate from the past; trying to see all of creation as wise and deeply involved in humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 11--Inner Revelation Looking into An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford again. This passage is interesting because it suggests that in reading the natural world and in reading the Bible, we are learning about events that take place within ourselves. Again, we're trying to crack the glass that makes us feel as if we're separate from the past; trying to see all of creation as wise and deeply involved in humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ways of Looking at Death Japa, the man and mind behind www.pythabacus.com, sat down at the end of last summer to talk of many things. In this piece of the conversation, he talks about the different kinds of death, all of which involve surrendering our consciousness to something outside of us, be it Luciferic or Ahrimanic in nature. The deed of Christ that our churches tell us about begins to come into sharper focus as we consider what "victory over death" might mean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ways of Looking at Death Japa, the man and mind behind www.pythabacus.com, sat down at the end of last summer to talk of many things. In this piece of the conversation, he talks about the different kinds of death, all of which involve surrendering our consciousness to something outside of us, be it Luciferic or Ahrimanic in nature. The deed of Christ that our churches tell us about begins to come into sharper focus as we consider what "victory over death" might mean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 10--Cut-and-paste Theology? This one is more of a commentary than a reading. I'll admit up front that I haven't done full justice to Erik Reece's book An American Gospel by picking select passages to respond to. Still, there is a tendency among those who (rightly) criticize religions for being corrupted to throw out the original message along with the corrupt messengers, and I'm trying to pull some of it back from the scrap pile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 10--Cut-and-paste Theology? This one is more of a commentary than a reading. I'll admit up front that I haven't done full justice to Erik Reece's book An American Gospel by picking select passages to respond to. Still, there is a tendency among those who (rightly) criticize religions for being corrupted to throw out the original message along with the corrupt messengers, and I'm trying to pull some of it back from the scrap pile. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 9--Reincarnation in St. John? I'm no scholar, theologian or historian--just a simple caveman, really--but I've heard that the truth of reincarnation was widely known and accepted in earlier times. Did something happen to stamp out this knowledge? I don't pretend to know. But I can't see anything demonic or anti-Christian in exploring how the idea of reincarnation and Christianity can be compatible. Maybe this kind of exploration can even enliven our understanding of the more difficult (and misused) texts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 9--Reincarnation in St. John? I'm no scholar, theologian or historian--just a simple caveman, really--but I've heard that the truth of reincarnation was widely known and accepted in earlier times. Did something happen to stamp out this knowledge? I don't pretend to know. But I can't see anything demonic or anti-Christian in exploring how the idea of reincarnation and Christianity can be compatible. Maybe this kind of exploration can even enliven our understanding of the more difficult (and misused) text ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 8--For New Year's Thanks to our friend Bill Wells for giving us a copy of this prayer of gratitude. It has a kind of "bread and roses" feel to it for me, as it acknowledges that we can love both our labor and our leisure. Happy New Year, everyone! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 8--For New Year's Thanks to our friend Bill Wells for giving us a copy of this prayer of gratitude. It has a kind of "bread and roses" feel to it for me, as it acknowledges that we can love both our labor and our leisure. Happy New Year, everyone! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 7--Patriotism and Conviction I am disappointed that the (somewhat) more progressive leadership we now have in the US has kept the terminology "War on Terror" intact. I've rejected that term from the start, because we cannot eradicate ideas, animosities, and practices by force. We may never attain true peace, but if we do it will not be through war. We should not use the language of a Holy Crusade to describe what must be an internal change for all of us! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 7--Patriotism and Conviction I am disappointed that the (somewhat) more progressive leadership we now have in the US has kept the terminology "War on Terror" intact. I've rejected that term from the start, because we cannot eradicate ideas, animosities, and practices by force. We may never attain true peace, but if we do it will not be through war. We should not use the language of a Holy Crusade to describe what must be an internal change for all of us! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 6--Evolution and Karma This is a somewhat longer reading, again taken from The Universe in a Single Atom. Rather than viewing evolution as the results of random variations that compete for survival, we look at a different idea based on the interplay of energy and consciousness. The result is karma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 6--Evolution and Karma This is a somewhat longer reading, again taken from The Universe in a Single Atom. Rather than viewing evolution as the results of random variations that compete for survival, we look at a different idea based on the interplay of energy and consciousness. The result is karma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 5--Love in the World There is a lot to consider here in this short passage from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner. I think there's a connection to the earlier themes of sacrifice, in that we're asked to give love in the greatest measure possible without any personal reward coming from it.   (Musical lead-in from Tears for Fears) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 5--Love in the World There is a lot to consider here in this short passage from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner. I think there's a connection to the earlier themes of sacrifice, in that we're asked to give love in the greatest measure possible without any personal reward coming from it.   (Musical lead-in from Tears for Fears) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carolers! Just a few songs from some carolers who showed up, to our great surprise. I think it's a nice old tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Carolers! Just a few songs from some carolers who showed up, to our great surprise. I think it's a nice old tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 4--Interconnection in Science and Spirit All the big hairy questions about the mind, matter, the reality of reality, trees falling in the forest, consciousness, and so on will probably not be fully answered (not even by these podcasts)for a long time to come. Still, it's interesting to see that science often has to step outside its own borders to develop explanations for the newer discoveries, and how close this sometimes takes it to the territory of philosophy and spirituality. In this passage, the Dalai Lama points to a way of a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 4--Interconnection in Science and Spirit All the big hairy questions about the mind, matter, the reality of reality, trees falling in the forest, consciousness, and so on will probably not be fully answered (not even by these podcasts)for a long time to come. Still, it's interesting to see that science often has to step outside its own borders to develop explanations for the newer discoveries, and how close this sometimes takes it to the territory of philosophy and spirituality. In this passage, the Dalai Lama poi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 3--Sacrifice This reading comes from An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford. This being autumn, maybe our thoughts turn naturally to images of releasing and transforming. I'm thinking now about sacrifice, both the outer, visible kind we may make and the inner, invisible kind Bamford suggests we are always experiencing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 3--Sacrifice This reading comes from An Endless Trace by Christopher Bamford. This being autumn, maybe our thoughts turn naturally to images of releasing and transforming. I'm thinking now about sacrifice, both the outer, visible kind we may make and the inner, invisible kind Bamford suggests we are always experiencing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 2--Being awake and aware This reading, from a book by The Dalai Lama, concerns mental activity and what it means to have awareness. He is fascinating because his wealth of ancient learning and his interest in modern technology help him stand astride two worlds, and he is comfortable being that bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 2--Being awake and aware This reading, from a book by The Dalai Lama, concerns mental activity and what it means to have awareness. He is fascinating because his wealth of ancient learning and his interest in modern technology help him stand astride two worlds, and he is comfortable being that bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 1--Angelic activity I (Fred, that is) am starting a new thing with this installment. I plan to post some readings of written passages that appeal to me, or spark my interest in some way or another. The idea is not to preach but to sow ideas around in a way that gives people food for thought, or for play, or imagination. There is enough intellectual debate already on the Internet. There are a lot of scholars and would-be theologians poised to flex their well-developed arguing skills and back their opponents in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reading 1--Angelic activity I (Fred, that is) am starting a new thing with this installment. I plan to post some readings of written passages that appeal to me, or spark my interest in some way or another. The idea is not to preach but to sow ideas around in a way that gives people food for thought, or for play, or imagination. There is enough intellectual debate already on the Internet. There are a lot of scholars and would-be theologians poised to flex their well-developed arguing s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Boat of Fools Play along with our Puzzle Segment and win valuable prizes! This week we have a well-traveled but gently used sack of corn, a flightless goose, and a dim-witted fox, all going to our lucky winner. Please note that YOU are responsible for pickup and transportation. The over-the-fence voices in this episode belong to Kris and Terrie, our neighbors. You'll also hear a little of Car Talk and some Cacklin' Sax by Boots Randolph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Boat of Fools Play along with our Puzzle Segment and win valuable prizes! This week we have a well-traveled but gently used sack of corn, a flightless goose, and a dim-witted fox, all going to our lucky winner. Please note that YOU are responsible for pickup and transportation. The over-the-fence voices in this episode belong to Kris and Terrie, our neighbors. You'll also hear a little of Car Talk and some Cacklin' Sax by Boots Randolph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some perp has MY silver My parents' house was robbed a few weeks ago, evidently in broad daylight. The thieves knew what they were after--silverware and nothing else. The job was neat, quick, not too thorough, and overall creepy. Music: Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some perp has MY silver My parents' house was robbed a few weeks ago, evidently in broad daylight. The thieves knew what they were after--silverware and nothing else. The job was neat, quick, not too thorough, and overall creepy. Music: Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Capture the Flag Our good friend Doug told this tale from his days on board ship in the later years of the Vietnam war. Boys will be boys.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Capture the Flag Our good friend Doug told this tale from his days on board ship in the later years of the Vietnam war. Boys will be boys.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | By a Faint Light (a story) I intended to write a story; it was to be a story of a powerful dragon, called Word, who outlasted all attempts to conquer it, though there would be one warrior who would alter the tale forever, of course. The dragon was neither malign nor benign but simply vast, maybe unknowable, and champions fell and died at its base the way climbers die on forbidding mountains, and for the same reasons. Before the story began, though, I had to know my subject, and that proved hard. True, I was the one m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | By a Faint Light (a story) I intended to write a story; it was to be a story of a powerful dragon, called Word, who outlasted all attempts to conquer it, though there would be one warrior who would alter the tale forever, of course. The dragon was neither malign nor benign but simply vast, maybe unknowable, and champions fell and died at its base the way climbers die on forbidding mountains, and for the same reasons. Before the story began, though, I had to know my subject, and that p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Help Kids Like Me! I'm not a big fan of using the pity card to get loot. That, and I have a demented sense of humor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Help Kids Like Me! I'm not a big fan of using the pity card to get loot. That, and I have a demented sense of humor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Neat Sh*t Wow. I've become one of those people who wander the streets talking to themselves out loud. It had better pay off by making me say something interesting eventually. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Neat Sh*t Wow. I've become one of those people who wander the streets talking to themselves out loud. It had better pay off by making me say something interesting eventually. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hello! Go away! Get lost! Welcome! Betcha thought we'd vanished, dincha? You oughta know we can't quit this crazy business. It's in our blood. Once you've had a tast of the Big Time yer hooked, and even when yer taking yer last breath you'll check to see if the mic is on and the levels are set right.... Here is some silliness in the tradition of The Dusty Show on WFMU.org.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hello! Go away! Get lost! Welcome! Betcha thought we'd vanished, dincha? You oughta know we can't quit this crazy business. It's in our blood. Once you've had a tast of the Big Time yer hooked, and even when yer taking yer last breath you'll check to see if the mic is on and the levels are set right.... Here is some silliness in the tradition of The Dusty Show on WFMU.org.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth! Such a big delay between new podcasts--not sure why, except people just haven't been very funny or profound lately. And that definitely includes me most of all.... Thank heavens for Tina, coming to the rescue with this story about lying to children. It has drama, repentence, and even a moral for the ages. For comparison, listen to the Dec. 2007 piece called Terrible Babysitters! (Music by Solana from the album Shaka Island.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth! Such a big delay between new podcasts--not sure why, except people just haven't been very funny or profound lately. And that definitely includes me most of all.... Thank heavens for Tina, coming to the rescue with this story about lying to children. It has drama, repentence, and even a moral for the ages. For comparison, listen to the Dec. 2007 piece called Terrible Babysitters! (Music by Solana from the album Shaka Island.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Old Ways! Seems like some of those old-timers really knew a thing or two. Here's a dinner-table of people recalling some of the good old-timers and their good old ways. Kerosene, anyone? (I'm Still Here by John Hartford.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Old Ways! Seems like some of those old-timers really knew a thing or two. Here's a dinner-table of people recalling some of the good old-timers and their good old ways. Kerosene, anyone? (I'm Still Here by John Hartford.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Calling All Zombies Kathy & Fred go walking on Halloween night and realize there's nothing to be scared of. Even zombies are just ordinary folks trying to get by. (Music from Zombie Dance by The Cramps.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Calling All Zombies Kathy & Fred go walking on Halloween night and realize there's nothing to be scared of. Even zombies are just ordinary folks trying to get by. (Music from Zombie Dance by The Cramps.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When Doves Fly Jean Parker is an independent radio journalist who lives in India. She told this great story about visiting Libya while sitting in our kitchen this summer. File this one under "It's a big, strange world," I guess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When Doves Fly Jean Parker is an independent radio journalist who lives in India. She told this great story about visiting Libya while sitting in our kitchen this summer. File this one under "It's a big, strange world," I guess. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Election Special Okay, the title is a little misleading. This is really just some musing about the kinds of people I like to think I'm not really one of, and some thoughts to steady myself for the upcoming election, whatever the outcome. (Music by The 747s.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Election Special Okay, the title is a little misleading. This is really just some musing about the kinds of people I like to think I'm not really one of, and some thoughts to steady myself for the upcoming election, whatever the outcome. (Music by The 747s.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Katikam and Terrikem A kitchen table chat between childhood friends--Listen to realize how very very very lucky young people are when their adults regard them as real people and have real expectations of them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Katikam and Terrikem A kitchen table chat between childhood friends--Listen to realize how very very very lucky young people are when their adults regard them as real people and have real expectations of them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | That was simple!! Ahh, technology. Is there anything it can't improve? Here we have some madness as our pal Rachel adds pal Jack to her list of cell phone contacts using the miracle that is "voice recognition." It turns the process of dialing someone who is sitting in the same room into something like an international incident. It also shows that New Yorkers don't back down from a fight! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | That was simple!! Ahh, technology. Is there anything it can't improve? Here we have some madness as our pal Rachel adds pal Jack to her list of cell phone contacts using the miracle that is "voice recognition." It turns the process of dialing someone who is sitting in the same room into something like an international incident. It also shows that New Yorkers don't back down from a fight! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I want my Mommy! My sister Nance and I got the chance to take a weekend trip together recently. During the middle of it, we were thrown back in time to another, far more fateful, trip we'd taken long ago. To this day, the mention of Rolla, Missouri sends an icy chill up our spines--for reasons you will see! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I want my Mommy! My sister Nance and I got the chance to take a weekend trip together recently. During the middle of it, we were thrown back in time to another, far more fateful, trip we'd taken long ago. To this day, the mention of Rolla, Missouri sends an icy chill up our spines--for reasons you will see! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ken More solo Another drum extravaganza caught live. Dude, this guy is awesome!! And the crowd is crazy!! This is from the song Air Dry, No Heat, available only in our laundry room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ken More solo Another drum extravaganza caught live. Dude, this guy is awesome!! And the crowd is crazy!! This is from the song Air Dry, No Heat, available only in our laundry room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beat You can flop down on a sofa in a department store and wait it out, or you can go the the street and get out among 'em! Here's a clip from Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beat You can flop down on a sofa in a department store and wait it out, or you can go the the street and get out among 'em! Here's a clip from Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Going Process The Going Process is a universal constant and is expressed like this: Whether you are going out for the afternoon to run errands... or going away for one night... or going on a week-long trip... it's a process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Going Process The Going Process is a universal constant and is expressed like this: Whether you are going out for the afternoon to run errands... or going away for one night... or going on a week-long trip... it's a process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Clownin' 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 | Clownin' 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 | Signalman We 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 | Signalman We 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 | Practice Taken 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 | Practice Taken 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sounds of mildlife In 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 | Sounds of mildlife In 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 forest Talking 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 | A clearing in the forest Talking 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 | VROOOMvroomverververvrvervrooom We'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 | VROOOMvroomverververvrvervrooom We'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 Jam From 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 | Techno Butterfly Banjo Jam From 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) Crazy Here'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 | Stir (Fry) Crazy Here'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 Explanation Here'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 | Another Explanation Here'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 | 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 Babysitters Two 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 | Terrible Babysitters Two 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 | 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 there A 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 | Being there A 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 | 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 Meditation These 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 | A Meditation on Meditation These 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 effor ... 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 | 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, GONE Kathy 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 | Going once, going twice, GONE Kathy 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 | 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 | 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 Ride A 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 | Gimp My Ride A 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | "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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Death When 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life or Death When 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 - Y A 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 | L - U - C - K - Y A 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 bucks While 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 | Mini-big bucks While 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 tutorial Fred 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 | A Happy Marriage--a tiny tutorial Fred 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 2 What 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Installing a Faucet, part 2 of 2 What 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 | 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 | 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 Travel In 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 | Time Travel In 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | View full cache | You can't take that away from me! (GG) Fred comes from a line of larceny and skullduggery (well, plantduggery), as shown herein. With parents like these--leapin' lizards, that's why he's a punk! Dinner music by Swing 39. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You can't take that away from me! (GG) Fred comes from a line of larceny and skullduggery (well, plantduggery), as shown herein. With parents like these--leapin' lizards, that's why he's a punk! Dinner music by Swing 39. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What Guys Talk About (GG) We are highly sophisticated and multi-dimensional creatures, we guys are. Here is a conversation after a basketball workout. (The nuts referred to, by the way, were supposed to be holding a wheelchair footrest together, but I guess that word can be multi-dimensional, too.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What Guys Talk About (GG) We are highly sophisticated and multi-dimensional creatures, we guys are. Here is a conversation after a basketball workout. (The nuts referred to, by the way, were supposed to be holding a wheelchair footrest together, but I guess that word can be multi-dimensional, too.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fixing PVC hose line Just about what you'd think from the title, with a few amusing moments. Joining lengths of PVC tube together with couplers, then hoping for no leaks when the water comes on! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fixing PVC hose line Just about what you'd think from the title, with a few amusing moments. Joining lengths of PVC tube together with couplers, then hoping for no leaks when the water comes on! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reflections...of EVIL! (GG) At the offbeat movie rental shop, we got into discussing Reflections of Evil, which was on my list of movies to see. Apparently it provokes strong reactions! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reflections...of EVIL! (GG) At the offbeat movie rental shop, we got into discussing Reflections of Evil, which was on my list of movies to see. Apparently it provokes strong reactions! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MY grill...Talkin' about myyy grill...(GG) We get way up in your grill (well, ours actually) with this audio spectacularama. Just listen to the sparks! Things got so dag-blag flashy I had to call my Dad to make sure we were doing things right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MY grill...Talkin' about myyy grill...(GG) We get way up in your grill (well, ours actually) with this audio spectacularama. Just listen to the sparks! Things got so dag-blag flashy I had to call my Dad to make sure we were doing things right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 years on... (3 of 3) See notes for part 1. This one has more Duanne and less me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 years on... (3 of 3) See notes for part 1. This one has more Duanne and less me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 years on... (2 of 3) See notes for part 1. This is another piece of our conversation in Duanne's room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 years on... (2 of 3) See notes for part 1. This is another piece of our conversation in Duanne's room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 years on... (1 of 3) She was 16; I was 7. The beginning of a really awful romance novel? Not at all! The beginning of a really neat relationship with a decades-long gap in the middle of it. Duanne remembers my visiting her room in the rehab center when I was but a plucky wee lad, and apparently it gave her the lift she needed at the time. Now, as she recovers from a recent operation, we reunite. Duanne's friend, a feature columnist for the Courier-Journal, i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Party While the Bombs Fall! Kathy's Hungarian dad talks about his wild teenage times while Budapest was under siege in December 1944.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Party While the Bombs Fall! Kathy's Hungarian dad talks about his wild teenage times while Budapest was under siege in December 1944.   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | hail, hail (GG) We had a great hailstorm a few days ago, and Kathy caught some of it.  Definitely use your headphones to listen to the storm from without and within! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | hail, hail (GG) We had a great hailstorm a few days ago, and Kathy caught some of it.  Definitely use your headphones to listen to the storm from without and within! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Schultz!!! (GG) Fred's old friend Eric has a great memory for funny incidents. Here at a visitation he fondly recalls two moments with his late father-in-law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Schultz!!! (GG) Fred's old friend Eric has a great memory for funny incidents. Here at a visitation he fondly recalls two moments with his late father-in-law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hey, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (GG) You gotta take your epiphanies when you find 'em. In this case, it was a restroom. Which is a good place to go to take epiphany time! Har har! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Step Up, Kill the Pigs (GG) Two hard-core radicals embark on a crusade to change...? kill...? Well, something, we're not sure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Step Up, Kill the Pigs (GG) Two hard-core radicals embark on a crusade to change...? kill...? Well, something, we're not sure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dining Out: Boiled Peanut Van By The Highway (GG) A southern culinary adventure. Really, if you look past the texture, the spongy feel, the smell, the unappealing look, and the extreme briny-ness, they're not all that bad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dining Out: Boiled Peanut Van By The Highway (GG) A southern culinary adventure. Really, if you look past the texture, the spongy feel, the smell, the unappealing look, and the extreme briny-ness, they're not all that bad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Airport Insecurity (GG) Funny conversation with a stranger in the Tampa airport who overheard Kathy reading aloud. And he's right, the pilot did look as if he'd come from a weekend frat party! I was thinking of naming this post Peanut Butter & Jihad, but thought that might be going too far.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Airport Insecurity (GG) Funny conversation with a stranger in the Tampa airport who overheard Kathy reading aloud. And he's right, the pilot did look as if he'd come from a weekend frat party! I was thinking of naming this post Peanut Butter & Jihad, but thought that might be going too far.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thanksbyebye (GG) Always being the last ones to leave the airplane, we get to hear all the farewells being said. It usually strikes me as a ritual that makes the challenging and honorable job of flight attendant seem, well, kinda silly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blind? Need a car? No worries! (GG) Because the service counters are built at a height suitable for NBA players, Kathy had to do all the paperwork duties at the airport auto garage. Lucky for us, Florida seems to have no rules about renting cars to totally blind people! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blind? Need a car? No worries! (GG) Because the service counters are built at a height suitable for NBA players, Kathy had to do all the paperwork duties at the airport auto garage. Lucky for us, Florida seems to have no rules about renting cars to totally blind people! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sheeesh! (GG) At the ballpark...guy in charge of summoning the elevator can't figure out how to speak to us...we get in...he turns back a crowd of other people wanting to ride too...points to the dog.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sheeesh! (GG) At the ballpark...guy in charge of summoning the elevator can't figure out how to speak to us...we get in...he turns back a crowd of other people wanting to ride too...points to the dog.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Washer Boogie (GG) Okay, this one is ridiculous, but it's short. And clean. And static-free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Washer Boogie (GG) Okay, this one is ridiculous, but it's short. And clean. And static-free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bumbling with a Bee (Good Garbage) Another 'cast from a summer past...A bee encounter, with some schlepping music for accompaniment. (Can I say "schlepping" if I'm not Jewish?) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Mighty Jicama (GG) Five Fabulous Topics crammed into 11 minutes of conversation: A head cold, slutty drinks, the wondrous jicama, the Mystery Song, and non-fat French women. Fret not; there is no quiz and the cold only lasted one day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Mighty Jicama (GG) Five Fabulous Topics crammed into 11 minutes of conversation: A head cold, slutty drinks, the wondrous jicama, the Mystery Song, and non-fat French women. Fret not; there is no quiz and the cold only lasted one day! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Installing a Faucet, part 1 of 2 The Intrepid Pair take on installing a new bathroom sink faucet. Thrill to the sounds of tools, water, marriage, and music! Better yet, get your own faucet kit and play along! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Installing a Faucet, part 1 of 2 The Intrepid Pair take on installing a new bathroom sink faucet. Thrill to the sounds of tools, water, marriage, and music! Better yet, get your own faucet kit and play along! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Summer Job tales (GG) Reminiscing about a summer job with Patty, who always makes me laugh and who finally has a job she loves, working at the library. (Musical clips from "La Polka du Colonel" by Andri Popp.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Summer Job tales (GG) Reminiscing about a summer job with Patty, who always makes me laugh and who finally has a job she loves, working at the library. (Musical clips from "La Polka du Colonel" by Andri Popp.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Old friends ride the bus (GG) Kathy & her friend from childhood getting to, and into, the bus. Just the sounds of life, no big deal, but it adds up. (With a sentimental soundtrack from a group called "Danny Fong Extraordinaire.") Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Penitentiary (GG) Our ex-chorus visits the state pen to sing. Voices of the interesting chorus characters (!), footsteps, doors locking behind us and opening in front...and a song. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Penitentiary (GG) Our ex-chorus visits the state pen to sing. Voices of the interesting chorus characters (!), footsteps, doors locking behind us and opening in front...and a song. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sometimes ya gotta change the Bed (GG) Kathy teaches the young people how to change a bed and muses about other bed topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sometimes ya gotta change the Bed (GG) Kathy teaches the young people how to change a bed and muses about other bed topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Within" A melancholy short story (my first). It grew from the question, "Do our opinions have any value in the world?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | "Within" A melancholy short story (my first). It grew from the question, "Do our opinions have any value in the world?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waldorf teaching theories 2 Continues the conversation with Japa Buckner about healthy child development, the Waldorf classroom, and how our ideals are dead things unless we enliven them through our own forces. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bad fences make good neighbors (GG) Losing a view and a neighbor in one swoop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bad fences make good neighbors (GG) Losing a view and a neighbor in one swoop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wild Oats Bathroom of the Future (GG) Just a bit of silly talk at the Wild Oats health food store, with some dire portents for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wild Oats Bathroom of the Future (GG) Just a bit of silly talk at the Wild Oats health food store, with some dire portents for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baptist, Korean style (GG) I suppose when you go shopping for squid-flavored snacks, you gotta take what comes. Note the dejection which follows when I state I'm not a church-goer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baptist, Korean style (GG) I suppose when you go shopping for squid-flavored snacks, you gotta take what comes. Note the dejection which follows when I state I'm not a church-goer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When worlds collide (GG) An attempt to bring the cultures together, and yet somehow wrong. So very, very wrong. And probably not legal. Please forgive me! I meant well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Latte Learning (GG) Forget Deal, Millionaire, and all those impostors. This is the World Cup of coffee and we're playing for all the beans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Latte Learning (GG) Forget Deal, Millionaire, and all those impostors. This is the World Cup of coffee and we're playing for all the beans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taste of Spring (GG) Reminder of spring and what it means to a dog on a string who loves peas and beans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taste of Spring (GG) Reminder of spring and what it means to a dog on a string who loves peas and beans Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waldorf teaching theories 1 Taken from a conversation with Japa Buckner, teacher in the Louisville Waldorf school. Touches on the forces that shape a child's development; importance of rhythms; "vessels" for holding learning; and the relationship between teacher and student as the basis for education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waldorf teaching theories 1 Taken from a conversation with Japa Buckner, teacher in the Louisville Waldorf school. Touches on the forces that shape a child's development; importance of rhythms; "vessels" for holding learning; and the relationship between teacher and student as the basis for education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toilet repair, part 3 (GG) Some say TR2 jumped the shark, failing to live up to the lofty expectations spawned by TR1. "Worst toilet repair podcast ever" was a typical remark, echoed by thousands. Still, comforted by the fact that even George Lucas made some clinkers, we press on with the stunning finale of the series. And if you're tuning in to toilet repair podcasts, you probably don't have cause to be too critical anyway.... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dripolero (GG) You'll never hear your coffeemaker in quite the same way; I know we don't! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dripolero (GG) You'll never hear your coffeemaker in quite the same way; I know we don't! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Phantom Phonebooth (GG) An odd discovery on a street in Frankfort, KY. With a nod to Clay Pigeon of The Dusty Show on WFMU, whose shadow we are not worthy to stand in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Phantom Phonebooth (GG) An odd discovery on a street in Frankfort, KY. With a nod to Clay Pigeon of The Dusty Show on WFMU, whose shadow we are not worthy to stand in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Perfect High (GG) A walk on a leafy fall day, with some good sounds of the neighborhood. Perfect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Perfect High (GG) A walk on a leafy fall day, with some good sounds of the neighborhood. Perfect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | from dark to dawn birds wake up (GG) A sweet taste of a summer morning from Kathy, the early riser in the group. Builds slowly but hey, it's summer, what's the hurry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toilet repair, part 2 (GG) Sequel to the smash hit Toilet Repair, part 1. This episode moves things along but, true to the cliffhanger tradition, leaves the repair unfinished. You'll be on the edge of your seat! Heh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toilet repair, part 2 (GG) Sequel to the smash hit Toilet Repair, part 1. This episode moves things along but, true to the cliffhanger tradition, leaves the repair unfinished. You'll be on the edge of your seat! Heh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anthroposophy reading groups Conversation with Janey Newton, artist and longtime Waldorf teacher, touching on how reading groups can be conducted and on things she's learned over the years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anthroposophy reading groups Conversation with Janey Newton, artist and longtime Waldorf teacher, touching on how reading groups can be conducted and on things she's learned over the years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toilet repair, part 1 (Good Garbage) Part 1 of 3; We narrate the process of changing the flush lever or whatever it's called. On the way, we give an audio tour of the inner workings of your basic water throne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Toilet repair, part 1 (Good Garbage) Part 1 of 3; We narrate the process of changing the flush lever or whatever it's called. On the way, we give an audio tour of the inner workings of your basic water throne. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |