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A Walking Meditation Updated: 2011-05-09 02:20:43 Description: 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 o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 27--Choosing to be Born Updated: 2011-02-20 00:53:35 Description: 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 ne...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 26--Willing to Love Updated: 2011-01-26 16:49:09 Description: 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&...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 25--Wisdom, without and within Updated: 2011-01-22 05:00:24 Description: 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 th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is it warm in here? An exercise in enhancement Updated: 2011-01-22 04:50:05 Description: 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 Monste...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 24--The Devil Made Me Do It Updated: 2010-12-30 00:12:16 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "Any Old Time" -- an audio drama with hidden intent Updated: 2010-12-24 03:56:36 Description: ‘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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "Round the Basepaths" -- An audio drama of much quality Updated: 2010-12-20 04:43:49 Description: 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 radi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 23--Purpose Updated: 2010-12-08 04:24:32 Description: 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 individua...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 22--The Moon Afloat Updated: 2010-11-30 04:27:48 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 21--What Is Updated: 2010-09-27 00:19:32 Description: 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 e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 20--Tempering the Soul Updated: 2010-09-26 18:07:20 Description: 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 con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 19--Earth-Centered Updated: 2010-08-24 03:01:00 Description: 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 Eart...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 18--Wonder, Love, and Conscience Updated: 2010-04-26 01:01:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Salute the GROG Updated: 2010-04-25 17:05:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 17--Spiritualizing the Senses Updated: 2010-03-23 03:11:00 Description: 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 someth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 16--Hallelujah Anyway! Updated: 2010-03-03 03:31:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 15--The Brain is a Screen Updated: 2010-02-25 02:50:00 Description: 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 &l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 14--Love and Individuality Updated: 2010-02-14 21:41:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Some Valentine's food for thought (sugar-free) Updated: 2010-02-12 03:21:00 Description: 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, wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 13--The Importance of Feeling Updated: 2010-02-01 03:27:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 12--Fighting "Evil" Updated: 2010-01-22 22:41:00 Description: 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 r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Participate Updated: 2010-01-22 22:01:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Don't ask, don't tell Updated: 2010-01-20 04:27:00 Description: 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 (a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 11--Inner Revelation Updated: 2010-01-17 22:37:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ways of Looking at Death Updated: 2010-01-15 04:06:00 Description: 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 someth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 10--Cut-and-paste Theology? Updated: 2010-01-12 03:35:00 Description: 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 rel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 9--Reincarnation in St. John? Updated: 2010-01-04 00:54:00 Description: 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 ca...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 8--For New Year's Updated: 2010-01-01 04:16:00 Description: 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! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 7--Patriotism and Conviction Updated: 2009-12-30 04:26:00 Description: 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 b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 6--Evolution and Karma Updated: 2009-12-20 03:05:00 Description: 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 conscious...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 5--Love in the World Updated: 2009-12-08 04:13:00 Description: 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 com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Carolers! Updated: 2009-12-08 03:56:00 Description: Just a few songs from some carolers who showed up, to our great surprise. I think it's a nice old tradition. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 4--Interconnection in Science and Spirit Updated: 2009-11-26 04:43:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 3--Sacrifice Updated: 2009-11-23 16:35:00 Description: 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, i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 2--Being awake and aware Updated: 2009-11-11 03:52:00 Description: 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 com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reading 1--Angelic activity Updated: 2009-11-09 03:43:00 Description: 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 pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Boat of Fools Updated: 2009-10-09 03:17:00 Description: 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Some perp has MY silver Updated: 2009-06-28 03:46:00 Description: 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 Addic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Capture the Flag Updated: 2009-06-28 03:36:00 Description: 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.... ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD By a Faint Light (a story) Updated: 2009-06-13 03:04:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Help Kids Like Me! Updated: 2009-05-20 03:49:00 Description: I'm not a big fan of using the pity card to get loot. That, and I have a demented sense of humor. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Neat Sh*t Updated: 2009-05-20 03:42:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hello! Go away! Get lost! Welcome! Updated: 2009-05-09 02:36:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD You want the truth? You can't HANDLE the truth! Updated: 2008-12-21 04:55:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Old Ways! Updated: 2008-11-24 04:08:00 Description: 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.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Calling All Zombies Updated: 2008-11-24 03:58:00 Description: 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.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD When Doves Fly Updated: 2008-10-30 02:32:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Election Special Updated: 2008-10-28 15:23:00 Description: 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.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Katikam and Terrikem Updated: 2008-10-28 03:24:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD That was simple!! Updated: 2008-10-27 02:30:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD I want my Mommy! Updated: 2008-09-03 02:55:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ken More solo Updated: 2008-08-05 04:08:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beat Updated: 2008-08-05 02:51:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Going Process Updated: 2008-07-17 15:35:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clownin' Updated: 2008-07-04 02:41:00 Description: 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) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Signalman Updated: 2008-06-24 02:42:00 Description: 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] ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Practice Updated: 2008-05-07 03:17:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Not In My Back Yard! Updated: 2008-05-07 03:09:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD No More Mr. and Ms. Nice Persons!! Updated: 2008-04-16 04:04:00 Description: 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 h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD One or two? Updated: 2008-04-03 03:24:00 Description: 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 prac...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sounds of mildlife Updated: 2008-03-17 03:31:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A clearing in the forest Updated: 2008-03-09 04:10:00 Description: 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 co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD VROOOMvroomverververvrvervrooom Updated: 2008-03-09 02:16:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Techno Butterfly Banjo Jam Updated: 2008-02-14 03:52:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stir (Fry) Crazy Updated: 2008-02-07 04:23:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Another Explanation Updated: 2008-01-22 04:19:00 Description: 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 d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cuckoo for Each Other (awww...) Updated: 2008-01-04 04:56:00 Description: 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 wis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Terrible Babysitters Updated: 2007-12-24 17:37:00 Description: 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.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ahh, Brave New World! Updated: 2007-12-11 04:39:00 Description: 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, w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Being there Updated: 2007-12-07 04:28:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Deer Season (or not!) Updated: 2007-12-07 04:15:00 Description: 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 d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Meditation on Meditation Updated: 2007-12-01 04:09:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What's it worth to ya? Updated: 2007-11-28 04:47:00 Description: 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) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Going once, going twice, GONE Updated: 2007-11-28 04:27:00 Description: 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 Kitchensi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Down there... Updated: 2007-11-15 04:16:00 Description: 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) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pan (unexpected) Updated: 2007-11-06 16:59:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gimp My Ride Updated: 2007-10-28 02:39:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Free as a Bee! (Good Garbage) Updated: 2007-10-14 20:40:00 Description: It feels great to get home and take your work clothes off--just ask Pokey the Dog....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dainty, Ja! Updated: 2007-10-03 03:21:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bears in the Woods (GG) Updated: 2007-10-03 02:49:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "We are the world" Updated: 2007-10-03 02:28:00 Description: 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 wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD You say cicada... Updated: 2007-09-14 02:18:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mouse House stories (GG) Updated: 2007-09-03 22:55:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In the Indiana woods (GG) Updated: 2007-08-21 03:33:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Don't look at me!! (GG) Updated: 2007-08-15 03:22:00 Description: Talking with a friend about his wife's brother and his, er, unusual product....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Life or Death Updated: 2007-08-03 03:44:00 Description: 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 presenc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD L - U - C - K - Y Updated: 2007-07-28 03:23:00 Description: 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!! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mini-big bucks Updated: 2007-07-22 02:44:00 Description: While we're on the subject, here's another little tale about finding money. This one has a different outcome.... ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Big bucks... Updated: 2007-07-22 02:35:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Living the Dream (Good Garbage) Updated: 2007-07-22 01:21:00 Description: 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? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blessed by the Fame Fairies (GG) Updated: 2007-07-16 04:17:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gavi's Diner (GG) Updated: 2007-07-11 03:53:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Plugs, Nipples, Tees, Elbows (Tees Elbows) (GG) Updated: 2007-07-08 22:00:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Egg sounds (GG) Updated: 2007-06-28 02:32:00 Description: Another wistful reminiscence, this time with a side of eggs. Hurry and get dressed already....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Happy Marriage--a tiny tutorial Updated: 2007-06-25 23:47:00 Description: 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! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Installing a Faucet, part 2 of 2 Updated: 2007-06-23 15:44:00 Description: 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 no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What doesn't kill ya, makes ya stronger! (GG) Updated: 2007-06-20 14:00:00 Description: Cary, the barber, is rattled about his near-death encounter with a steak sandwich. His friends show great sympathy, as you can see!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shearin' Time (GG) Updated: 2007-06-18 15:03:00 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Time Travel Updated: 2007-06-15 03:50:00 Description: 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...." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In Search of the Americone Dream (GG) Updated: 2007-06-10 16:07:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD shameless navel-gazing (Good Garbage) Updated: 2007-06-05 03:34:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD They're OFF! (GG) Updated: 2007-05-29 03:18:00 Description: 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&...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mini Austin (GG) Updated: 2007-05-28 03:38:00 Description: 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.......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD You can't take that away from me! (GG) Updated: 2007-05-23 01:56:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Guys Talk About (GG) Updated: 2007-05-22 03:31:00 Description: 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 m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fixing PVC hose line Updated: 2007-05-16 03:51:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reflections...of EVIL! (GG) Updated: 2007-05-10 01:34:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD MY grill...Talkin' about myyy grill...(GG) Updated: 2007-05-09 04:01:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 40 years on... (3 of 3) Updated: 2007-05-03 02:02:00 Description: See notes for part 1. This one has more Duanne and less me....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 40 years on... (2 of 3) Updated: 2007-05-02 03:59:00 Description: See notes for part 1. This is another piece of our conversation in Duanne's room....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 40 years on... (1 of 3) Updated: 2007-05-02 03:43:00 Description: 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 pluck...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Party While the Bombs Fall! Updated: 2007-04-24 19:33:00 Description: Kathy's Hungarian dad talks about his wild teenage times while Budapest was under siege in December 1944. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD hail, hail (GG) Updated: 2007-04-23 22:04:00 Description: 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! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Schultz!!! (GG) Updated: 2007-04-23 02:38:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hey, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (GG) Updated: 2007-04-22 21:26:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Step Up, Kill the Pigs (GG) Updated: 2007-04-20 04:13:00 Description: Two hard-core radicals embark on a crusade to change...? kill...? Well, something, we're not sure....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dining Out: Boiled Peanut Van By The Highway (GG) Updated: 2007-04-09 23:59:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Airport Insecurity (GG) Updated: 2007-04-04 03:33:00 Description: 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 thoug...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thanksbyebye (GG) Updated: 2007-04-04 03:21:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blind? Need a car? No worries! (GG) Updated: 2007-04-02 03:11:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sheeesh! (GG) Updated: 2007-04-02 03:04:00 Description: 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.......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Washer Boogie (GG) Updated: 2007-03-08 04:15:00 Description: Okay, this one is ridiculous, but it's short. And clean. And static-free....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bumbling with a Bee (Good Garbage) Updated: 2007-03-02 01:09:00 Description: Another 'cast from a summer past...A bee encounter, with some schlepping music for accompaniment. (Can I say "schlepping" if I'm not Jewish?)...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Mighty Jicama (GG) Updated: 2007-02-23 04:10:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Installing a Faucet, part 1 of 2 Updated: 2007-02-19 04:52:00 Description: 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!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Summer Job tales (GG) Updated: 2007-02-16 17:18:00 Description: 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.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Old friends ride the bus (GG) Updated: 2007-02-13 04:17:00 Description: 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.")...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Penitentiary (GG) Updated: 2007-02-07 14:36:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sometimes ya gotta change the Bed (GG) Updated: 2007-02-04 18:28:00 Description: Kathy teaches the young people how to change a bed and muses about other bed topics. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "Within" Updated: 2007-02-04 03:52:00 Description: A melancholy short story (my first). It grew from the question, "Do our opinions have any value in the world?"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Waldorf teaching theories 2 Updated: 2007-01-31 00:52:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bad fences make good neighbors (GG) Updated: 2007-01-28 17:09:00 Description: Losing a view and a neighbor in one swoop....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wild Oats Bathroom of the Future (GG) Updated: 2007-01-28 04:12:00 Description: Just a bit of silly talk at the Wild Oats health food store, with some dire portents for the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Baptist, Korean style (GG) Updated: 2007-01-25 05:27:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD When worlds collide (GG) Updated: 2007-01-22 15:54:00 Description: 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. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Latte Learning (GG) Updated: 2007-01-22 14:24:00 Description: Forget Deal, Millionaire, and all those impostors. This is the World Cup of coffee and we're playing for all the beans....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Taste of Spring (GG) Updated: 2007-01-20 17:16:00 Description: Reminder of spring and what it means to a dog on a string who loves peas and beans ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Waldorf teaching theories 1 Updated: 2007-01-19 15:12:00 Description: 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 s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Toilet repair, part 3 (GG) Updated: 2007-01-15 21:58:00 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dripolero (GG) Updated: 2007-01-13 16:59:00 Description: You'll never hear your coffeemaker in quite the same way; I know we don't! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Phantom Phonebooth (GG) Updated: 2007-01-12 04:36:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Perfect High (GG) Updated: 2007-01-10 04:55:00 Description: A walk on a leafy fall day, with some good sounds of the neighborhood. Perfect....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD from dark to dawn birds wake up (GG) Updated: 2007-01-08 04:41:00 Description: 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?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Toilet repair, part 2 (GG) Updated: 2007-01-04 16:55:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Anthroposophy reading groups Updated: 2007-01-03 04:32:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Toilet repair, part 1 (Good Garbage) Updated: 2007-01-02 23:07:00 Description: 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....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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