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Involving an evening walk, the two kinds of Qualms, family aliases and the value of fashion even in total darkness.
A Walk in the Dark
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A Very Mild Solution
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Radio address for October 8, 2008, involving overheard radio snippets, a spot of philosophy, and Snoo’s newfound athleticism.
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A Feast in the Woods
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Radio address for October 14, 2008, involving primarily Leaves and Squirrels.
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Clear His Table of Its Clutter
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Radio address for October 21, 2008, on the number 23, building a house, and some lines from an old biography.
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Snowing at the Mast
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Regarding emotions-as-colors, and the coming of snow, and all that that implies. Relish the risk.
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The Smoke Makes You Think You're Alone
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Radio address for November 2, 2008. I opened Pandora’s box the week before all these ghastly holidays, and let out a swarm of dark visions.
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An Older Flavour, Preserved in Isolation
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Radio address for November 12, 2008, involving Thermoclines, the Odd Days, and working in the dirt and the dark.
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Intermission to Follow
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Radio address for November 20, 2008, which I saved out of the wastebasket and the cutting floor.
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Happy Thanksgiving
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Radio address for Thanksgiving Day, 2008. The bulk of today’s address comes from Charles Laughton – a part of a 1960s recording that MPR broadcasts every year on Thanksgiving.
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We'll Dance And We'll Sing Love
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In which ever-rarer and older Christmas songs are sampled like fine cheeses.
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The Month after Midnight
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An impression of January that is fine, lasting, and hard to convey; some poetry; and a small dose of tired but devoted thought.
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The Bee-Loud Glade
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Radio address for Feb 11, 2009. Some kinds of honey are a little too authentic, even for me.
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A Kind of Runic Rhythm
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Hammer-swinging and lumber-fumbling are happily put on hold due to fresh snow. I form a new exclusive association based on a silly battle cry. Notion-planting is examined, and ending notes are struck on a bell, the moon, and a star.
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A Hand Up on Deck
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How far apart we are when we start; how good it really is to come on board!
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The Voice of the Bard
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Some things are hidden from your senses until you say “yes.”
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Thinking in Ribbons and Smudges
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Radio address for February 17, 2010, guest-starring my Smith-Corona Super Sterling (not, as it might sound, a gun, but a typewriter). The excerpt at the end is from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Book I, ch. XV.
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The Tape of Nature's Anomalies
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Radio address for March 27, 2010: a weather report of sorts. Nature always skips skips skips the beat.
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We Will Haunt and Hunt Our Own Creations
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When we write the story, we sit in the seat of God, and our understanding of God betrays itself too well.
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The Exceptional Causes of My Absence
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Written mainly so listeners will have a dim idea of what keeps me away in town these days.
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Orange Chocolate
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The words ‘orange chocolate’ conjure a mottled, raggled raft of feelings – feelings about things that ought to be simple but ended up being, for a long time, gnarly.
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