Journey through the Seasons
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Here is the Evening under Lamplight show that went out on Cambridge 105, Cambridge Community Radio, on Sunday, 5 September 2010. It celebrates the season of Hairst, or Harvest, a time of peaceful abundance, following our anxiety about whether we’ll have enough or whether we’ll even make it to the end of our Journey. The show features
- the Harvest meditation from RLA’s CD Journey through the Seasons: Meditations on the Five Chinese Healing Energies
- music from the Kinks and Dylan, of course, and also Nick Drake, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Manfred Mann, Leonard Cohen, The Band and King’s College Chapel Choir
- readings from RLS, the psalmist, Walt Whitman and Wendell Berry.
You are invited to attend and share this abundant harvest.
Face To Face Kinks, “There’s Too Much on My Mind”
Song of Myself (Dover Thrift Editions)
What Are People For? (Wendell Berry)
Pink Moon Nick Drake, “Harvest Breed”
Porgy and Bess: Introduction – Act II Scene 1: I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ (Porgy, Chorus)
Stage Fright The Band, “Sleeping”
Biograph Dylan, “Quinn the Eskimo”
The Story Manfred Mann, “The Mighty Quinn”
Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen, “Land of Plenty”
I waited to listen to this until Autumn set in for me, RL, athe sadness of the clear end of summer. It came today, belatedly. Hairst was, indeed, uplifting. At first I thought it was you singing when Nick Drake began and wondered if you’d been hiding another ‘voice’ from us! I’d not heard him before… will search him out.
Lovely, as usual. We are in ‘Herbst’ here in Germany, and the colors of the leaves are a real wonder for myself and Jacob, who is five now. His kindergarten teacher had us make a collage to bring back to school – and what a nice experience that was, collecting tiny mementos of the season. It’s hard to find free hours to sit and listen to anything lately, but it’s always rewarding when I take time to “attend to” your show. Thanks again, RLA.