We attend to crabby old people criticising the young, the young rebelling against crabbed age, age not crabby reaching out to youth in one way or another, being rejected, accepted and, in the end “because of a few songs, wherein I spoke of their mystery, women have been exceptionally kind to my old agee”. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
Light verse and wry fable by Robert Louis Stevenson, from the newly published book Aesop in the Fog (see https://www.thelamplightpress.com/aesop), and assorted songs on yellow and various true and false healings. [First heard (a little abridged) on Cambridge 105 Radio]
Attending to John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman. Some fine, and pertinent writing to discuss here. You are invited to attend.
With Emily Dickinson and others we attend to some voices tasting paradise, or longing to, or maybe letting heaven wait for a bit. You are invited to attend. [First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
From the Archives, attending to Rapunzel, which is more than just a prince climbing up on the girl’s very long hair to get into her tower. Come along and see this story of a girl’s transformation from adolescence into womanhood. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)
At a time of the Full Moon, we attend to some aspects of the moon, in drama, mythic, story. Music from the Marvelettes (in memory of Wanda Young), the Beatles, the Kinks, Van Morrison, Emma Chapourian, and more. You are invited to attend. [First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
To begin a new year, we pull out of the archives this show attending to Thresholds, both seasonal and mythical. You are invited to attend. [As heard first on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We attend to Winter Hope, or hope in a dark time – dark in its many senses. We may be dark, but we need not despair. With help from Edwin Muir, Gregorian Chant, Journey through the Seasons, Langston Hughes with Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Rumi, Leonard Cohen. You are invited to attend.
First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio
To get a larger perspective on the crises of our time, we attend to earlier alarms about the dire present and frightening future, but conclude with a little example of “free servitude” that helps us begin afresh. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We celebrate the 250th Evening under Lamplight show, with a party triptych and then bring back Thoreau for some helpful observations about raising ourselves to higher planes, in touch with our “genius”, and then a final Hallelujah. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
