The Disputatious Pines

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]

The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Attending to John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman. Some fine, and pertinent writing to discuss here. You are invited to attend.

rla on February 14th, 2022

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]

rla on January 31st, 2022

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)

rla on January 17th, 2022

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]

rla on January 3rd, 2022
Neither past nor future

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]

rla on December 20th, 2021

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]

rla on November 22nd, 2021
RLA at the mic
RLA at the mic

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]

rla on November 8th, 2021

What have we lost? What are we losing? And more importantly, what are we finding in our loss? We attend to Rumi and Thoreau and RLA about these questions. You are invited to attend.

[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]