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]
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.
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We attend to a series of songs around the theme of Missed Connections. You are invited to attend. (First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)
We attend to Alan Watts’s remark, “When you dance, you don’t dance to get somewhere.” This leads us around the dance floor, until we dance to the end of love, and express thanks for the dance. You are invited to attend – and to dance along with us.
[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
From the Archives, a show attending to the Autumnal Equinox and its notorious stormy winds, plus Walt Whitman reaching out to the outcasts, and a final reaching out in atonement. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We begin Series 7, which will attend to moments from Ovid’s great compilation of myths, the Metamorphoses. First we see the metamorphosis, or transformation, of primeval Chaos into the world as we now know it. But then comes evil, specifically in the form of the impious Lycaon. You are invited to attend.
[First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
We attend to several Outrageous Voices, speaking about walking without conscious intention, Gooch’s Paradox (“things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to be seen”), the mediaeval habit of using other means than sense perception to authenticate reality, putting on an act in order to be yourself, advancing not by being sober, responsible, and cautious, but playful, rebellious, and immature, Tom Graves’s Nasruddin’s Law (“If something can go right, it probably will – if you let it – and usually in the most unexpected way”), and finally the attitude of contrariness, with Wendell Berry. You are invited to attend.
[As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]
