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Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars

 
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Paris on the Potomac: If I had a billion dollars
If I had a billion dollars, and the hospitals were closed, and I saw the Rough Beast of the Second Coming.....
 
That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees—Those dying generations—at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress,Nor is there singing school but studyingMonuments of its own magnificence;And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fireAs in the gold mosaic of a wall,Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,And be the singing-masters of my soul.Consume my heart away; sick with desireAnd fastened to a dying animalIt knows not what it is; and gather meInto the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths makeOf hammered gold and gold enamellingTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;Or set upon a golden bough to singTo lords and ladies of ByzantiumOf what is past, or passing, or to come.
This poem is in the public domain.
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
Karen and John : What did Jesus do after the Inns were closed at his birth? What will 'able-bodied' men do when rural WV hospitals close from defunding Medicaid, responsible for over half the births in this state?
This Episode Recorded May 16, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Is it Too Late to Stop Now?
Does Trump Want to Bring Back Dixie as the National Anthem?
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:30 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
James and John and Mike on a search for meaning: Women's professional sports?
This Episode Recorded May 12, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.

 
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Paris on the Potomac: Turn Off Your TV -- The Data Center is Feeding.
A First Degree Ripoff of Jefferson County may be underway.
 
 
Broadcast LIVE Fridays, 7:30 AM Eastern on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Karen Valentine, John Case
 
Special Guest: Lucia Valentine
Lucia Valentine, a strong candidate for Delegate in Jefferson and Berkeley counties, and staff lobbyist for the West Virginia Environmental Council joins Karen and John to discuss the recent Legislative session, with emphasis on the multi-billion dollar data center investments being made in the Eastern Panhandle -- but what do the people of the Eastern Panhandle get from it?
This Episode Recorded Friday, May 9, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935

 
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Labor Beat Radio: Back to 1935
The Return of "John L Lewis" is Imminent
 
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Tuesdays at 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, JB Christensen, Scott Marshall
Description: JB John and Scott underscore the destruction of legal unionism by Trump and DOGE.
This Episode Recorded May 13, 2025 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Raven and Coyote

 
 
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Is Coyote at Your Door?
 
 
Janet has found a marvelous selections of poems on "The Trickster" -- an active character in Native American mythologies. Sometimes as a Raven. Sometimes as Coyote. Carolyn Dunn, Ben Stickle, Peter Blue Cloud, and Charles DeLint contribute.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded May 14, 2025
Coyote, Coyote
by Peter Blue Cloud
 
Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me What is a shaman? A shaman I don’t know anything about. I’m a doctor, myself. When I use medicine, it’s between me, my patient, and the Creation. Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me What is power? It is said that power is the ability to start your chainsaw with one pull. Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me What is magic? Magic is the first taste of ripe strawberries and magic is a child dancing in a summer’s rain. Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me Why is Creation? Creation is because I went to sleep last night with a full stomach, and when I woke up this morning, everything was here. Coyote, Coyote, Please tell me Who you belong to? According to the latest survey, there are certain persons who, in poetic or scholarly guise, have claimed me like a conqueror’s prize. Let me just say once and for all, just to be done: Coyote, he belongs to none.
 
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The Poetry Show: Baucis and Philamon: Radical Hospitality

 
 
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Because they did not need the Gods, the Gods were there
 
 
The myths of hospitality as a bridge between Heaven and Earth
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Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded May 7, 2025
Radical Hospitality
by Rumi
 
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. [S]he may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: May 12: Stories Children Tell

The Poetry Show: Opheus and Eurydice

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Lost Love and the Birth of Poetry
 
 
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a tragic tale about a musician, Orpheus, who journeys to the underworld to bring back his wife, Eurydice. Eurydice dies shortly after their wedding from snakebite. Orpheus, heartbroken, uses his music to persuade Hades, the god of the underworld, to allow her return. It does not work out.
Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded April 30, 2025
The Makers
by Howard Nemorov
 
Who can remember back to the first poets, The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus? No one has remembered that far back Or now considers, among the artifacts And bones and cantilevered inference The past is made of, those first and greatest poets, So lofty and disdainful of renown They left us not a name to know them by. They were the ones that in whatever tongue Worded the world, that were the first to say Star, water, stone, that said the visible And made it bring invisibles to view In wind and time and change, and in the mind Itself that minded the hitherto idiot world And spoke the speechless world and sang the towers Of the city into the astonished sky. They were the first great listeners, attuned To interval, relationhsip, and scale, The first to say above, beneath, beyond, Conjurors with love, death, sleep, with bread and wine, Who having uttered vanished from the world Leaving no memory but the marvelous Magical elements, the breathing shapes And stops of breath we build our Babels of.
 
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