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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: November 25: Ring the Bell

The Last Stop Cafe: Break Bread, not Heads

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: Break Bread, not Heads
The Grateful Dead return to win the Super Bowl. I wish.
 
 
Mondays, 7:15 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case and James Boyd
The thanksgiving show is a toxic blend of failure, loss, frustration, missed opportunities, and miscalculations. Very funny, at moments.
This Episode Recorded November 25, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Poems of Gratitude

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Poetry of The Difficult Moment, Pt 2 -- Thanksgiving on the road to heaven, or hell?
 
 
Janet explores poems of gratitude. Classics from Pablo Neruda, E. E. Cummings, and Mary Oliver. Jane Hirshfield and Dana Gioia join in.
Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Nov. 20, 2024
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Thanks for Remembering Us
by Dana Gioia
The flowers sent here by mistake, signed with a name that no one knew, are turning bad. What shall we do? Our neighbor says they're not for her, and no one has a birthday near. We should thank someone for the blunder. Is one of us having an affair? At first we laugh, and then we wonder. The iris was the first to die, enshrouded in its sickly-sweet and lingering perfume. The roses fell one petal at a time, and now the ferns are turning dry. The room smells like a funeral, but there they sit, too much at home, accusing us of some small crime, like love forgotten, and we can't throw out a gift we've never owned.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: November 18: Behind the legends

The Poetry Show: Like a Fly With One Wing, Walking

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
The Poetry of The Difficult Moment
 
 
"When you don't know which way to go. Your real journey has just begun." -- Wendell Berry. Keats, Jane Kenyon, Dean Young, Christian Wiman, and more
Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Nov. 20, 2024
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
by Jane Kenyon
I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years. . . .
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....
When the young girl who starves sits down to a table she will sit beside me. . . .
I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . .
I am water rushing to the wellhead, filling the pitcher until it spills. . . .
I am the patient gardener of the dry and weedy garden. . . .
I am the stone step, the latch, and the working hinge. . . .
I am the heart contracted by joy. . . .
the longest hair, white before the rest. . . .
I am there in the basket of fruit presented to the widow. . . .
I am the musk rose opening unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . .
I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name. . . .
 
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: Commanders lose, no news

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
Mike Tyson Still Stands
Commanders Change Name To:
 
 
Mondays 7:15 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case
Sports today: Reckoning Tomorrow
This Episode Recorded Nov. 18, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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The Poetry Show: Veterans Day poems

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Poetry from the Foxholes: Flying Crooked
 
 
Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Marvin Bell, Brian Turner, Amelia Opie, and more ... from Europe, Vietnam, Ukraine, Gaza and Mississipppi
Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded November 13, 2024
Veterans of the Seventies
by Melvin Bell
 
His army jacket bore the white rectangle of one who has torn off his name. He sat mute at the round table where the trip-wire veterans ate breakfast. They were foxhole buddies who went stateside without leaving the war. They had the look of men who held their breath and now their tongues. What is to say beyond that said by the fathers who bent lower and lower as the war went on, spines curving toward the ground on which sons sat sandbagged with ammo belts enough to make fine lace of enemy flesh and blood. Now these who survived, who got back in cargo planes emptied at the front, lived hiddenly in the woods behind fence wires strung through tin cans. Better an alarm than the constant nightmare of something moving on its belly to make your skin crawl with the sensory memory of foxhole living.
 
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The Poetry Show: Doctors of Verse

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
You and the Doc: Till Death Do Us Part
 
 
What the physician saw in me. What the Lobsterman saw in the sea.
Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Nov 7, 2024
 
A Lobsterman Looks At The Sea
by Richard Berlin
His new hip healed in, we're working on a bluff, talking doctors and health care reform as we shove a new propane tank into place. A shape on the surface catches his eye: "Right whale," he says, but I can only see endless swells rolling in from the east. He points out the gradations of gray and green that mark deep ledge, the tide's shape along the islands and rocks, the whale's glistening back suddenly in focus. I react with the same surprise my patients feel when I observe what they can't see— a sudden shift in gaze, or a crease in a cheek, understanding how a doctor becomes like a man who has spent sixty years on a lobster boat, watching the world swim fast and shining, right before his eyes.
 
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