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The Poetry Show: Ordinary Saints

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
"To Labor, and Not Seek Reward"
 
 
Janet introduces poems of Sainthood: The patron saints of Boredom, Sparrows, and Poetic Words have their special place. St Francis blesses the Sow.
Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 12/04/2024
Ordinary Saints
by Malcolm Guite
The ordinary saints, the ones we know, Our too-familiar family and friends, When shall we see them? Who can truly show Whilst still rough-hewn, the God who shapes our ends? Who will unveil the presence, glimpse the gold That is and always was our common ground, Stretch out a finger, feel, along the fold To find the flaw, to touch and search that wound From which the light we never noticed fell Into our lives? Remember how we turned To look at them, and they looked back? That full- -eyed love unselved us, and we turned around, Unready for the wrench and reach of grace. But one day we will see them face to face.
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: December 2: Celebrations

The Last Stop Cafe: Baseball, Swordplay -- anything but news!

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Last Stop Cafe: Baseball, Swordplay
-- anything but news! --
"At the Plate -- Your Turn to Shine. In the Field -- Part of the TEAM!"
 
Broadcasts LIVE, Mondays, 7:15 AM Eastern
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini, John Case, James Boyd
Mike, James and John use Sports to Baby Talk hopes and fears for America
This Episode Recorded Dec 2, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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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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