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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: May 15: Spontaneous storytelling

The Poetry Show Podcast: Kindness and Happiness

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Poems of Kindness & Happiness
Broadcast LIVE Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 7 AM
 
Happiness
Jane Kenyon
There’s just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away.
 
And how can you not forgive?
You make a feast in honor of what
was lost, and take from its place the finest
garment, which you saved for an occasion
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day
to know that you were not abandoned,
that happiness saved its most extreme form
for you alone.
 
No, happiness is the uncle you never
knew about, who flies a single-engine plane
onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes
into town, and inquires at every door
until he finds you asleep midafternoon
as you so often are during the unmerciful
hours of your despair.
 
It comes to the monk in his cell.
It comes to the woman sweeping the street
with a birch broom, to the child
whose mother has passed out from drink.
It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing
a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker,
and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots
in the night.
                     It even comes to the boulder
in the perpetual shade of pine barrens,
to rain falling on the open sea,
to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.
 
Jane Kenyon, “Happiness” from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. 
 
Kindness
 
Naomi Shihab Nye
 
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth.What you held in your hand,what you counted and carefully saved,all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness.How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop,the passengers eating maize and chickenwill stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindnessyou must travel where the Indian in a white poncholies dead by the side of the road.You must see how this could be you,how he too was someonewho journeyed through the night with plansand the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.You must wake up with sorrow.You must speak to it till your voicecatches the thread of all sorrowsand you see the size of the cloth.Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,only kindness that ties your shoesand sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayIt is I you have been looking for,and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.
From Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. 
 
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The Sports Attack -- Michael Aronin

Enlighten Radio Presents:
 
The Sports Attack Podcast: with Special Guest Michael Aronin
Mike Diesel counts the balls and strikes,
and shares a lifetime in comedy with Michael Aronin
recorded LIVE May 8, 2023
The Sports Attack broadcasts LIVE Mondays at 7 AM Eastern
 
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Winners and Losers Podcast: Spirits of Shepherdstown

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The Winners and Losers Program:
Spirits of Shepherdstown: Pastor Karen Erskine Valentine
The Good Samaritan
 
 
Hosts: Karen Valentine and John Case
 
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The Recovery Podcast: Recovery from Violence

Enlighten Radio Presents
Recovery from Violence
The Recovery Radio Podcast: MAY 11, 2023
 
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The Poetry Show: Murder Most Foul, Mother Ireland

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The  Poetry Show Podcast
Broadcast Live, May 25, 2023
Host: John Case
Part 1: Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan
 
Part 2: Mother Ireland, Eavan Boland
 
 
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Labor Beat Radio: A Scott and John Show

Enlighten Radio Presents:
The Labor Beat Podcast,
recorded LIVE, May 23, 2023
Hosts: John Case and Scott Marshall
 
The Strike Mood in the US
The financial crisis and public or coop banks
Good and Welfare: Factories and View Sheds
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The Winners and Losers Podcast: The Cinque Te Maio Show

 
Enlighten Radio Presents
The Winners and Losers Radio Broadcast
from Shepherdstown, West Virginia
May 5, 2023
with Karen Valentine and John Case
 
It is the 5th of May, and this IS Cinque Te Maio, but the show is more
about Rainbow Crows, Growing up with racism,
Pondering (or Ponderous?) Joe Manchin,
Wondering about "independence" -- From What Exactly?
 
The WNL Program broadcasts LIVE, 700 AM Eastern
on
www.enlightenradio.org
 
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