Howell Creek Radio

Download MP3 audio – 7:37, 10.93 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for May 12, 2012, about our Original Garden, which doesn’t look like very much compared to the way we imagined it. Tie-ins to Mother’s Day are subtle, if even at all extant.

Download MP3 audio – 5:46, 8.39 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 28, 2012, dictated verbatim from the spring wind and rain on the North Shore.

Download MP3 audio – 13:41, 19.26 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 21, 2012, in which our quiet, straightforward life keeps me humble by being too much to keep up with, and I hope it will always be that way.

Download MP3 audio – 6:28, 9.36 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 14, 2012: A reading from the first two headings of my Red Book, about Existence and Inexistence, the first two stops on a journey of exactly one thousand steps.

Download MP3 audio – 8:33, 12.22 MB – or Read Transcript Trixie and I make plans to fly or drive all over the continent in every direction, and groundwork for the suburban apiary is contemplated.

Download MP3 audio – 11:10, 15.50 MB – or Read Transcript City hall springs to life in a flurry of self-cancelling paperwork, and we listen to the north shore of Lake Superior call us while we brew tea on the porch.

Download MP3 audio – 6:50, 9.54 MB – or Read Transcript After the sudden and early thaw, thoughts turn to yard maintenance which does not necessarily include scouring away every trace of unnatural untidiness.

Download MP3 audio – 10:02, 13.95 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Feb 21, 2012, which you will have to listen to for yourself.

Download MP3 audio – 8:41, 12.10 MB – or Read Transcript An afternoon spent in the basement, a morning spent in the Basilica.

Download MP3 audio – 15:01, 20.77 MB – or Read Transcript Why were the Dark Ages called the Dark Ages? It probably wasn’t because of ignorance, for ignorance persists; much more likely, they were dark because of Sudden Isolation.

Download MP3 audio – 7:15, 10.12 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 6: Maybe if you’re denied a pile of money, you’re better able to think outside the box and focus on what matters. But who wants to be denied a pile of money. I ask you.

Download MP3 audio – 14:59, 20.65 MB Radio address for February 18, 2011: some things not many people seem to know about Niagara Falls.

Download MP3 audio – 12:15, 16.86 MB – or Read Transcript What if I am among those that winter separates unto Pluto rather than to Jupiter this year? The summons was to the clearing at midnight, and I had always dreaded it.

Download MP3 audio – 4:52, 6.73 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 8, 2010, a poem I wrote this last Sunday.

Download MP3 audio – 6:04, 8.43 MB Radio address for December 1, 2010. It is extremely cold and snowy here now. These are just a few glimpses of surviving and micro-thriving in the middle of winter.

Download MP3 audio – 4:44, 6.67 MB Radio address for October 14, 2010, released a few days late. Have you ever been pathetically but persistently pursued?

Download MP3 audio – 11:59, 16.62 MB – or Read Transcript The words ‘orange chocolate’ conjure a mottled, raggled raft of feelings – feelings about things that ought to be simple but ended up being, for a long time, gnarly.

Download MP3 audio – 7:27, 10.40 MB Written mainly so listeners will have a dim idea of what keeps me away in town these days.

Download MP3 audio – 14:38, 20.26 MB – or Read Transcript When we write the story, we sit in the seat of God, and our understanding of God betrays itself too well.

Download MP3 audio – 6:00, 8.41 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for March 27, 2010: a weather report of sorts. Nature always skips skips skips the beat.