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Tuesday May 03, 2016
Tuesday May 03, 2016
Word of the Day - Faith
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” - Max Lucado
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your hosts wrap things up and will be back with a new word in a couple of weeks.
Music Attribution
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
Sunday Apr 17, 2016
Word of the Day - Illusions
Definitions, revealing family secrets, optical illusions, small worlds, Sammy Shelor and fame,
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell
A Little Sweet...
Beth's struggles with sciatica.
Carter House in Hillsville, Virginia
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Hand dyed yarns |
Leslie is dyeing much yarn for Olde Liberty Fibre Faire, held in Goode, Virginia, on April 23.
Greenberry House is Meadows of Dan is open!
A Little Tart...
Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Leap of Faith
“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” - Richard Bach
50 Optical Illusions by Sam Taplin
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” - Mark Twain
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.” - Virginia Woolf
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” - Edith Wharton
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” - Alan W. Watts.
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” - Virginia Woolf
“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.” - Guy de Maupassant
Your hosts wrap things up and will be back with a new word in a couple of weeks.
Music Attribution
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
Sunday Apr 03, 2016
Word of the Day - Walls
A little politics, definitions, and a lot about relationships
Leading Roll, recorded by Sammy Shelor
Ally McBeal
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
A Little Sweet...
Beth took a Reynolds Homestead group to the Moss Arts Center to see the Celtic Group, Danu.
Leslie has been shearing her angora rabbits, with some difficulty.If you work with animals, get a tetanus shot!
Video by Dave Miller
Leslie has finished the feather and fan section of her hap shawl, Quill by Jared Flood from Brooklyn Tweed's Spring Thaw Collection and is starting the final knitted on border.
She has also finished the Kathleen sweater again, using a slightly modified version of the Tender Hoodie by Kristen TenDyke. Kathleen seems pleased.
Beth and her sister presented their siblings book, Stories of a West Virginia Family
The Reynolds Homestead is ready to open, thanks to the hard work of Beth and her associates and volunteers. Leslie plans to open Greenberry House on April 8, depending on how the weather behaves.
A Little Tart...
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep
“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you are. When you find out, you also realize there are places you can no longer go, things you can no longer do, words you can no longer say.”
― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe
"To Althea, From Prison" by Richard Lovelace, written in 1642
"Stone Walls" by Jim Croce
A Little Unexpected....
Toy Time Folk Toy and Science Museum
Nascar in Martinville
History Around Us, Reynolds Homestead
Your hosts wrap things up and will be back with a new word in a couple of weeks.
Music Attribution
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Friday Feb 19, 2016
Word of the Day - Touch
Discussion about touch, meanings and our experience.
Teaching touch to a hearing aid dog. The importance of the touch of a loving animal.
He Touched Me performed by Elvis Presley. Thanks, Nancy Anne Loudin!
A Little Sweet...
Leslie has finished the center section of her hap shawl, Quill by Jared Flood from Brooklyn Tweed's Spring Thaw Collection and is starting the next section. She has also started the Kathleen sweater again, using a slightly modified version of the Tender Hoodie by Kristen TenDyke. Leslie is also spinning merino to ply with her angora.
Beth has been working on postcards and talks about novelty postcards. She is on eBay as hemlockWV.
A Little Tart...
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"Touch has a memory." - John Keats
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!" - William Shakespeare
"Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours." - Vera Nazarian
"It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others - an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands...hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact." - Wallace Stegner
"Your hand touching mine. This is how galaxies collide." - Sanober Khan
A Little Unexpected...
Winter weather in Meadows of Dan.
Your hosts wrap things up and will be back with a new word in a couple of weeks.
Music Attribution
Saturday Feb 06, 2016
Saturday Feb 06, 2016
Word of the Day - Astonish, Wonder and Why
Our special guest is Kathleen.
Horsfall's Lansing Variety Store
"To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly." - Colette
"Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder." - Melina Marchetta, from Beth's morning series of Facebook posts.
"He who has a why to live for an bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Runaway, as performed by Del Shannon
I Wonder Why as performed by Dion and the Belmonts
Why me, Lord by Kris Kristofferson
A Little Sweet...
Leslie has 40 more rows to complete in the center section of her hap shawl, Quill by Jared Flood from Brooklyn Tweed's Spring Thaw Collection. She also had a mitten disaster.
Beth has been putting postcards up on eBay. Beth's user name is hemlockwv if you want to go check them out.
Kathleen finds projects challenging.
A Little Tart...
"Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease." - Kate Chopin.
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." - Socrates
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." - Rachel Carson
"Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder." - Jody Picoult
"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest wonder." - Celia Green
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| Cotton Candy Sock Yarn from Unplanned Peacock Studio |
Unplanned Peacock Studio's Tailfeather's Yarn Club.
A Little Unexpected...
Kathleen's astonishing and wonder filled vacation in Florida.
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"When a human being is born the first thing he does is crying. The rest of his life he'll spend discovering why." - Erik Tanghe
Many thanks to Kathleen for joining us! Your hosts wrap things up and will be back with a new word in a couple of weeks.
Music Attribution
Friday Jan 22, 2016
Friday Jan 22, 2016
Word of the Day - Time
Discussion about the meaning of time and some science fiction creeps in.
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Art is how we decorate Space. Music is how we decorate Time. |
(If anyone knows where this lovely phrase comes from, we would love to attribute it.)
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Danny Dunn Series by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams. Boy scientist books for children.
Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852), the daughter of Lord Byron and considered the first computer programmer. And the Sphinx.
"It seems fair to say that human history can be viewed as a sort of ongoing experiment of the effects of the interaction of time (whatever it is) and the collective human consciousness." - Lamont Wood
Time is "a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey - stuff." -Dr. Who in Blink
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune." - William Faulkner
"It has been said 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
Happy birthday to Beth's son, Taylor!
A Little Sweet...
Leslie is still working on her hap shawl, Quill by Jared Flood from Brooklyn Tweed's Spring Thaw Collection. Only 90 more rows to go in the center section.
Beth is putting together a trip to VirginiaTech, planned for March, for a group to see Danu, a Celtic band performing at the Moss Arts Center. Time returns to the conversation with the History Around Us program at the Reynolds Homestead on February 3, featuring Marvin Keene and his presentation, Patrick County Then and Now.
A Little Tart...
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fun science fiction movies and TV shows: Back to the Future, Dr. Who, Star Wars, Star Trek.
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time." - Jorge Luis Borges
"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams
"There is no wrong time to do the right thing." - Charles M. Blow
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Bill Watterson
"The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning..they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay." - Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait
A Little Unexpected...
Firefly Fare, Roanoke, Virginia Excellent food and a great place to gather with friends.
From Africa to Appalachia featuring Cheick Hamala Diabate, Sammy Shelor and Danny Knicely.
Virginia Folklife Program, with a documentary about the show.
Your hosts wind things up and head out into the snowstorm until next time!
Music Attribution
Saturday Jan 09, 2016
Saturday Jan 09, 2016
Word of the Day - Spirit
Talk about definitions of spirit, biblical references to spirit, The Holy Spirit
Warning! Knightley puts in his two cents by barking at around 9 minutes into the session
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The Shack by William P. Young A Little Sweet...
Beth is bringing in the New Year at the Reynolds Homestead with lots of events planned, including a youth art show in March and April. A Little Tart...
Spiritualism The Greenberry House Ghost Quotes: “Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez“I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.” - Anne Lamott“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.” - Hermann HesseA Little Unexpected... A visit to Galax, Virginia. Twisted Fork on Oldtown Street
Chestnut Creek School of the Arts
WHEO radio in Stuart, Virginia. Your hosts wind things up and chose the word of the day for next time. Music Attribution |
Sunday Dec 27, 2015
Sunday Dec 27, 2015
Word of the Day - Celebrate
Why Leslie thinks it is silly to be offended when someone wishes you a happy holiday.
"Breaking Up Christmas" - An Appalachian tradition
Old Christmas
Appalachian Christmas Folklore
Christmas
When Americans didn't celebrate Christmas
Hanukkah
Kwanzaa
Boxing Day
Yule
Yaida and Mithril
Dōngzhi Festival
A Little Sweet...
Leslie is working on Quill by Jared Flood from Brooklyn Tweed's Spring Thaw Collection
Hap Shawl history
A Little Tart...
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Stories of a West Virginia Family |
A celebration of family and childhood in the 50s and 60s in West Virginia.
Quotes:
“When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do the same.” - Angie Karan Krezos
“The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with thankfulness, instead of trying to cling on and wish that things were different. I believe that you should let them go in peace with love, not try to hang on to their spirits, just hold the precious moments gently in your heart.” - Jay Woodman
A Little Unexpected...
A profound joke and a special Christmas letter.
Your hosts wind things up and Beth gets put on the spot for the word of the day for next time.
Music Attribution
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Sunday Dec 13, 2015
Word of the Day - Fear
The Tragedy of Pearl Harbor, discussion about types of fear, experiences of fear (Beth had several) and phobias.
A Little Sweet...
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| Leslie has been making fingerless mits and hats! |
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| Stories of a West Virginia Family by the Almonds |
A Little Tart...
We revisit the book discussed in the last episode, Zealot by Reza Aslan.
Quotes:
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope
A Little Unexpected...
"Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt
“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” - Woody Allen
“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is really fear.” - Gandhi
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” - John Lennon
Music Attribution
Friday Nov 20, 2015
Friday Nov 20, 2015
Word of the Day - Zealot
Word suggested by listener Nancy Anne Loudin - thank you!
Much discussion and some disagreement about the meaning of zealot, with some history of the early Jewish Zealots in the first century. Bible quotes from Beth on zeal - Romans 10:1-2 and Proverbs 19:2.
A Little Sweet...
Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair, Reynolds Homestead, Critz, Virginia, November 21
Reynolds Homestead Volunteer Trip
Joshua Cox Home near Westfield, North Carolina
Korner's Folly, Kernersville, North Carolina
Victorian Christmas and Open House, 1st Sunday in December, at Reynolds Homestead
A Little Tart...
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| Zealot, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth |
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| The Sound of Glass by Karen White |