Episode Summary The Unrulies progress in no uncertain terms (!) through the doubtful zone, that pause between yes and no, the moment before agreement or disapproval settles. Doubt is a necessary state of weighing the odds, figuring out the costs or benefits, jumping across the crack or stepping on it. Can we even get to certitude without passing through doubt? Do some people get stuck in the neverland of doubt? We explore the terrain freely through our music and poems and fiction. Will you enjoy it? We have no doubt.
Song 1: “I’m Not Your Maybe” (Daniel P. Modaff, performed with GOOD ENOUGH from the album Saturday’s Child)
Poem 1: “Conditional Love Story” by Barbara Rockman, author of the poetry collections To Cleave and Sting and Nest. Barbara is a poet and teacher whose homebase is Santa Fe.
Fiction: Excerpt from “The Surrogate,” a novel in process by Lynn C. Miller, whose latest book is The Lost Archive: stories, https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm
Feed the Cat Break: “Counting Down the Raindrops” (Andrew Preston and A.P. Harbor)
Poem 2: “The Impossibility of Stasis," by Hilda Raz whose New and Collected Poems, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been, came out from University of Nebraska Press.
Song 2: “I Doubt It” (John V. Modaff)
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Theme and Incidental Music by John V. Modaff, BMI
Recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY
Produced at The Creek Studio
NEXT UP on Episode 42: “Unruly Thoughts”