The Unruly duo navigates the shoals of memory, occasionally running aground on forgetting and denial. Our memories make us human, allowing us to build on experience and relationship. Do memories or lack of them protect us, nurture us, or comfort us? Is denial a gatekeeper that allows us wall off disturbing events in a volatile world? “I remember” has a power all its own.
Teaser: Quotes from Louise Glück and Milan Kundera
Song 1: “Two Trains” by written and performed by John V. Modaff and Good Enough from the CD More Than A Line(2018)
Poem 1: “All That Is Made” by Sarah Kotchian, published in ABQ inPrint #6, fall, 2022. www.bosquepress.com. Her new book, Light of Wings, will come out in 2024.
Short story, “Remember?” by Lynn C. Miller. Her new collection of stories, The Lost Archive, will come in 2023. www.lynncmiller.com
Feed the Cat Break: “Park Bench,” recollections of a certain bench at water’s edge on a warm day of rain by JVM.
Poem 2: “There’s Another Story I tell Myself So I Won’t Forget,” by Julie Williams from her novel-in-poems Escaping Tornado Season, Harper, 2004.
Song 2: “The Wounded,” written and sung by T. Bone Kelly, second verse drawn from “The Wound” by the warrior poet Dermot O’Neill.
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Show theme and Incidental music by John V. Modaff.
Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY. Produced at The Creek Studio, Morehead.
NEXT UP: Episode 21, “Youth and Age”