“Strange” can describe a different view of an everyday occurrence or a person we know well or have never met. Perspective is all. The Unruly Musers pluck out a few moments that capture aspects of the strange to share with you and hope you’ll add your own as you listen. One thing we agree upon: life would be poorer without strange encounters leavening the quotidian.
Teasers: Ernest Hemingway, C.S. Lewis, and Heraclitus
Song 1: Grand Prize written and sung by JVM with Dan Modaff on lead guitar
Poem 1: “Window Shopping in Guatemala” by Kelly Jon Yenser, whose new book of poems, Walking Uphill at Noon, 2022 from UNM Press.
Story excerpt from “The Last Usher” by Lynn C. Miller. Published in The Lost Archive, 2023, https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm
Feed the Cat Break: excerpt from Centrum Amsterdam Purples by Tbone Kelly. Druidbone Productions, registered 2013, France
Poem 2: “Autumn,” by Sue Hallgarth, published in bosque 5, www.bosquepress.com. Her series on Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, On the Rocks and Death Comes are published by Arbor Farm Press.
Song 2: Mathias Rust by JVM, Dan Modaff on mandolin and 2nd guitar
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.
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