John and Lynn finish out 2023 meditating on the cost of money. What people value figures into our sense of money, as does what we consider currency in the culture around us. Is money for some a signifier of power or a hedge against immortality? Or, do many desire that elusive “just enough” for a comfortable life? Our selections deal with wealth in our lives from the natural world to the risks of investing to the joys and discomforts of donating to good causes. We wish you a happy new year and hope that whatever riches you value most will visit you in 2024. In the meantime, enjoy some songs, stories, poems and patter as you tune into your Unruly self!
SONG 1: “Happy Never After” Dr. James T. “T-Bone” Kelly, from his CD Toast, Registered France, 2013
POEM 1: “Calendar” by Jack Cooper, author of Silly Lily’s Rhyming Adventures In Nature (2023) and Across My Silence, 2007, World Audience, Inc.https://sillylilysadventures.com/
FICTION: excerpt from the novel in progress, “The Surrogate,” by Lynn C. Miller, author most recently of The Lost Archive. www.lynncmiller.com.
FEED THE CAT BREAK: “Start of Snow” composed and performed by jvm
POEM 2: “Quid Pro Crow” by Sarah Kotchian, from “Light of Wings,” her new collection in press from University of New Mexico Press in 2024. https://sarahkotchian.com/
SONG 2: “My Last Twenty” by John V. Modaff, BMI
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Show theme and incidental music by John V. Modaff
The Unruly Muse is Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY
NEXT UP: Episode 34, “Forgiveness”