Beginnings and Endings
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Lunar Datebook episode 103 looks at beginnings and endings. Host Jennifer Ellsworth shares about her two first kisses, and reminisces about her days farming.
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Waldo County Smackdown! Jello Wrestling! Belfast vs. Interior Waldo County! The Movie!
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You are invited to watch the film of the event. Jamie "The Talons" Edwards takes on Jenny "Coydog" Tibbetts in this colorful battle for small town supremacy....
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A Love Letter to Chase's Daily
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth is leaving Chase's Daily and Chase Farm, but before she goes she offers these lessons.
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Moving Blood and "Obedience"
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Moving blood. This is the clinical definition of life as we know it—a beating heart, circulating oxygen rich blood through the body. It is also the evolutionary end game. Reproduction. Moving our bloodline forward. And a metaphor for inheritance. These themes converge in this season's episode. Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews dancer Shana Bloomstein, founder of Women's Works, about a piece she created with her daughter. And we read a short story about a gift passed down, called “Obedience.”
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Eddie Wonders Why—Act 2
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Act 2 of A Lunar Datebook Production's "Eddie Wonders Why," a radio play based on Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" where the ancient king becomes a modern mafia lord.
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Eddie Wonders Why—Act 1
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth reimagines the Sophocles' classic "Oedipus Rex" as a modern mafia drama "Eddie Wonders Why." Today's episode features Act 1 of this summer's Lunar Datebook production.
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Old School: interviews with Don Schultz and Danny Lobo
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews former Mount View High School history teacher Don Schultz and Middle School Spanish teacher Danny Lobo for their thoughts on public education as she prepares to send her oldest son to kindergarten.
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Gemini Lessons and "Amen"
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Lessons learned from the twins Castor and Pollux that make up the Gemini constellation. Also how to survive as a stage-whore-homebody, and a short story about escaping an abusive childhood.
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Spring Soapbox: Star Wars Philosophy and Instant Karma
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Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores the intersection between religion, science, and Star Wars. May the Force be with you....
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High Flight: Remembering Grandpa
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Lunar Datebook departs from its usual format to honor WWII pilot and POW, Roland E. Stumpff: host Jennifer Ellsworth's grandfather. She uses John Gillespie Magee Jr.'s famous poem "High Flight" as a guide to this man's extraordinary life.
info_outlineEpisode 93—January 16, 2018
The upcoming Super Blue Blood Moon on January 31, 2018 sounds amazing, but what does it mean? Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores the astrological significance of a Leo moon in opposition to an Aquarian sun. She also reads an essay about the challenges of disciplining children, and explains a Mother Goose nursery rhyme in "The Lion and the Unicorn Parable."
"...Once upon a time, all the people in the world were warring with each other, distrustful, and greedy. The Lion got sick of it. He came out of the forest and roared, “Enough! I am King now.” Then he went old school, demanded balance, and enforced the law that said “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” He always took those eyes and teeth himself, never going further, it wasn’t a tooth for a tooth and the tip of your finger; but if you’ve ever had a lion at your door, you will appreciate the incentive that provides to avoid one there again..."
Moon Astrology: New Hunger Moon in Capricorn: Tame as verb.
Tarot card 8, a fire-breathing dragon simmers down, and no one mourns the king.