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Show #1086 More Good Music 01. Dennis Spencer - Cheap Entertainment (4:00) (Bluesman From Jupiter, self-release, 2024) 02. Piney Woods - You Got Me Where You Want Me (2:34) (The Piney Woods Record, self-release, 2024) 03. Heavydrunk & Watermelon Slim - Little Bighorn (3:26) (Bluesland Theme Park, Heavydrunk Records, 2025) 04. Jennifer Porter - Stop Your Talkin' (4:12) (Sun Come And Shine Redux, Overton Music, 2025) 05. Steve Howell & the Mighty Men - One Mint Julep (2:38) (Yeah Man, Out Of The Past Music, 2025) 06. Sunny Bleau & the Moons - S-H-E-E-E W-O-M-A-N (5:21) (Passion & Regrets, Endless Blues Records, 2025) 07. Mark Muleman Massey - She's Married To The Streets (3:28) (Been A Long Long Time, MuleTone Records, 2025) 08. Giles Robson & John Primer - Let Me Explain (2:43) (Ten Chicago Blues Classics, self-release, 2024) 09. Ed Alstrom - Fruitcake (4:00) (Flee Though None Pursue, Haywire Records, 2025) 10. Ollee Owens - Solid Ground (2:47) (Nowhere To Hide, Ollee Owens Music, 2024) 11. Hitman Blues Band - Back To The Blues (3:22) (Calling Long Distance, Nerus Records, 2024) 12. Robbert Duijf - First Train Out (3:30) (Silver Spoon, Naked Productions, 2025) 13. Reckoners - Woman's Woman (3:34) (Reckoners, Vintage League Music/Uptown Sound, 2024) 14. Greg Nagy - Never Mine (2:48) (The Real You, self-release, 2024) 15. Carly Harvey - Worth Waiting For (2:55) (Kamama, self-release, 2024) 16. The Band - Chest Fever (5:15) (Music From Big Pink, Capitol Records, 1968) 17. Dinah Washington (with Eddie Chamblee Orchestra) - Trouble In Mind (2:26) (45 RPM Single, Mercury Records, 1952) 18. Thelma La Vizzo - Trouble In Mind (3:01) (78 RPM Shellac, Paramount Records, 1924) 19. Bertha "Chippie" Hill - Trouble In Mind (2:51) (78 RPM Shellac, Okeh Records, 1926) 20. Georgia White - Trouble In Mind (2:35) (78 RPM Shellac, Decca Records, 1936) 21. Richard M. Jones - Trouble In Mind (2:40) (78 RPM Shellac, Bluebird Records, 1936) 22. Nina Simone - Trouble in Mind (2:45) (Pastel Blues, Philips Records, 1965) 23. Big Bill Broonzy - Trouble In Mind [1957] (2:36) (Black Brown And White, Mercury Records, 1991) 24. Two Men From Earth - Trouble In Mind (3:30) (Walkin' To New Orleans, self-release, 2009) 25. Misses Satchmo - Trouble In Mind (2:35) (The Sun Will Shine, Disques Bros Records, 2011) 26. Mose Allison - Trouble In Mind (3:15) (Local Color, Prestige Records, 1958) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

In this episode, Jenny interviews Ellen Frost of Local Color Flowers (http://www.locoflo.com/) as they discuss tips, relationship-building advice, and challenges when it comes to buying local flowers and selling to florists. There is no doubt that the farmer-florist relationship can be challenging at times, but it can also be an incredibly rewarding experience for both if approached correctly. If you sell to florists, or buy local flowers - you're gonna want to hear this episode. Did you enjoy this podcast? Please leave us a review on apple or spotify! Episode Summary: https://www.trademarkfarmer.com/all-podcast-episodes/ellen-frost-of-local-color-flowers Follow Jenny on instagram: @trademarkfarmer Take a free flower farm business course: www.trademarkfarmer.com Ellen Frost at LoCoFlo: ​​http://www.locoflo.com/

On today's show, a pilot training center in Fort Smith is marking another milestone. Also, with autumn's arrival comes the need for vaccinations. Plus, we also get a start on a weekend of books,music and comedy with April Wallace from the "Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette."

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Host Jason V. sits down with guests Nic Koski of Common Ground Coffee Shop and Will Swanson of MOM's grocery store for a live show recorded at Red Emma's in Baltimore. If you've been keeping up with local and national news, you'll know there's a huge wave of activity surrounding labor and unions. On this episode, you'll hear two local stories of workers' efforts and their results.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode #103 Carman Gaines, Associate Director of Local Color When asked to describe the San José art scene, Carman Gaines uses words like ‘passionate, diverse, obsessive, and community oriented.' One could argue that those words also best describe Carman's life view and journey to the present. Born and raised in San José, Carman tries to squeeze the most out of life for herself and in honor of her ancestors. Carman has an intentional approach to spending her time and the opportunities she pursues but balances those things by focusing only on what she can control. Carman studied art history and photography in college, learning its potential to impact lives and document history. However, she accepted early on that photography was not how she wanted to survive in a capitalist world, opting to use it as a form of catharsis and personal growth. That realization did not stop her from popping into different art spaces, dropping off resumes, taking unpaid internships, and commuting to a gallery job in San Francisco for a few years before tenaciously pursuing a position at Local Color that would bring her career in arts administration closer to home.  In the years since Carman began working for Local Color, she has taken on the role of associate director. Although her work often requires trips to what she calls ‘Grantland,' a destination of administrative paperwork and potential funding, she relishes the opportunity to provide artists and organizations a platform to impact the community through art. While Carman supports the art community through her career, she is also working towards a future that involves a farm, airstream, dismantling capitalism, and mutual aid. In her new podcast, ‘Plan and Story,' Carman sits down with folks in the community to discuss their visions for the future and the sometimes unforeseen road that will take them there. In our conversation, we discuss Carman's journey to working for Local Color, her experiences as an artist and arts administrator, and her inspiration and approach to life. Join Carman this Friday, October 27th, for Local Color's annual 31 Skulls fundraiser. This fundraiser supports local artists and helps fund this woman-powered organization, fostering connections between artists, people, and places. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/content-magazine/support

Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello of the 11th District moved to Baltimore after finishing school in upstate New York and worked for the General Accountability Office as an IT analyst. After a stint as President of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association, Costello combined his analyst background with his passion for service to make a successful bid for City Council.   Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Born and raised in West Baltimore just steps away from Penn-North, State Senator Antonio Hayes was a civil servant before he began serving the state of Maryland in earnest. The longer he worked to better the lives of the people in the 40th District, the more they trusted him to do so. As a state senator, he works alongside other governing bodies to make Baltimore and Maryland a more wonderful place to live. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jason V. concludes the two part series with Kirk Shannon Butts, Curation and Public Art Manager of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts. In Part 2 of his interview, Kirk discusses his return to Baltimore, advice for artists looking to “please” others, recent projects and exciting new projects on the horizon.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On an all new episode of Local Color, host Jason V sits down with Kirk Shannon Butts, Curation and Public Art Manager of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts. A fixture of Baltimore's arts scene, if you're at a trendy art opening for one of Charm City's next big artists, chances are Kirk is the curator. To some he's a friend and colleague; but to many in Baltimore, he's the mentor that pushes them to be their best selves, keep honing their craft, and tell their story with authenticity. This is Part 1 of a two part series! Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Baltimore City Councilwoman Odette T. Ramos of the “Fabulous 14th” District talks about her path to City Council, the highs and lows of civil service and how residents can and should work with the Baltimore City Council to realize goals for their community. Ramos also discusses current events, like the ongoing BGE controversies, and her support for Hampden's Common Ground Workers. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, Jason V. hosts a panel discussion with Dr. Johnny Graham of Howard University and Vic Carter of WJZ 13 about the history of Juneteenth, its impact on Black American culture and the state of Black business and commerce in Baltimore City at the Juneteenth Luncheon at The Center Club Baltimore. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Victoria Buggs is an award winning nurse, entrepreneur and two time combat veteran. Victoria grew up in Gary, Indiana, and at 18 decided to serve her country and joined the armed forces. After an honorable discharge from a celebrated 20 year career in the military, she opened the Center for Health Educators and Safety Specialists, providing courses and certifications on CPR, AED and other life saving training. Victoria believes anyone and everyone should know life saving skills, and though she's no longer in uniform, she continually dedicates herself to public service. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kelli Redmond Bagby of Mova Nature Juice Bar discusses her early life in Baltimore City, the painful life event that lead her to healthy eating and why salads and fresh pressed juices are more similar than they are different. *This episode is branded content for Tastewise Kids, and features ads as well as a brief interview with Linda Richardson, Development Director of Tastewise Kids. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jason V. talks with entrepreneur Tony Jia. When he was young, Tony's parents moved from Beijing, China to North America, living first in Vancouver, Canada then putting down roots in Fairfax County, Virginia. As those roots took hold, so did the idea of entrepreneurship take hold in Tony's mind. Using his passion for building things and the spirit of his business-minded father, Tony took the less traveled path to find himself and build businesses that protect and celebrate Asian identity.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's episode features a takeover of our popular weekly live Q&A session on Instagram, normally called Ask a Flower Farmer. In this episode we instead did an Ask a Florist session with guest host Ellen Frost of Local Color Flowers in Baltimore, MD. Ellen is not a flower farmer, but a designer who creates exclusively with flowers and foliage purchased from local growers.  She is also one of our course instructors here at The Gardener's Workshop. In this Q&A Ellen fielded many questions from flower farmers about the details of selling to florists, which is also the topic of her on-demand mini-workshop, link below. Mentions: Website: Local Color Flowers Instagram: Local Color Flowers Instagram: Florists Buying Local On-Demand Mini-Workshop: ⁠Preparing to Sell to Florists⁠ with Ellen Frost The Gardener's Workshop on Instagram Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers (ASCFG) Boston Terminal Ornamentals Wholesale Pricing The Floral Coach® Shop the TGW Online Store for all your seeds and supplies! Sign up to receive our weekly Farm News! The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-winning author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social media!

Tonya Miller Hall is currently Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture in the Baltimore Mayor's Office. Tonya returned home to Baltimore after building a PR career in New York City. Though NYC gave Tonya many professional experiences, coming home to Charm City gave her one experience she never expected — her name in the local paper. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Jason V.'s conversation continues with brothers Donta and Will Henson, the founders of Los Hermanos Tequila. The brothers had each taken a different path in life, but they shared a love of tequila. The pandemic brought them back together, and they decided to turn their passion into a business. They named their tequila brand after the unbreakable bond of their brotherhood. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Haley Cardamon first connected with the South Bay art scene in her teens when her family moved to Cannery Park in San José Japantown. Local purveyors such as Shorty Fatz Bicycles and Breezy Excursion exposed Haley to the vein of creativity that runs through San José. While taking courses at De Anza College, she found ways to combine class assignments with her interest in art. Those projects inspired her to start a magazine that could serve as a platform for underground art in the Bay Area. The publication was called B.A.C.K. (Bay Area Creative Klub). The connections Haley made through local art and curating the magazine led her to Local Color, a woman-powered arts nonprofit with a mission to build equitable opportunities for San José artists. Beginning as a volunteer, Haley would later earn a position on Local Color's staff that deepened her connection with the community. Energized by the impact of San José's creative culture, Haley launched an event named after the city. Initially called ‘408 day', now called ‘San José Day,' the event fosters community by curating an authentic representation of San José's creative culture. In our conversation, Haley shares her experiences curating B.A.C.K. magazine, connecting with the arts community, and finding her own path in the art world, her city, and her life.Make sure to come out on 4-08-2023 for San José Day, hosted by the School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza from 12-6 pm. San José Day (⁠https://linktr.ee/sanjoseday⁠⁠) IG: sanjoseday (⁠https://www.instagram.com/sanjoseday/⁠) Haley was featured in issue 10.2. (https://www.content-magazine.com/articles/10-2-haley-cardamon) __________________ This episode's music is "408" by Jack Pavlina. Read more about Jack in Issue 14.1 Winter 2022 — release date: Dec. 9, 2021: https://bit.ly/Discover141 Follow Jack at @jackpavlinamusic (https://instagram.com/jackpavlinamusic) Spotify: https://bit.ly/jackpavlina --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/content-magazine/support

Brothers Donta and Will Henson are the founders of Los Hermanos Tequila. They'd each taken a different path in life, but they shared a love of tequila. The pandemic brought them back together, and they decided to turn their passion into a business, naming their tequila brand after the unbreakable bond of their brotherhood. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DaQuan Brown, founder of Woo's Miracle Moss, learned about sea moss while researching holistic medicine to help his grandmother recover after a surgical procedure. He took his knowledge of the subject and turned it into a business, where he packages and sells sea moss and educates clients on alternative medicine. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Names hold power in our lives, and life has a weird way of moving in a circle. For A'Lelia Bundles, her name shaped her life, and in turn, her life circled back to her name. She's the great great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, but it was something she kept to herself because she wanted to be her own person. In this revisited conversation, listen as we talk about A'Lelia's childhood in Indianapolis, making her own way in media and journalism, and how from graduate school to the present day, A'Lelia carries and protects the stories of her ancestors as well as her own story. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fran Ngong worked in corporate America and suffered from venous insufficiency and extremely dry skin. After discovering shea butter, Fran decided to start a business, Fran's Organic Bodycare, that shares the wealth of “good health” with the world. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, Jason V. sits down with Elizabeth Byler, founder of Eden Environments. Listen as Elizabeth talks about the culture shock of moving to the U.S. from East Africa, their inspiration to start their own business, and the “invisible” world of size inclusive and trauma informed interior design. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the year comes to a close, I want to replay my interview with (now outgoing) Your Public Radio President and CEO, LaFontaine E. Oliver. In January 2023, he'll join New York Public Radio as their President and CEO. I want to personally thank LaFontaine (among others who are current and former WYPR employees) for taking a chance on me and giving me the opportunity to distribute my podcast through Your Public Studios. It's already led to great opportunities and from an analytics standpoint...things are looking up! I'm hard at work on new episodes and ideas for 2023. Happy (almost) New Year! Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jason V. talks with Lisa Snowden, founder and editor in chief of The Baltimore Beat, a Black owned and operated nonprofit newspaper. Lisa grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, and after receiving her degree in journalism, she started her career on TV Hill. After years of honing her craft including a stint in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Lisa launched, then re-launched, The Baltimore Beat to provide local Black stories by local Black journalists, in an industry that routinely struggles with representation in the newsroom.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Social media comedian Nkunim Owusu started making comedy videos to send to friends, and they encouraged him to share his talents with the world. When one of his videos got more than 24 million views on TikTok, he decided to continue making content. Nkunim's unique brand of comedy touches on anime, video games, and sports - all centered around the Black experience.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Directing is not about being a dictator but about letting things happen.After selling a couple of scripts in New York but feeling burned by the lack of production companies, George Gallo decided to take his 800 bucks and try luck in Los Angeles. After knocking on many doors and a lot of cold calling, he sold MGM a script for a movie. He walked around with that 100K check in his wallet for a week before cashing it; he was worried if the check would clear. George breathes art; he is a writer, director, painter, and musician and has been married to the actress and producer Julie Lott Gallo for 38 years.As a director, George worked with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Meg Ryan, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Robert Forster, James Caan, and Brendan Fraser, to name a few. He has created or directed all kinds of pieces, from action comedies like "Midnight Run" and "Bad Boys" to heartwarming tales such as "29th Street" and "Local Color." He was awarded "The Stanley Kramer Mad, Mad World Award" for comedy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the "Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival" for his film "The Comeback Trail," starring Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, and Eddie Griffin. In this episode, George talks about his passion for writing and making movies and the relentless determination that helped him be where he is today. We talk about his directing style, his struggles with imposter syndrome, and what he believes is needed to succeed in Hollywood. He kindly shared some fantastic stories and experiences working with Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones, what he learned from them, and more. In This Episode, You Will Learn:A bit about George's first steps in Los Angeles (7:36)How to overcome the fear of doing something scary (17:09)When imposter syndrome hits before directing Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones (19:09)The importance of having a supportive life partner (31:18)The chances of winning increase every time you throw the dice (35:39)George meets Robert DeNiro (40:59)Advice for young actors, directors, and writers (59:29)Real directing is troubleshooting (1:02:09)Connect with George Gallo:IMDbLet's Connect: Manhattan Actor Studio Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Jason talks with Cara Sabin, CEO of Sundial Brands, a Unilever company. They discuss Cara's adventures in marketing and how her role as CEO factors into the operation of the Madam by CJW haircare brand. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entrepreneur and "attorney in recovery” Tashira Halyard of Politics and Fashion talks about her early days hustling in the world of law, explains why she had to break the cycle of putting everything before her health, and she drops some gems for those looking to scratch the itch of entrepreneurship. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Technology has a weird way of slowly pushing us to a future we'd only see in sci-fi movies as kids, while still maintaining and rooting us in tradition. For hundreds of  years ailing people sought the help of energy healers, traveling far and wide to seek healing from “experts.” Nowadays a Google search or YouTube video can bring you the same relief our ancestors risked their lives to receive. Enter Jessica “Jet” LaShea, who runs “Reiki Healing Hope," a Reiki and ASMR YouTube channel with over 23 million views to date. Listen as the Arlington native talks about her life growing up in Virginia, the winding path she took to get where she is today, and why she thinks more than ever, Black people are comfortable seeking and practicing more traditional and esoteric forms of worship.  Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. The views expressed are solely Jason V.'s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Names hold power in our lives, and life has a weird way of moving in a circle. For A'Lelia Bundles, her name shaped her life, and in turn, her life circled back to her name. She's the great-great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, but she kept that to herself because she wanted to be her own person. Listen as we talk about A'Lelia's childhood in Indianapolis, making her own way in media and journalism, and how from graduate school to the present day, A'Lelia carries and protects the stories of her ancestors and her own story as well. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This interview is the result of running into Jerome at the Juneteenth pop-up in Reservoir Hill. Think of it as a follow up to his first interview with the podcast back in 2020. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back and check it out so you can get the full picture and see the evolution of Jerome as an artist and as a man. On this episode, we talk about self-exploration, the blurred lines of a brand and an identity and about Jerome's upcoming solo exhibition, “It'll All Make Sense.” Be sure to check out “It'll All Make Sense,” from September 1st to October 2nd at The Alchemy of Art, 1637 Eastern Ave. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ada Pinkston has been a mainstay in Baltimore's arts scene for quite some time now. She's got the CV, performance pedigree, and enough Ws in the “grants received” column to stand next to anyone in the DMV that calls themselves an “artist.” Listen as Ada talks about her childhood and travels all over the country, what influenced her move to Baltimore and why she stayed, advice for would-be grant applicants, and much more! Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi! I'm Scott Shepherd and I want to welcome you to this special episode of The Flower Podcast, where I have conversations with floral professionals from farmers to florists of all kinds. We've been on our summer break and I'm really excited for the beginning of our new season next week and wanted to share my conversation on Instagram with Ellen Frost of Local Color Flowers. During the recent strikes in Ecuador, with all of its supply distributions issues, Ellen and I connected and thought it would be a good time to chat about sourcing, growing, and selling local garden roses. If you're new to our podcast Ellen shares her story and love of local flowers on Episode 106 which released in the fall of 2020. She always has great insights since she operates her floral business using local blooms exclusively. I was happy when Ellen reached out to me and wanted to go LIVE on Instagram sharing her experiences working with local roses and rose growers. Next week launches our new season and I want to invite you to subscribe to our podcast on your podcast app of choice. It's hard to believe that we just had our 4 year anniversary and so excited to have you as part of our life. You can learn more about all of past guests, including the original episode with Ellen, and all of our blog posts at theflowerpodcast.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for access to all of our Zoom chats, tutorials, IG Lives, and video extras. We're grateful for the support of our sponsors of The Flower Podcast!! Curate Accent Decor ASCFG Rooted Farmers Real Flower Business Society of American Florists Intrigued Experience Conference

Vision, passion, and love are three flames of the same fire that burns inside us. In order to have vision you must be passionate and love what you're doing; in order to love you must be passionate and have vision for a long term commitment. Passion is something that you can't manufacture, and the vision and love for fashion design is what Yele passionately puts into her creations at Yelestitches. Listen as she talks about moving from Nigeria to Baltimore, how early success motivates her to work harder, and some words about the DMV's entrepreneur scene. Local Color is hosted and produced by Jason V. and is distributed by Your Public Studios. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dolly Parton - The Ultimate Local Color Songwriter!

My fascination with Ellen Frost's local flower sourcing design studio model, Local Color Flowers, began years ago when we first met. Every flower farmer needs an Ellen on their customer list! Local Color Flowers is located in Baltimore, Maryland. She buys all her flowers from growers within 100 miles of the shop, and she does it year-round. Let's walk through a year, month-by-month of what is going on in Ellen's studio plus what they are buying. Please see the PDF link below for the full outline. Links & Mentions PDF: A Designer's Month-to-Month (What they buy) Request Ellen's Dried Wreath Webinar Connect with Ellen on Instagram: Local Color Flowers Florist Buying Local Flowers Learn about Ellen's Course Growing Your Business with Local Flower Sourcing The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-wining author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social!

Kate Chopin - The Awakening - Episode 1 - Meet The Author, Discover Local Color And Feminism!   I'm Christy Shriver, and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    And I'm Garry Shriver, and this is the How to Love lit Podcast.  This episode we begin a journey to a very unique American location to discuss a very American author. Kate Chopin, was born in St Louis but her heritage is more associated with Louisiana than with Missouri as she is from an originally American people group, the Louisianan Creole's.  Christy, I know, you lived a part of your life in Louisiana, and your dad's family is from Louisiana.  As we discuss Kate Chopin and her unusual and ill-received novel The Awakening, I think a great place to start our discussion, especially for those who may not be familiar with American geography, is with the Pelican State itself.   What makes Louisiana so unusual than the rest of the United States, and why does that matter when we read a book like The Awakening.    Well, there are so many things that people think of when the think of Louisiana- Louisianan distinctive include Mardi Gras, crawfish bowls, jazz music, bayous, The French Quarter of New Orleans and its beignets.  The list is cultural distinctives is long.   But, just for a general reference, Louisiana is part of the American South.  Now, it might seem that the states that constitute the South are kind of all the same- and in some respects that's true.  Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, and the rest of them, … after all, they all succeeded from the Union during the Civil War, they all had slaves, they all have had to one degree or another racial tension over the last two hundred years, and, of course, to bring it to modern-day, they all are deeply entrenched in a tradition of American football, barbeque, shot guns, sweet tea, the Bible and a general admiration of good manners that include addressing each other as mr. mrs, yes mam and no sir.      Ha!  Yes, that IS the South.  I remember moving down here and being frustrated that I could never find anywhere that served tea without sugar- and when they say sweet tea down here- I'm talking one step away from maple syrup.      I like it!!!       People do and feel strongly about it.  In fact a lot of people have a lot have strong feelings about this part of the United States.  Some love the South; others hate it.  It's a part of the United States that is historical, by American standards, although laughably young compared to other parts of the world,  and controversial- to this very day.     Yes, yet having said that,  once you move here, it doesn't take you long to realize that  The South is not one cohesive unit.  Every state is very different.  Florida was colonized by the Spanish- and has strong ties to places such as Cuba to this day.  Virginia was the seat of government and is still central to the heart of American politics.  The horse-racing people of Kentucky are very different from their cotton-growing neighbors in Mississippi.  There are many many cultural distinctives that are both old and deep.  Which brings us to the great state of Louisiana- Louisiana, especially South Louisiana, in some ways has more in common with the Caribbean islands than it does with other parts of the United States.  My daddy was born in Spring Hill, Louisiana and raised in Bastrop Louisiana which are in North Louisiana- far from the coast but the people of north Louisiana share many commonalities with their Cajun and Creole brothers.  I have early memories of magnolia trees, cypress trees, bayous, shrimp gumbo,  and, of my Uncle Lanny taking us in the middle of the night out with his hound dogs to go coon hunting- as in racoon hunting.      So, for the record, these are things you don't see in other parts of the United States.      Indeed, they don't have bayous and gumbo anywhere else- and although they do have racoons in other places and likely hunt and eat them, I don't know.  The whole government of Louisiana is different and its visible.  They have parishes instead of counties.  The law is based on French law, not British law which affects everything.   It is predominantly Catholic not Protestant, hence Mardi Gras, which is what they call Carnival in Brazil but which we don't celebrate in other part of the US.  But what interests us for this book is the ethnic origins of the people indigenous to the region.     The rural part of the state has been dominated by a group we call Cajuns.  Cajuns are Roman Catholic French Canadians, or at least their descendents were.      They were run out of the Captured French Colony called Acadia in North Eastern Canada- it's actually be termed “the Acadian diaspora”.  Acadia was in the maritime provinces up on the Atlantic side, near the US state of Maine. That part of Canada was very British hence the obvious antagonism.      Well, The word Acadians kind of morphed into Cajuns over the years.  That's one people group.  But we also have another distinctively Louisianan people group  called the Louisiana Creoles.  This group of people ethnically are entirely different group than the Cajuns but also speak French.  Our author today, Kate Chopin was a creole, and she wrote about Lousianan Creole people.  Garry, before we introduce the Mrs. Chopin, local color and her influencial work, The Awakening, let's learn just a little about these remarkable people.  Who are the Creoles of Louisiana?    Well, let me preface by saying, as Kate Chopin would be the first to admit, history is always messy- people marry, intermarry, languages get confused and muddled, so when we talk about distinctives, we are talking about generalities, and if you want take to talk about Creole people the first word that must come to mind is multi-cultural.  There are creole peoples all over the Caribbean.  Haiti is the first country that comes to mind, so we need to be careful as we speak in generalities. But  the first generality you will notice of the Louisianan Creole people shows up in the first chapter of Chopin's book, and that is that they also speak the French language, except for the Louisiana Creoles that can mean two different actual languages.  Today, and the latest stat, I saw was from May of 2020,  1,281,300 identified French as their native tongue- that would be Colonial French, standard French and the speakers of would include both people groups the Cajuns and the Louisianan Creoles.  But what is even more interesting than that is that the language Louisiana Creole is its own distinctive indigenous language, and is not the same as Haitian Creole or Hawaiian Creole or any other form of Creole where you might hear that word.  Meaning, Louisianan Creole although having origins in the French language is not French at all but its own distinct language.   This is confusing because the Cajuns speak a dialect of French that sounds different than the French from France or Quebec, but it's still French and French speakers can understand what they are saying even if it sounds different than the way they might pronounce things.  That's different. Creole is French-based, but has African influences and is literally its own language and French speakers cannot understand it.  Today it's an endangered language, only about 10,000 people speak it, but it is still alive.       Yeah, that wasn't something I understood as a teenager living in Louisiana. I thought Cajun- Creole all meant Lousianan.  Since we lived in North Louisiana, I never met anyone personally who spoke Lousiana Creole.  All the Creole's I came into contact, including Mrs. Devereaux, my French teacher spoke traditional French, which is what they do in Chopin's book too, btw.       Of course, Cajuns and Creole people have a lot in common in terms of religion and even in taste in cuisine, but where they differ tremendously is in ethnicity and also in social class.  The Cajuns are white and from Canada but often rural and historically lower-middle class.  The Creole's are not white, but culturally a part of the urban elite, the ruling class.  They are the first multi-cultural people group on the American continent and deserve a special status for that reason.    Explain that, because that's really interesting.  Today, to be multi-cultural is cool, but 100 years ago when ethnic groups did not intermingle, and being a multi-cultural group that was upper class seems like a huge anomaly.  Although I will say the word “creole” tips you off to the multi-cultural element.  It actually comes from the Portuguese word “crioulo” and the word itself means people who were created.     And again, I do want to point out that this is kind of a very big simplification of a couple of hundred years of history, but in short, the criolos were people who were born in the new World- but mostly of mixed heritage.  Gentlemen farmers, primarily French and Spanish came over to the new world.  A lot of them came  by way of the Caribbean after the slave revolt in Haiti.   They had relationships and often even second families with local people here. Many were Black slaves, others were native Americans, lots were mulattos who also came from the Caribbean.  Unlike mixed raced people from Mississippi or Alabama, Creoles were not slaves.  They were free people.  They were educated.  They spoke French and many rose to high positions of politics, arts and culture. They were the elite, many were slaveholders.  Now, I will say, that most chose to speak Colonial French over Louisiana Creole as they got more educated, also over time as we got closer to the Civil War era being mixed race in and of itself got pretty complicated with the black/white caste-system of the South, which is another story in and of itself.   And as a result, you had creoles who were identifying as white and others who didn't- Chopin's family were white creoles.  But regardless of all that, but in the 1850s and through the life of Chopin, until today, Creoles are a separate people group that identify themselves as such.  They are a proud group of people who worship together, connect socially together, and often build communities around each other. They have societal behaviors and customs that set them apart, and we learn by looking at life through Edna Pontellier's eyes, have a culture that can difficult for an outsider to penetrate, if you marry an insider.    And so enters, Mrs. Kate Chopin, born in 1851 to a mother who was Creole and a father who was a Irish, both Catholic. She was not born in Louisisana, but in the great midwestern city of St. Louis.  St Louis, at the time had a rather large Creole population by virtue of being a city on the Mississippi river- which runs from New Orleans miles north. Her mom's family was old, distinguished and part of what has been termed the “Creole Aristocracy”.  Kate grew up speaking French as a first language, and as many Creole women was raised to be very independent by three generations of women in the household. She received an exceptional education, was interested in what they called “the woman question”.  This will give you an indication of how progressive her family actually was, now brace yourself because this is scandalous….on a trip to New Orleans at the ripe age of 18, Kate learned to smoke.    Oh my, did she smoke behind the high school gym or in the bathroom stalls?    Ha!  Who even knows, but we do know that at age 19 she married the love of her life, another Creole, Oscar Chopin.  Kate and Oscar were very compatible and the years she was married to him have been described as nothing but really happy by all of her biographers that I'm familiar with.  They lived in New Orleans at first and then to Natchitoches parish in the central Louisiana where he owned and operated a general store.  They were married for 12 years, and- this small fact wipes me out- they had five sons and two daughters.    Ha!  That confirms all the Catholic stereotypes of large families.      I know right, that's just a lot…and their lives were, by all accounts, going well until…there's always an until… Oscar suffered the fate of a lot of people around the world even to this day, who live in hot climates.  He caught malaria, and suddenly died.  And there Kate was, alone in the middle of the interior of Louisiana,  with this store and all these kids.  She ran it herself for over a year, but then decided to do what lots of us would do in that situation…she moved back to the hometown of her childhood, St. Louis so she could be near her mother- I didn't mention it before but her father had died in a terrible railroad accident when she was a young child and her brother had died in the Civil War- so basically all of the men that had meant anything to her at all, had all died.  One of Kate's daughters had this to say about that later on when she was an adult talking about her mom, “When I speak of my mother's keen sense of humor and of her habit of looking on the amusing side of everything, I don't want to give the impression of her being joyous, for she was on the contrary rather a sad nature…I think the tragic death of her father early in her life, of her much beloved brothers, the loss of her young husband and her mother, left a stamp of sadness on her which was never lost.”      Goodness, that Is a lot of sadness.    Well, it is and it took a toll.  When she got back to St. Louis, Dr. Kolbenheyer, their obgyn and a family friend talked her into studying some French writers for the sake of  mental health, specifically Maupassant and Zola and take up writing.  She took that advice ..…so at age 38 a widow with six living children, Chopin began her writing career.  A career, sadly that was only going to last five years.  It started great, and she was super popular, but then….she wrote a scandalous book and was cancelled, and I mean totally cancelled.  Five years after the publication of  this candalous book that today we call The Awakening, she had a stroke and died.  At the time of her death, Kate Chopin as a writer, was virtually unknown and uncelebrated.      What do you mean by cancelled? That sounds like a crazy story for a mommy writer.    True, and it is.  When she started  writing, she was super popular.  This kind of reminds me a little of Shirley Jackson, honestly.  She wrote short things for magazines for money.  What made her work popular, at least in part, was because writing about a subculture of America that people found interesting.  Although she was living in St. Louis, her stories were set in Louisiana amongst the Creole people- and people loved it.  This movement in American literature where authors focus on a specific region or people group  has been called “Local Color”, and her ability to showcase the local color of the Creole people led her to success.        Subcultures are so fascinating to me and I'm always amazed at how many different subcultures there are- and I'm not talking about just ethnically. There are endless subcultures on this earth, and most of the time we don't even know what we're looking at.    Oh, for sure.  I think of guitar players as their own subculture- they speak their own language, have their own passions, I wouldn't be surprised if they have their own foods.     HA!  Do I sense a bit of mockery?  But you are right, we do have a little bit of a subculture, but if you think guitarists are a subculture, what do you think of my cousin Sherry who is neck deep into Harley Davidson culture and goes to Sturgis, South Dakota every year.     True, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who participate in that subculture all over the world   And of course, we're talking about hobbies which are not the same as actual ethnic subcultures in any location, understanding and just seeing behind the fence of someone else' experience is the fun.  The idea of living life vicariously through the stories, so to speak, of people who are so radically differently is one of the things I most love about reading.  In the real sense of the term “local color” though, this was an actual movement after the Civil War.  Authors were using settings from different parts of the country and it made the writing feel romantic for people unfamiliar with the setting while actually being fundamentally realistic- I know that's a paradox, but if you think about it it makes sense.  They were works that could only be written from inside the culture by someone who was a part of it- that's what made them realistic.   Chopin was considered a local color author because she was Creole writing about the world of Louisiana Creoles.      Well, apparently it was well received.  She got stories printed first in regional publications but then in national publications.  “The Story of an Hour” which was the only story I had ever read of hers, and I didn't know this, was published in Vogue in 1894.      Very impressive, Houghton Mifflin, the publisher that to this day publishes quite a bit of high school literature textbooks actually published a collection of her stories, titled it Bayou Folk.  So, just in the title, you can tell they are playing up her Louisiana connection.  And that book was a success.  Chopin, who kept notes on how well all of her works were doing, wrote that she had seen 100 press notices about the book.  It was written up in both The Atlantic and the New York Times.  People loved how she used local dialects. They found the stories and I quote “charning and pleasant.”  She was even asked to write an essay on writing for the literary journal Critic- which I found really insightful.     Well, of course, all of these things sound like a woman bound for monetary and critical success- stardom of her day.       And so her trajectory kept ascending.  She was published in the Saturday Evening Post.  Of course that was a big deal.  Everything was moving in the right direction….until.. The Awakening.  The Awakening was too much and she crashed immediately and hard.     You know, when I read these reviews from 1899, it's so interesting how strongly they reacted.  Let me read a few, her local paper, The St Louis Daily Globe-Democrat wrote this, “It is not a healthy book….if it points any particular moral or teaches any lesson the fact is not apparent.” The Chicago Times Herald wrote, “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the over-worked field of sex-fiction.  This is not a pleasant story.”  Here's another one, “its disagreeable glimpses of sensuality are repellent.”      She was not prepared for this.  She did not expect it.  She was expecting people to see it as the American version of some of the things she had been reading in French that had been published in France.  Her treatment of sexuality is what really got her, and maybe if her protagonist had been male she could have gotten away with it.  Actually, I'm pretty sure, she would have gotten away with it, there are other authors who did.  But discussing how women felt about sexuality- and let me say- in case you haven't read the book- this is not a harlequin romance.  She doesn't talk about hot steamy passion in descriptive tones.  She is very polished and shows deference to the WAY things were expressed in her day.  The problem was not in how she was treating sexual content- the problem was that she WAS discussing how women felt about sexuality and this just was too realistic.  People weren't and maybe we still aren't, ready to be vulnerable about how we feel about intimacy.      You know, I tell students all the time that in American politics, sexual issues have always been used as a wedge issue to define people's position as good or bad people.  That has not changed in the American political scene in 200 years and is something our European and Asian friends have mocked us about for just as long.  We are a people committed to moralizing, even to this day.  For a long time, it was cloaked in religion, but now, hyperbolic moralizing, although not done in the name of a faith is still a favorite American pastime.      Well, honestly, I guess that's also been true for the arts as well.  But honestly, greatr art is never moralizing.  And Chopin knew that.  Furthermore, if anyone had read that essay Chopin printed about her writing that I referenced, they would have seen that Chopin, by design, does NOT moralize in hers.  She does not condemn or judge.  She has no interest in telling us how we should or shouldn't behave.  She sees the role of the artist, and clearly stated as much,  and the role of fiction as in demonstrating how we genuinely ARE as human beings.  It is a role of showcasing the human experience.  It is meant to help us understand ourselves.  What she does in her writing by using a culture that is unfamiliar to us, is allow us a safer space from which we can pull back the veil that IS our experience, so we can see ourselves.  Let me quote her from that essay and here she's talking about the Creole people of Louisiana,    “Among these people are to be found an earnestness in the acquirement and dissemination of book-learning, a clinging to the past and conventional standards, an almost Creolean sensitiveness to criticism and a singular ignorance of, or disregard for, the value of the highest art forms. There is a very, very big world lying not wholly in northern Indiana, nor does it lie at the antipodes, either. It is human existence in its subtle, complex, true meaning, stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it.”  Well, regardless of how she wanted to come across, apparently, she struck a nerve people didn't want struck.  The Awakening unsettled America.  The book was published in April of 1899, by August critics were destroying it, and again I'll use the reviewers words,  it had been deemed “morbid and unwholesome” and was reproached on a national stage.  She was scorned publicly.  When she submitted a new short story to the Atlantic “Ti Demon” in November after the publication of The Awakening it was returned and rejected.    Her own publisher, the one who had published the controversial book decided to “shorten is list of authors”- and they dropped her.  Of course to be fair, they claimed that decision had nothing to do with the problems with the reception of The Awakening.    I'm sure that it didn't.  Chopin was obviously crushed.  She would only write seven more stories over the next five years.  In 1904 when she died of a stroke, she was basically a forgotten writer.  And likely would have remained forgotten until, ironically the French discovered the novel in 1952.  A writer by the name of Cyrille Arnavon translated it into French under the title Edna with a 22 page introduction essay called it a neglected masterpiece.  What he liked about it had nothing to do with “local color” or creole people or anything Americana.  He saw in it what we see in it today- psychological analysis.      So fascinating, this is the 1950s; this is exactly the time period psychology is shifting from Freudian interpretations of Chopin's' day into behaviorism and eventually to humanistic psychology.      Why does this matter?    With Freud everything is secret and we're ruled by unseen forces we don't understand without psychoanalysis.  Chopin's book came out when this was how we were looking at the world.  After him came Skinner's behaviorism which said everything can be reduced to rewards and punishments.   Humanistic psychology is this third way of looking at things.  It's extremely empathetic.  Names like Karl Rogers were looking at life with the idea that it's just plain difficult to be a human, and we need to understand this complexity.  They would like books that are not all black/white thinking or moralistic.  This is what's crazy to me about Chopin.  She wrote in the days of Freud, but she was so far ahead of her time psychologically; nobody would get her for another 60 years- literally two entire movements later in the field of psychology.      Well, when they did get her, they really got her.  In 1969 a Norwegian critic Per Seyersted brought her out into the open in a big way.  This is what he said, “ Chopin, and I quote “broke new ground in American literature. She was the first woman writer in her country to accept passion as a legitimate subject for serious, outspoken fiction. Revolting against tradition and authority; with a daring which we can hardy fathom today; with an uncompromising honesty and no trace of sensationalism, she undertook to give the unsparing truth about woman's submerged life. She was something of a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman's urge for an existential authenticity. She is in many respects a modern writer, particularly in her awareness of the complexities of truth and the complications of freedom.”    Finally people were understanding what she was trying to do.  That's exactly what she wanted to show- the complexity of being human.  Here's another Chopin quote whole talking about the role of a writer, “Thou shalt not preach; “thou shalt not instruct thy neighbor”.  Or as her great- grandmother Carleville, who was extremely influencial in her life, used to tell her, Kate's grandmother who raised her was known for saying this “One may know a great deal about people without judging them.  God does that.”    Well, she was immediately resurrected.  Today she is considered one of America's premiere writers.    Well, it also didn't hurt her reputation that she was being discovered in Europe at the exact same time, the women's movement was taking off in the United States and finding an unsung feminist writer was very popular.     Yeah, I thought she WAS a feminist writer, but you don't see her as that.    I really don't, and that's not to say there isn't any feminism in the book, because obviously, it's about life as a woman at the turn of the century.  Virginia Wolfe famouslty argued in her essay A Room of One's Own that no one knew what women were thinking and feeling in the 17th century because they weren't writing.  Well, you can't say that about Chopin.  She was absolutely writing about what women were thinking and feeling, it just took 60 years for the world to allow her to share it.        If we want to talk the particulars about The Awakening, which of course we do, we have a female protagonist.  I'm not going to call her a hero because I don't find anything heroic about her.  But it's very very honest characterization of what women feel, and honestly, perhaps it's what a lot of people feel- both men and women when they live, as we all do, within cultures of high expectations.      Isn't writing about standing up to cultural norms and societal expectations kind of cliché?  I'm surprised you find it interesting in this situation.     Well, it for sure can be.  It's what a lot of teenage angst poetry is about.  But Chopin's book is a lot more complex than just a denouncement on social expectations of women's roles.  In some ways, that's just the setting.  This particular woman, Edna, is for sure, unhappyily objectified by a husband.  That part is obvious.  But, Chopin isn't necessarily moralizing against this or anything else.  In the opening encounter between husband and wife, we see the wife being objectified, but we also see that they have worked out some deal.  She has a very privileged life.  It's not a life between two people who have emotional intimacy, for sure.  These two clearly don't.  Edna asks if her husband plans on showing up for dinner.  He basically sayd, I don't know- I may; I may not.  It doesn't appear Edna could care less one way or another and Chopin isn't condemning them; she is observing.  This are the deals people are working out in the world.  She makes other observations in regard to Edna and her relationship with her children.  She loves her children; sort of; but it's certainly not the motherly and passionate devotion most mothers feel towards their kids.  It's definitely not the self-denying ideal, we see expressed through a different character in the book.  Again, Chopin is not endorsing nor condemning.  She's observing.  There's no doubt, Chopin herself was progressive.  She was raised in a house of dominant women.  She herself was a head of household.  She was educated.  She made money, but she had healthy relationships with the men in her life.  She is not a man-hater, that I can tell.  She never remarried but there is reason to believe she had at least one  other significant male relationship after her husband's death.  So, portraying her as a woman who influenced feminism in any kind of deliberate way, I don't think is something that she intended, nor was it something that happened.  She was cancelled.    I understand that, it's just interesting that today, we think of her first and foremost as a feminist writer in large part because she had sexual content in her books.  Although, as I think about the progressive women in the 1890s, what we know about them from history is that most were not really be fans of indiscriminate sex.     Oh my, we're getting edgy here, but I have to ask.  Why do you say that?    You have to understand this is before birth control.  Sexual relationships for women meant running the very real risk of generating children which was often a life-risking ordeal.  Kate herself had gone through that seven times in twelve years.  Women were spending half of their lives pregnant.  Many progressive women in this time period were not fighting for the freedom to have sex, they were fighting for the right to NOT have it.  They wanted the right to say no.  The goal of Self ownership was central to nineteenth century feminism.  Woman's rights were about possessing a fully realized human identity.  We think of this today in terms of sexual freedom but that's the arrogance of the presence kicking in.  Obviously human sexuality is a core part of the human experience and that's likely why it's central to Chopin's story, but there are other aspects of person hood.  Women, especially educated ones, were interested in navigating a sense of place in the community and the universe at large- and that involves all kinds of things- hard things like love, connections, maternity.    Exactly, and that's why Edna is so complicated.  Being a human is difficult.   Navigating  “the woman's sphere”, to use the expression of  the notable Chopin scholar Sandra Gilbert is complicated.  And so, we all find ourselves, one way or another in cages- some of our own making, some of the makings of our community, our religion, our culture, our own personalities- whatever it is.  And that is the opening of our story.  The Awakening starts with a woman in a cage.  This is not to say that men do not experience cages or awakenigs- they absolutely do, but Chopin is a woman and will speak from inside the world of women.  She will drop a woman named Edna, a middle child Presbyterian English speaking girl from Kentucky, into a French speaking Catholic world of elite Creole women.  Edna is flawed, but not awful.  She's flawed in the sense that we are all flawed.  This woman acts out- in the way that many of us have acted out- often as children, but for some of us, we don't experience this desire for agency until later in life.  For Edna it comes at the age of 26 and when it does- she will scandalize her world the way acting out always does.  She finds herself in a cage and decides she wants out...but then what…where do you go from there.  Let's read how Chopin sets this up in the first paragraph of her story.    A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:  “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!”  He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.  Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust.  He walked down the gallery and across the narrow “bridges” which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house. The parrot and the mocking-bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.    Christy, does she give the entire story away in the beginning?    She's doing something.  She opens with a bird- a parrot. We will talk more about this later, but birds are a big deal in this book.  But why a parrot- what do parrots do- well they imitate.  They talk.  This parrot is in a cage repeating something an English reader may not understand.      What does that phrase mean?    It means Go away! Go away!  For God's sake!  The bird is telling everyone to go away, and Mr. Pontellier pretty much ignores the bird and does actually go away.  The bird speaks a little Spanish but also a language no one else understands.  There's a lot of intentionality here.  This book begins with a bird in a cage and the book ends with a bird, but I won't tell you how we find that bird yet.       These 19th century writers were always using symbols on purpose.       They really do.  And if this one is our protagonist- what we can see is that she's beautiful, she's in a cage, and although she can talk, she cannot articulate something that can be heard properly or understood.      And so that is our starting point.    I think it is.  Next episode, we will join Edna and explore this beautiful place, Grand Isle- the site, and if the title of the book hasn't given it away yet, I will, of her Awakening.  We will watch Edna awaken- but then, we know from our visit with Camus…that is only step one.  Now what.    Indeed…now what.  Well, thank you for spending time with us today.  We hope you have enjoyed meeting Kate Chopin and jumping into the first paragraph of her lost but rediscovered American masterpiece, The Awakening.  And if you did, please support us by sharing this episode with a firend, either by text, by twitter, Instagram or email.  That's how we grow.  Also, if you have a favorite book, you'd like us to discuss, you are always invited to connect with us, again via all the ways Modern world people do.    Peace out!                 

Ellen Frost joins Lisa to discuss the unique business model of her floral design studio, Local Color Flowers, and how it has continued to evolve over time. Topics include: supporting local flower farmers, community building through regular studio events, and ramping up subscriptions. Links & Mentions: Ellen's Design Studio, Local Color Flowers: Website Instagram Facebook Florists Buying Local: Facebook Instagram and #floristsbuyinglocal Course: Florist School Online: Growing Your Business with Local Flower Sourcing The Field and Garden Podcast is produced by Lisa Mason Ziegler, award-wining author of Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers, owner of The Gardener's Workshop, Flower Farming School Online, and the publisher of Farmer-Florist School Online and Florist School Online. Watch Lisa's Story and connect with Lisa on social!

Known on social media as #LittleOldLadyWalking, American poet, author, and noted Camino de Santiago pilgrim Anne Born (https://tumbleweedpilgrim.com/) shares her tips and insights for walking the Camino with author Kevin Donahue (http://www.sacredstepsbook.com).  Anne has walked the Camino ten times and her practical advice on routes, packing, and pilgrim etiquette are the subject of her best-selling book "Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim". Her newest book, "If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim's Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela" connects readers to historical pilgrims and events as they unfolded at the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela. DISCUSSIONS FROM THIS EPISODE: Sacred Steps Podcast Leave a Voice Message for the Podcast BOOK: Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim BOOK: If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim's Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela ROUTE: Camino Ingles TIPS: 10 Tips for Walking the Camino in Winter CONNECT WITH THE SHOW ONLINE: Podcast Homepage - sacredstepspodcast.com Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage Journal Stream the Video Podcast on YouTube  Connect on Facebook View on Instagram MEET OUR GUEST:    Anne BornKnown on social media as #LittleOldLadyWalking, American poet, author, and noted Camino pilgrim Anne Born (https://tumbleweedpilgrim.com/) has walked the Camino de Santiago ten times. An award-winning writer, Anne is the publisher of The Backpack Press. Her writing focuses on family and life in a big city after growing up in a small one. She is the author of “A Marshmallow on the Bus,” “Prayer Beads on the Train,” “Waiting on a Platform,” “Turnstiles,” “Local Color."  Anne has written two books related to the Camino de Santiago: "Buen Camino! Tips from an American Pilgrim" and If You Stand Here: A Pilgrim's Tour of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela." Anne divides her time between New York and Michigan, and the Camino de Santiago in Spain.   MEET THE HOST:  Kevin DonahueHusband. Father. Backpacker. Pilgrim. Author.In 2019, Kevin Donahue set off from his home in the United States to begin a pilgrimage journey spanning both years and miles, walking across continents to the ancient end of the world, to kneel at the tombs of eight Apostles. Available for Easter 2023, Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage Journal is Kevin's first-hand account of the people and places found along the way to inspire questions and enlighten answers about faith, hope, and love. BOOK: Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage JournalAvailable from print and digital booksellers for Easter 2023, Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage Journal is the first-person account of a reluctant pilgrim navigating the eternal questions of faith while walking along the world's revered paths. The book follows one man's journey through Portugal and Spain on the Camino de Santiago, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean connecting California's Missions Trail, across England's ancient Pilgrims' Way, and onward towards Rome via Europe's forgotten footpaths on a journey of soulful discovery. More than a travelogue, Sacred Steps: A Pilgrimage Journal is a first-hand account of a pilgrim's journey and the people and places he finds to inspire questions and enlighten answers about faith, hope, and love.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Join Jason V. for Local Color, a podcast distributed by Your Public Studios. Local Color is dedicated to telling the stories of Black artists, business owners, and community leaders in Baltimore City and in the DMV. If you're looking for insightful interviews, heartfelt stories, and sometimes a good laugh, this is the podcast for you. Listen to Local Color on March 23 and every other Wednesday after that. Available wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fancy a PB&J? Well, Woodstock Nation, you know where to go – to the one and only Peanut Butter & Jelly Lady de la Woodstock, LENI BINDER! Leni lived in Sullivan County during Woodstock and worked tirelessly throughout the festival keeping the hungry hordes fed when food was scarce! Just as impressive is Leni's work to preserve the Woodstock site, along the way ensuring that Woodstock would be something that the residents of Bethel could look back on with pride! This is the first part of a FABULOUS two-parter...come on and share the love!

Fancy a PB&J? Well, Woodstock Nation, you know where to go – to the one and only Peanut Butter & Jelly Lady de la Woodstock, LENI BINDER! Leni lived in Sullivan County during Woodstock and worked tirelessly throughout the festival keeping the hungry hordes fed when food was scarce! Just as impressive is Leni's work to preserve the Woodstock site, along the way ensuring that Woodstock would be something that the residents of Bethel could look back on with pride! This is the second part of a FABULOUS two-parter...come on and share the love!

Local Color is a woman-powered 501 (C)(3) Non-profit building multifaceted opportunities that keeps creatives engaged, employed and active in the community. In this episode of the FIRM Podcast, we talk about their journeys leading to Local Color, their work, and the recently launched Local Commons program. From the Digital Underground, this is episode 9 with Erin, Carman and Haley from Local Color.

In this one I share some thoughts about Christmas and New Year, the result of me not shaving for about a week, my attempt to keep my work emails under control, recently being charged for a "senior haircut," an endless stream of House Hunters International at our house, and a documentary I watched about Scientology. I hope you enjoy it, thanks for listening! Join the mailing list here. Need twice the Surf Report? We've got you covered. Just pop on over to patreon.com/jeffkay, sign up for a $4 (or more) monthly donation, and you'll immediately gain access to the weekly bonus shows. They're each a full-length episode and are only available to supporters at Patreon. Upgrade today! Also, we now have a telephone hotline where you can leave your comments, questions, and suggestions. The number is 570-290-8151. Give us a call and there's a very good chance you'll be part of a future show. It's all voicemail, no actual human will answer. If you're too shy for such shenanigans, email us at surfreportpod@gmail.com

Daniel Thorson and Brendan discuss the work of John Vervaeke, creator of the "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" series, comparing and contrasting it to Daniel's own pioneering efforts to develop a framework and set of practices for training agents of healing and transformation in our disintegrating world. They also reflect on both the importance and the problem of creating "ontologically neutral" practices stripped of highly context-bound terminology and ideas, whether that be for a "religion that's not a religion" or the kind of framework Daniel is developing. 0:00 Introduction 1:50 On Entering Vervaekeland 5:49 Transformation: Virtue as a Leverage Point for Meaning 10:44 Vervaeke's Perennial Problems and His Proposed Ecology of Practices 18:35 Thorson's Framework of Five Aspects (1. Energy System, 2. Psyche, 3. Relationship, 4. Ethics, 5. Perception) 30:10 Thorson's Ecology of Practices: 1. Samadhi and Healthy Living; 2. "Focusing," Bio-Emotive Work, Internal Family Systems; 3. Circling and Intentional Community; 4. Human Systems; 5. Emptiness Insight 36:29 A Vervaeke-Thorson Synthesis? 39:12 Disenchanting Ecologies of Practice? The Challenge and Promise of Sacred Containers 46:44 A Missing Metanarrative? Connecting Myth and Praxis 50:39 An Ecology of Ecologies of Practices: Modular Methods, Local Color? 54:27 Wisdom's Scaling Constraints: Seeking Integration in a Disintegrating World Emerge podcast: https://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast The Monastic Academy: https://www.monasticacademy.com/ www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com

In this episode of the Farm Walks Podcast, we dive into direct-to-consumer marketing with Emily Tzeng of Local Color Farm and Fiber in Puyallup, WA. We talk about developing marketing channels, building a brand, and the ways she adapted her CSA and farmers market approach during COVID. We then chat with Matt Kelly, Executive Director of the Queen Anne Farmers Market about farmers market operations during COVID and what's in store for the 2021 season. Local Color Farm and Fiber is owned and operated by Emily Tzeng and Brian Love. They live and farm in the Puyallup River Valley, growing vegetables, heritage breed lamb, and natural dyes. They focus on growing heritage Asian veggies and raise sheep for both wool and meat. Most of their produce is marketed towards their CSA program and at the Queen Anne Farmers Market in Seattle. Their naturally dyed yarn line utilizes their own farm yarn as well as fiber from other Western farms and ranches and is all processed at small mills in the US. They believe in the synergy between plants and animals; they provide fertility for their produce and flowers using compost generated by their animals, extensive cover cropping, and organic fertilizer. Their sheep are rotated throughout their pastures and cover crops for the health of the land and the animals. Their flower field and natural dye plants provide lots of food and habitat for beneficial insects. They are proud to be a small farm, allowing them to touch each step of the process.This episode was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service's Farmers Market Promotion Program.

In this episode of the Down The Rabbit Hole podcast we catch up with My bro JV we begin  talking about Everything from  his time as a traffic reporter to his one of a Kind Podcast Local Color which Won 2019 Baltimore Magazines Best of Baltimore award. This podcast Chronicles Black Creatives and Change Makers in Baltimore City . This podcast helps us as people of color to create our own narrative as a community.  Also Follow The local Color Podcast on Ig : https://instagram.com/localcolorpodcast?igshid=1tvh53vfe6g13. And also peep the slick Local Color website : http://www.localcolorpodcast.com/ and also follow JV : https://instagram.com/jasonfromcham?igshid=vodxcmgtp8ik And Follow me on IG: https://instagram.com/robdamc?igshid=13as2ctyf2ok and also DM for episode Ideas!