Podcast appearances and mentions of mary austin

Today I'm offering you a masterclass in grieving well. One day—maybe even today—you will look at your story and see the very thing you prayed you'd never see. You could numb out and absolutely no one would blame you. But you have another option. It's harder, but so much better.Today, in my most tender conversation ever on The GoodHard Story Podcast, my strong-yet-soft sister-in-law Mary Austin Wolf Hall shares the treasures she's found in the deep darkness of a late term miscarriage. She's faced her grief head-on as an act of faith and I've been changed by witnessing it.Here's a preview of what we'll unpack:How we can prevent unprocessed griefWhat felt most comforting after her lossFinding the right proportions of mourning and distractionWhat to do when the platitudes don't feel satisfyingIf you want to face your grief head-on when the time comes, this episode is for you.Friends, my conversation with Mary Austin will focus on late term miscarriage and infant loss. I pray God will use our words to encourage those of you who are ready to hear them. If this discussion doesn't feel supportive to you today, please feel free to skip today's episode.Show Notes:MEND Coffee and Goods: https://www.mendcoffee.com/Treasures in the Dark: https://a.co/d/7JrkmFvDark Clouds Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop: https://a.co/d/bC8aXBNEmpty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy by Pam Vredevelt: https://a.co/d/enkfvtbRisen Motherhood Podcast Grief mini-series: https://www.risenmotherhood.com/griefScriptures referenced in this episode:Job 42:10-13***There's so much more to the story. For more messages of hope, free resources, and opportunities to connect with me, visit https://hopeheals.com/katherine.Follow me in Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hopeheals/⁠Subscribe to The GoodHard Story Podcast!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-hard-story-podcast/id1496882479Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0OYz6G9Q2tNNVOX9YSdmFb?si=043bd6b10a664bebWant a little hope in your inbox? ⁠⁠Sign up for the Hope Note⁠⁠, our twice-a-month digest of only the good stuff, like reflections from Katherine and a curated digest of the Internet's most redemptive content: https://hopeheals.com/hopenoteGet to know us:⁠⁠Hope Heals⁠⁠: https://hopeheals.com/⁠⁠Hope Heals Camp⁠⁠: https://hopeheals.com/camp⁠⁠Mend Coffee⁠⁠: https://www.mendcoffee.org/Instagram⁠: https://www.instagram.com/hopeheals/

Mary Hunter Austin was a U.S. writer known for walking throughout the American Southwest. But her life of activism was far more complicated than brief bios usually mention. Research: "Mary Hunter Austin." Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, Macmillan Reference USA, 1996. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2330100082/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=6a4f821e. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. "Mary Hunter Austin." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 23, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631008133/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=ceca42e0. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025. #0840: Willa Cather to Mary Hunter Austin, June 26 [1926]. https://cather.unl.edu/writings/letters/let0840 Austin, Mary Hunter. “Earth Horizon.” Houghton Mifflin. 1932. Austin, Mary Hunter. “Experiences Facing Death.” Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1931. Blend, Benay. “Mary Austin and the Western Conservation Movement: 1900-1927.” Journal of the Southwest , Spring, 1988, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1988). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40169782 Davis, Lisa Selin. “The Loneliest Land.” National Parks Conservation Association. Spring 2015. https://www.npca.org/articles/942-the-loneliest-land Egenhoff, Elizabeth L. “Mary Austin.” Mineral Information Service. November 1965. https://npshistory.com/publications/deva/mis-v18n11-1965.pdf Fink, Augusta. “I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin.” University of Arizona Press. 1983. Hoffman, Abraham. “Mary Austin, Stafford Austin, and the Owens Valley.” Journal of the Southwest , Autumn-Winter 2011, Vol. 53, No. ¾. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/41710078 Lanzendorfer, Joy. “Searching for Mary Austin.” Alta. https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a8713/searching-for-mary-austin-joy-lanzendorfer/ Online Archive of California. “Austin (Mary Hunter) Papers.” https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c85t3ppq/ Richards, Penny L. “Bad Blood and Lost Borders: Eugenic Ambivalence in Mary Austin’s Short Fiction.” Richards, Penny L. “Disability History Image #3.” 8/30/2005. https://disstud.blogspot.com/2005/08/ Romancito, Rick. “The Image Maker and the Writer.” Taos News. 10/2/2024. https://www.taosnews.com/opinion/columns/the-image-maker-and-the-writer/article_7805f16a-8ab9-5645-9e84-4a189e18ac23.html Siber, Kate. “The 19th-Century Writer Who Braved the Desert Alone.” Outside. 1/22/2019. https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/mary-austin-mojave-nature-writer/ Stout, Janis P. “Mary Austin’s Feminism: A Reassessment.” Studies in the Novel , spring 1998, Vol. 30, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29533250 The Ansel Adams Gallery. “Visions of Taos: The Making of “Taos Pueblo” by Ansel Adams and Mary Austin.” https://www.anseladams.com/visions-of-taos-the-making-of-taos-pueblo/ Viehmann, Martha L. “A Rain Song for America: Mary Austin, American Indians, and American Literature and Culture.” Western American Literature , Spring 2004, Vol. 39, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43022288 Wynn, Dudley. “Mary Austin, Woman Alone.” The Virginia Quarterly Review , SPRING 1937, Vol. 13, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26433922 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Austin is a pastor in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She writes Stained Glass in the City on Substack. It's deep and delightful.  Help Zak continue making this show by becoming a Best Advice Show Patron @ https://www.patreon.com/bestadviceshow---Call Zak on the advice show hotline @ 844-935-BEST---Share this episode on IG @BestAdviceShow

Rev. Mary Austin

Rev. Mary Austin

Rev. Mary Austin

MPP Sarah Jama has been censured by Queen's Park before she was removed from the NDP caucus for her comments on the Israel-Hamas war; An OPP officer is in serious, but non-life-threatening condition after they were struck by a Jeep attempting to evade police in Caledon, Ont; and, Mary Austin says she hired Ontario Certified Contractors and Builders Inc. and paid $107,000 for a kitchen they never built.

Rev. Mary Austin

Rev. Mary Austin

Rev. Mary Austin

Imagine sharing the ultimate victory in your sports career with a friend, not because you had to, but because you wanted to. That's exactly the warm tale of sportsmanship between pole vaulters Nina Kennedy and Katie Moon at the World Athletics Championships, where they chose to split the gold medal.Also, wrap your ears around the story of how Mary Austin, a dear friend of the late Freddie Mercury, hit a jackpot of $2.2 million from the sale of the Baby Grand Piano used by Mercury himself! The Kidney Project at the University of California in San Francisco has developed an implantable device that mimics the kidney's functions - a ray of hope for those battling kidney failure. To top it off, we introduce you to Kipiki, the world's rarest living giraffe, who was born without spots at the Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. This little giraffe is making a significant impact, proving that uniqueness is indeed beautiful. This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5747537/advertisement

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Con la excusa de su biopic, analizamos y disfrutamos de la mejor banda de todos los tiempos Bohemian Rhapsody: una película que celebra la música y la vida de Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody es una película biográfica que narra la historia de la banda de rock Queen y de su legendario cantante Freddie Mercury, desde sus inicios hasta el histórico concierto Live Aid de 1985. La película es un homenaje a la música y a la personalidad de Mercury, que se enfrentó a los prejuicios y a las dificultades de su época con talento, carisma y rebeldía. La película está dirigida por Bryan Singer, con un guion de Anthony McCarten y Peter Morgan. El actor Rami Malek interpreta a Freddie Mercury con una impresionante transformación física y vocal, que le valió el Oscar al mejor actor en 2019. El reparto también incluye a Gwilym Lee como Brian May, Ben Hardy como Roger Taylor, Joseph Mazzello como John Deacon, Lucy Boynton como Mary Austin y Mike Myers como Ray Foster. Bohemian Rhapsody es una película que emociona y entretiene a los fans de Queen y a los amantes del cine. La película recrea con fidelidad y espectacularidad los momentos más importantes de la carrera de la banda, como la grabación del icónico tema que da título a la película, las giras mundiales, las tensiones internas y el triunfal regreso al escenario en el Live Aid. La película también muestra el lado más íntimo y humano de Mercury, sus relaciones afectivas, su lucha contra el sida y su legado musical. Bohemian Rhapsody es una película que merece la pena ver y escuchar, ya que cuenta con una banda sonora que incluye los grandes éxitos de Queen y con una interpretación magistral de Rami Malek. La película es un tributo a uno de los artistas más influyentes y queridos de la historia del rock. Antena Historia te regala 30 días PREMIUM, para que lo disfrutes https://www.ivoox.com/premium?affiliate-code=b4688a50868967db9ca413741a54cea5 Produce Antonio Cruz Edita ANTENA HISTORIA Antena Historia (podcast) forma parte del sello iVoox Originals web……….https://antenahistoria.com/ correo.....info@antenahistoria.com Facebook…..Antena Historia Podcast | Facebook Twitter…...https://twitter.com/AntenaHistoria Telegram…...https://t.me/foroantenahistoria DONACIONES PAYPAL...... https://paypal.me/ancrume ¿QUIERES ANUNCIARTE en ANTENA HISTORIA?, menciones, cuñas publicitarias, programas personalizados, etc. Dirígete a Antena Historia - AdVoices Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Con la excusa de su biopic, analizamos y disfrutamos de la mejor banda de todos los tiempos Bohemian Rhapsody: una película que celebra la música y la vida de Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody es una película biográfica que narra la historia de la banda de rock Queen y de su legendario cantante Freddie Mercury, desde sus inicios hasta el histórico concierto Live Aid de 1985. La película es un homenaje a la música y a la personalidad de Mercury, que se enfrentó a los prejuicios y a las dificultades de su época con talento, carisma y rebeldía. La película está dirigida por Bryan Singer, con un guion de Anthony McCarten y Peter Morgan. El actor Rami Malek interpreta a Freddie Mercury con una impresionante transformación física y vocal, que le valió el Oscar al mejor actor en 2019. El reparto también incluye a Gwilym Lee como Brian May, Ben Hardy como Roger Taylor, Joseph Mazzello como John Deacon, Lucy Boynton como Mary Austin y Mike Myers como Ray Foster. Bohemian Rhapsody es una película que emociona y entretiene a los fans de Queen y a los amantes del cine. La película recrea con fidelidad y espectacularidad los momentos más importantes de la carrera de la banda, como la grabación del icónico tema que da título a la película, las giras mundiales, las tensiones internas y el triunfal regreso al escenario en el Live Aid. La película también muestra el lado más íntimo y humano de Mercury, sus relaciones afectivas, su lucha contra el sida y su legado musical. Bohemian Rhapsody es una película que merece la pena ver y escuchar, ya que cuenta con una banda sonora que incluye los grandes éxitos de Queen y con una interpretación magistral de Rami Malek. La película es un tributo a uno de los artistas más influyentes y queridos de la historia del rock. Antena Historia te regala 30 días PREMIUM, para que lo disfrutes https://www.ivoox.com/premium?affiliate-code=b4688a50868967db9ca413741a54cea5 Produce Antonio Cruz Edita ANTENA HISTORIA Antena Historia (podcast) forma parte del sello iVoox Originals web……….https://antenahistoria.com/ correo.....info@antenahistoria.com Facebook…..Antena Historia Podcast | Facebook Twitter…...https://twitter.com/AntenaHistoria Telegram…...https://t.me/foroantenahistoria DONACIONES PAYPAL...... https://paypal.me/ancrume ¿QUIERES ANUNCIARTE en ANTENA HISTORIA?, menciones, cuñas publicitarias, programas personalizados, etc. Dirígete a Antena Historia - AdVoices Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In our first series, we'll be covering the life of an often forgotten character in history named Mabel Dodge Luhan. An American writer, advocate for Native American rights, and patron of the arts, Mabel spent the later half of her life in Taos, New Mexico, where she established something of an art retreat that helped inspire artists like Georgia O'Keefe, Ansel Adams, Willa Cather, Mary Austin, Marsden Hatley, Andrew Dasberg, and D.H. Lawrence. Join us in this five-part series as we explore the adventurous, passionate, and often times hilarious life of Mabel Dodge Luhan. 

If we were to title this episode we'd call it "Brian May got his way!" I Go Crazy is a discarded idea from the Hot Space sessions that Brian revamped for The Works, but alas, John, Freddie, and Roger simply we're crazy about it (you see what I did there?) and consigned it to the B-side of Radio Gaga. The Cardinal of the Church of Go Fuck Yourself delivers a sermon in his church, Metallica make a shocking appearance, and the boys talk about Mary Austin selling Freddie's possessions at auction. It's another very silly hour and we hope you enjoy it.Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the last episode and left us some comments on Twitter and Facebook! We'll always try to answer any questions you have and seriously appreciate any corrections you make to anything we get wrong. And thanks so much for all your support as usual. We're loving diving into the Queen fandom a little more deeply as much as we're enjoying recording the podcasts!Huge thanks to Corey Morrissette and Mark Camire for letting us copy and paste the format from their gold-standard podcast; And the Podcast Will Rock. You can find them at @PodcastWillRock on Twitter. Follow us onTwitter: @queenseasideFacebook: @seasidepodreview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Bent News #56, a sweet update for your Friday! -Confirmed source: Aerosmith planning farewell tour! -Little Richard documentary in theaters now! -Syd Barrett documentary hitting UK cinemas on May 15th! -Black Keys working on their new album! -Pearl Jam announces short tour with non-transferrable tickets! -Roger Waters wins fight to play Frankfurt! -U2: The Sphere, more sonic details! -Motorhead to release Live At Montreux '07! -Alice Cooper prepping extended releases of Killer and School's Out! -Mary Austin planning auction of Freddie Mercury's collections! -Fan defiles Beach Boys classic with AI! -Lost Frank Zappa album discovered, set for release! -RIPs: the great Harry Belafonte, and Mark Stewart of The Pop Group! MONDAY: The Police!!! When you want to hear any episode of the podcast, click here: https://imbalancedhistory.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Bent News #56, a sweet update for your Friday! -Confirmed source: Aerosmith planning farewell tour! -Little Richard documentary in theaters now! -Syd Barrett documentary hitting UK cinemas on May 15th! -Black Keys working on their new album! -Pearl Jam announces short tour with non-transferrable tickets! -Roger Waters wins fight to play Frankfurt! -U2: The Sphere, more sonic details! -Motorhead to release Live At Montreux '07! -Alice Cooper prepping extended releases of Killer and School's Out! -Mary Austin planning auction of Freddie Mercury's collections! -Fan defiles Beach Boys classic with AI! -Lost Frank Zappa album discovered, set for release! -RIPs: the great Harry Belafonte, and Mark Stewart of The Pop Group! MONDAY: The Police!!! When you want to hear any episode of the podcast, click here: https://imbalancedhistory.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary Austin versteigert Gegenstände aus Freddie Mercury Villa bei Sotheby´s

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As the era-defining singer, songwriter and front man of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's life story is bursting with great romances. And none were greater than his last - those picturesque and peaceful final years, spent with Irishman Jim Hutton at the idyllic Garden Lodge.  But Freddie's romantic life was complex and nuanced, and dominated by two great and enduring loves. The man who nursed him on his death bed and the woman who inherited his fortune. For the seven years leading up to his death, hunky Irish hairdresser Jim Hutton was by his side. Jim was Freddie's life partner and the man who cared for him in his final days.  But there was also Mary Austin, Freddie's best friend, one-time fiancée and eventually the beneficiary of much of his estate, and the only person who knows where the star's remains were laid to rest. Why did Mary kick Jim out of Freddie's house? And how did Jim turn down Freddie Mercury, the most beloved rockstar on the planet, when they first met in a nightclub in the 80s?  +++ Hooked, Hitched & Hung Up is an iHeartPodcasts Australia, Deadset Studios and the KIIS network. Hosted by Laura Byrne and Britt Hockley. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land on which this show was made.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the era-defining singer, songwriter and front man of rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's life story is bursting with great romances. And none were greater than his last - those picturesque and peaceful final years, spent with Irishman Jim Hutton at the idyllic Garden Lodge.   But Freddie's romantic life was complex and nuanced, and dominated by two great and enduring loves.  The man who nursed him on his death bed and the woman who inherited his fortune.  For the seven years leading up to his death, hunky Irish hairdresser Jim Hutton was by his side. Jim was Freddie's life partner and the man who cared for him in his final days.   But there was also Mary Austin, Freddie's best friend, one-time fiancée and eventually the beneficiary of much of his estate, and the only person who knows where the star's remains were laid to rest.  Why did Mary kick Jim out of Freddie's house? And how did Jim turn down Freddie Mercury, the most beloved rockstar on the planet, when they first met in a nightclub in the 80s?   +++  Hooked, Hitched & Hung Up is an iHeartPodcasts Australia, Deadset Studios and the KIIS network.  Hosted by Laura Byrne and Britt Hockley.  We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the land on which this show was made.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

País Estados Unidos Dirección George Tillman Jr. Guion Craig Bolotin. Novela: Nicholas Sparks Música Mark Isham Fotografía David Tattersall Reparto Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Oona Chaplin, Melissa Benoist, Jack Huston, Lolita Davidovich, Amber Chaney, Tommy Brown, Gloria Reuben, Mary Austin, Brenda Moss-Clifton, Perry Ball, Kimberly Hester Huffstetler Sinopsis Historia de amor en Carolina del Norte entre el joven cowboy Luke Collins, un antiguo campeón de rodeo en plena vuelta a la competición tras una lesión, y Sophia, una estudiante universitaria a punto de embarcarse en unos meses en su gran sueño: trabajar en en el mundo del arte en Nueva York. En su primera cita Luke y Sophia rescatarán de un accidente a Ira Levinson, un veterano viudo que añora el gran amor de su vida: Ruth.

This week I catch up with two of my friends, Mary Austin Hall and Alex Wolf. These two sister have very different stories but now work together for a nonprofit organization called Hope Heals. Follow Mary's journey to become a Nurse Practitioner whose love and care for her patients in the hospital prepared her for loving a caring for the disabled. Next find out how Alex got involved into the world of graphic design. This career has literally taken her around the world. Now she is the Graphic Designer for Hope Heals. Mary Austin and Alex have really good advice for students wondering what to do after high school. Enjoy!

Él tuvo mil amantes (probablemente nos quedemos cortos), pero un gran amor verdadero: Mary Austin. Toda una historia de amor digna de ser recordada. "𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓶𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮" El amor es como el aire, no se ve pero se siente. #podcast #podcasting #Albacete 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓼 𝓹𝓸𝓻 𝓵𝓸𝓼 ❤️ Si tienes alguna historia para compartir y guardar en esta humilde cápsula temporal. Ya sabes, escríbeme un comentario en Ivoox, manda un correo a thememorybacup@gmail.com o si lo prefieres en https://memorybackups.blogspot.com/ tendrás todas las herramientas para escuchar o ponerte en contacto conmigo. Gracias por estar al otro lado.

This week we are joined by one of my faves, actress Lucy Boynton!Believe it or not, Lucy started acting at the age of 12 alongside Renée Zellweger as a young Beatrix Potter in ‘Miss Potter' - god, that film made me sob, YOU? She then went on to star in Kenneth Brannagh's reboot of Poirot, ‘Murder on the Orient Express' next to Judi Dench, Olivia Colman, and Michelle Pfieffer. She then stole the scene as Astrid in my fave Netflix show, ‘The Politican' next to Gwyneth Paltrow, and played the girlfriend and soulmate of Freddie Mercury, Mary Austin in the Oscar winning ‘Bohemian Rhapsody' next to her real-life love, Rami Malek. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody' also became the highest grossing biopic movie of all time too, casual! Lucy is now starring as the stunning sixties spy, Jean, alongside Joe Cole in ‘The Ipcress File', the television remake of the classic Michael Kane Cold War movie of the same name, which is on ITV Hub. She's also starring alongside Will Poulter, Emma Thompson and Jim Broadbent as the sassy heiress turned amateur sleuth Frankie, in Hugh Laurie's adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic ‘Why Didn't They Ask Evans?' which is on BritBox. And if she wasn't busy enough, Lucy will be back on our cinema screens later this year playing Marie Antoinette in ‘Chevalier', a film about the composer, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr. Chevalier was the ‘illegitimate' son of an African slave and a French plantation owner who rose to the heights of French society as a violinist, composer and a champion fencer. But after an ill-fated love affair with a French noblewoman and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court, he suffered a downfall from favour. With all of that to talk about, Lucy joins me for a very open and honest conversation. In the episode Lucy talks about her journey with mental health, just how game changing going to therapy was for her and the lessons she has learnt from her therapist. It's advice I think we could all do with taking TBH! Lucy also talks about defining our self worth away from external sources of validation, and calls BS on outdated sexist stereotypes, namely the idea of the ‘angry woman,' who's with us?!? I hope you take just as much away from this episode as I did and I hope you continue to listen and find the power to Reign in your own lives. If you love this episode, please get in touch (follow me across social media @joshsmithhosts), I love hearing from you. Love, Josh xxxP.S I AM SO EXCITED THAT WE ARE PARTNERING WITH ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SKINCARE BRANDS, KIEHL'S, FOR THIS SERIES OF REIGN!I created Reign to celebrate women and start important conversations about equality and I am proud to partner with Kiehl's who have done the same for over 170 years by supporting local communities through multiple charity partnerships.In the spirit of feeling like our best selves, Kiehl's have introduced a new cream formulation of their best selling Midnight Recovery Oil! Say hello to the Midnight Recovery Omega Rich Cloud Cream, which will not only help your skin look plumped, nourished and radiant, it will empower you to feel FABULOUS and take on anything!It's rich in Omegas 3 and 6 which help replenish and rejuvenate skin, and with it only taking 7 nights to younger looking skin - I'll race you to the nearest Kiehl's store! Or you can shop on kiehls.co.uk

Tonight's reading comes from Outland. Written by Mary Austin and published in 1910, this book will take you to nature while you slowly drift off. My name is Teddy and I aim to help people everywhere get a good night's rest. Sleep is so important and my mission is to help you get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the background while you slowly fall asleep. Thank you to everyone who shared their words of gratitude with me, during the week. If you would like, you can also say hello at Boreyoutosleep.com where you can support the podcast. I'm also on Twitter and Instagram @BoreYouToSleep. You can also find me on Facebook by searching Bore you to Sleep Podcast. In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the readings. Sincerely. Teddy --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/boreyoutosleep/support

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1568 Birth of Henry Wotton, English writer, diplomat, and politician. Henry celebrated our relationships with gardens and landscapes. He especially enjoyed gardens that made one think or offered a surprise. Henry served as an Ambassador to Venice, and during his time there, he fell in love with Italian gardens. Henry's concept of a "garden of surprise" was inspired by the gardens he saw in Italy. In his Elements of Architecture (1624), Henry discusses what it was like to walk through an Italian garden: I have seen a garden into which the first [entry point] was a high walk like a [terrace], from whence might be taken a general view of the whole plot below, but rather in a delightful confusion... From this the Beholder descending any steps, was afterwards conveyed again... to various entertainments of his [scent] and sight... every one of these diversities, was as if he had [been] magically transported to a new garden.   1844 Birth of Paul-Marie Verlaine, French poet.  He's remembered for his work with the Symbolist and Decadent movements. His poem, Clair de Lune, begins with the line, "Your soul is a sealed garden," and inspired Claude Debussy ("deh·byoo·see") to write his own 'Clair de lune, the work for which he is now most famous.  Paul once wrote, Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.   1853 Birth of Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter.  After his death, he became a top-selling figure in the history of Western art. Bold colors and brushwork characterized his work. Vincent found inspiration in the natural world, and he once said,  If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Vincent was also a lover of flowers and gardens, and he also said, For one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing. At the end of his life, Van Gogh suffered from depression, an unsuccessful painting career, and poverty. He committed a slow and painful suicide at 37 by shooting himself in the chest.  He died two days later beside a stack of his sunflower canvases. He said his last words to his brother Theo, The sadness will last forever. The legacy of Van Gogh's 2,100 pieces of art was much brighter than he ever expected. In March of 1987, his painting titled Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers was sold by Sotheby's in London for $39.85 million, more than three times the highest price ever paid at the time for a painting at auction.   2003 On this day, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram shared an article called, What's in a name? Deciding the name of every plant could take decades and require a huge effort by Stephanie Simon. The article revealed that  the Missouri Botanical Garden is teaming up with botanists worldwide on a 10-year $100-million effort to standardize plant names. The article shared the forecast for finishing the project, saying the project's leaders' plans for... the database [is] “45 compiler years.” One note says “52 imager years.”  At the bottom there's a final tally: They will need a staff of 32 for at least a decade just to compile and input the information.  That's not counting the botanists who will do all the research Missouri scientists will be working in formal collaboration with the two other top botanical research centers in the world: the New York Botanical Garden and the Kew Botanical Gardens near London. Incredibly, the project was completed way ahead of schedule at the end of 2010. At the time, The Plant List included 1.25 million scientific plant names.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Writing Wild by Kathryn Aalto This book came out in the summer of 2020, and the subtitle is Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World. This is such a good book, and I've been waiting to recommend it on the show. Kathryn herself was inspired to write this book after stumbling on a book written with all-male voices. Kathryn wanted to find the female voices and add their perspective on the natural world. In all, there are about 75 women that are talked about in Kathryn's book. Now, the goal behind curating all of these pieces was to help us deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. Some of these writers are some of my old favorites, like Mary Oliver, Vita Sackville West, Mary Austin, Susan Fenimore Cooper. But then there are also new voices like Helen MacDonald, Andrea Wulf, Amy Liptrot, and Elizabeth Rush. There are 25 of these women whose works are shared in full in this book. I love what Kathryn wrote in the introduction. She says, Much of this book was researched and penned outside - mountain climbing, mudlarking, canoeing, beachcombing, gardening, hiking, and birdwatching. I retraced the footsteps of those who have passed on, some of whom wrote anonymously or were chastised for daring to venture off without male chaperones. I walked and talked with living authors. I read original 19th-century journals, letters, essays, and books. I held tangible personal objects. I searched the faces and old photographs. I listened to historians, archivists, and experts. I attended live author readings and listened to recordings. I passed through 200 years of women's history through nature writing. Remarkable. Compilation books like this are excellent because Kathryn has done the heavy lifting for us. She has sifted through all of this nature writing, and she has brought us the best of the best - an excellent sampling of women writing about nature over the past two centuries. I simply have to share two beautiful quotes that Kathryn includes at the top of the book. The first is from Willa Cather in her 1913 book O Pioneers! She wrote,  Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for over thousands of years.  And then there's this beautiful quote by Emily Dickinson in an 1885 letter that she wrote to Eugenia Hall. I hope you love Birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.  This book is chock full of great insights, quotes, and readings from women as marvelous as Willa Cather and Emily Dickinson. This book is 288 pages of women finding joy in nature and then writing about it and sharing it.  You can get a copy of Writing Wild by Kathryn Aalto and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $6.   Botanic Spark 1918 On this day, The Oregon Daily Journal out of Portland, Oregon, shared a front-page story with the headline, SLACKER IF HE PUTS BASEBALL STARTING TIME BACK ONE HOUR. President Pack of National War Garden Commission Severely Criticises [Baseball] Club Owner Who Plans to Add Extra Hour of Daylight That Could Be Used in Garden Work. Charles Lathrop-Pack was president of the national war garden commission and was against baseball teams who were planning to change the start time of their games to take advantage of the brand new daylight saving plan. Pack said, A move like this will take thousands of hours of time from gardens. It will doubtless mean many extra dollars in the box office, but it is certainly a violation of the spirit of the law. In other media, Charles reminded both leagues that,  [the] law was intended to increase the daylight usefulness in war work, and was not intended to give extra hours for recreation...  Slackers of the worst type is the brand placed upon baseball league owners or managers who plan to move down the scheduled time of starting games this Summer. But the historian Michael O'Malley noted in his book Keeping Watch (1996) that as president of the War Garden Commission, Charles Lathrop Pack was essentially the head of [a] lobbying organization for the makers of garden products—tools, seeds, fertilizers, canning, and preserving equipment... [and he] stood to gain dramatically from any increase in wartime gardening.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

On ne l'a pas vu en public depuis 9 mois, depuis que le groupe Queen s'est vu sacré meilleur groupe anglais de la décennie 80 aux Brit Awards. Depuis, les rumeurs sur sa maladie qui circulent depuis 4 ans déjà ont redoublé, mais l'information ne cesse d'être vivement démentie : Non, Freddie Mercury ne souffre pas du Sida. Alors pourquoi personne ne l'entend, pourquoi personne ne le voit ? En réalité, Freddie Mercury vit ses derniers instants, dans les bras de ses deux amours : Mary Austin, celle qui l'a connu en 1969 aux balbutiements de sa carrière et Jim Hutton, celui qui partage sa vie depuis 7 ans. Ecoutez Jour J avec Flavie Flament du 17 février 2022

On ne l'a pas vu en public depuis 9 mois, depuis que le groupe Queen s'est vu sacré meilleur groupe anglais de la décennie 80 aux Brit Awards. Depuis, les rumeurs sur sa maladie qui circulent depuis 4 ans déjà ont redoublé, mais l'information ne cesse d'être vivement démentie : Non, Freddie Mercury ne souffre pas du Sida. Alors pourquoi personne ne l'entend, pourquoi personne ne le voit ? En réalité, Freddie Mercury vit ses derniers instants, dans les bras de ses deux amours : Mary Austin, celle qui l'a connu en 1969 aux balbutiements de sa carrière et Jim Hutton, celui qui partage sa vie depuis 7 ans. Ecoutez Jour J avec Flavie Flament du 17 février 2022.

En este episodio del podcast El Recuento Musical repasamos la historia y las versiones de esta canción de Queen que fue escrita por Freddie Mercury y decicada a Mary Austin. Es el AMOR con mayusculas. - Para conocer las canciones que suenan en el episodio visita mi web: https://quesuenelabocina.com/love-of-my-life-queen-freddie-mercury-mary-austin/- Para apoyar este podcast con tus aportaciones: https://quesuenelabocina.com/yoapoyoelrecuentomusical/- Para escuchar los episodios sin publicidad suscríbete en Apple Podcast. https://apple.co/3KjZKHA

Hear how these female business owners and sisters began their entrepreneurial journey to open a co-working space dedicated to women. Orchard House gives women a place to grow.Bio: Mary Austin Hall and Alex Wolf are sisters, best friends, and business partners living in Birmingham, Alabama. Mary Austin's professional background in medicine and Alex's career in the disability non-profit sector—combined with a family penchant for entrepreneurialism—have led them to pursue various endeavors in commercial and residential real estate. In 2020 they founded Orchard House, Birmingham's first and only women-focused shared workspace. You can find out more about Orchard House at orchardhousebham.com and follow us on Instagram at @orchardhouse.bham.HostSK VaughnHoliday Giveaway!!!How to Win- Rate- Review- Subscribe to The Ladies Who Lead on Apple PodcastsWhat You Will WinEach person who rates, reviews, and subscribes between Now - December 25 2021 will win a Starbucks gift card. Enjoy coffee on us this holiday season! Limited to one entry per person. Click here to participate!Resources6 Keys to SuccessDefining Success on Your Own TermsLet's ConnectInstagram |  Newsletter | WebsiteSpecial Shout Out:Big thanks to Memory Smith for the Artwork.View her work here!

"God Save The Queen" (Parte 2) 30 años se cumplen de la muerte de Freddie Mercury y su música sigue siendo la banda sonora de la vida de varias generaciones. La estrella que estuvo al frente de Queen desde 1970 hasta su muerte en 1991 a los 45 años y a causa de una bronconeumonía tras haber sido diagnosticado de VIH, desafió muchos de los cánones predominantes del pop y del rock y rompió con creatividad los límites artísticos, asumió riesgos que trascendieron lo musical y que lo convirtieron en una figura tan adorada como vulnerable. Freddie pensaba que una vez que no pudiera grabar más, sería el fin. Porque sin la música no podía enfrentar la enfermedad”, relató tiempo después Mary Austin, testigo de la infatigable pasión por el trabajo del cantante. Y agregó: “Entonces decidió que era el momento de partir”. Los que lo acompañaron en su agonía respaldaron estos dichos: Freddie pidió no tomar más la batería de medicinas que lo mantenían en pie porque su calidad de vida era casi nula. - - Somos @ruta89radio síguenos en las redes y escúchanos en las plataformas de streaming y emisoras aliadas, comenta, dale like y comparte estos especiales con todos aquellos a quienes les gusta la buena música #Rock #Pop #80s #90s. Descarga nuestros programas desde ivoox.

"God Save The Queen" (Parte 2) 30 años se cumplen de la muerte de Freddie Mercury y su música sigue siendo la banda sonora de la vida de varias generaciones. La estrella que estuvo al frente de Queen desde 1970 hasta su muerte en 1991 a los 45 años y a causa de una bronconeumonía tras haber sido diagnosticado de VIH, desafió muchos de los cánones predominantes del pop y del rock y rompió con creatividad los límites artísticos, asumió riesgos que trascendieron lo musical y que lo convirtieron en una figura tan adorada como vulnerable. Freddie pensaba que una vez que no pudiera grabar más, sería el fin. Porque sin la música no podía enfrentar la enfermedad”, relató tiempo después Mary Austin, testigo de la infatigable pasión por el trabajo del cantante. Y agregó: “Entonces decidió que era el momento de partir”. Los que lo acompañaron en su agonía respaldaron estos dichos: Freddie pidió no tomar más la batería de medicinas que lo mantenían en pie porque su calidad de vida era casi nula. - - Somos @ruta89radio síguenos en las redes y escúchanos en las plataformas de streaming y emisoras aliadas, comenta, dale like y comparte estos especiales con todos aquellos a quienes les gusta la buena música #Rock #Pop #80s #90s. Descarga nuestros programas desde ivoox.

The truth behind Freddie Mercury's complex romantic relationships. WHO - OR WHAT - WAS THE REAL LOVE OF FREDDIE MERCURY'S LIFE? Millions of Queen and screen fans who watched the Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody believe that Mary Austin, the woman he could never quite let go of, was the love of Freddie Mercury's life. But the truth is infinitely more complicated. Best-selling biographer and music writer Lesley-Ann Jones explores the charismatic frontman's romantic encounters, from his boarding school years in Panchgani, India to his tragic, final, bed-ridden days in his magnificent London mansion. She reveals why none of his love interests ever perfected the art of being Freddie's life partner. In Love of My Life, the author follows him through his obsessions with former shop girl Mary, German actress Barbara Valentin and Irish-born barber boyfriend Jim Hutton. She explores his adoration of globally feted Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé. She delves into his intimate friendship with Elton John, and probes his imperishable bonds with his fellow band members. She deconstructs his complicated relationship with the 'food of love' - his music - and examines closely his voracious appetite for - what some would call his fatal addiction to - sex. Which of these was the real love of Freddie Mercury's life? Was any of them? Drawing on personal interviews and first-hand encounters, this moving audiobook brings to the fore a host of Freddie's lesser-known loves, weaving them in and out of the passions that consumed him. The result is a mesmerising portrait of a legendary rock star. Love of My Life, published during the year of the 30th anniversary of his death and that would have seen his 75th birthday, is Lesley-Ann's personal and compassionate tribute to an artist she has revered for as long as she has written about music and musicians.

Summary: The whole world knows Freddie Mercury as a bright and self-confident artist. However, there is only one woman who knew him when the surname Mercury was still unknown. She was also the one who stayed by his side when his illness defeated him. Mary Austin was Freddie Mercury's common-law wife and his only friend. Now I've heard everything is a fan of the band Queen and of Freddie Mercury's music. We're also suckers for a good romantic story. So today we're dedicating our podcast to the love story and deep friendship between a simple girl and a world famous musician. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Faith Women podcast, you'll be introduced to Mary Austin, a member of the Faith Women team at Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville, NC. You can learn more about Faith Women at faithnc.org/women. Thanks for joining us!

On Todays Podcast: Torrey discusses 911 Diversion Program being Implemented in Baltimore city, Deputy Mayor Sunny Schnitzer joins the show to explain. Also Torrey Highlights Nurses Day when Mary Austin from Saint Agnes Hospital joins the program.

Kris spent a decade in TV news before starting Tight Line Media in 2006. Her first book, My Place Among Men, is available now and her most recent film Ocean to Idaho capturing the migration of thousands of salmon on their return from the Oregon coast to the Idaho wilderness premieres this Summer and you can see the trailer at tightlinemedia.com. Facebook Twitter Instagram   The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Please give us a rating and review HERE Show Notes Tightline Media Ocean to Idaho My Place Among Men OWAA Intro to Outdoors I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Wasatch mountains were my playground and I always felt comfortable outside. I didn't grow up hunting with my dad. I didn't grow up fishing with my dad. I grew up hiking with my dad. And my dad is forever lost. He doesn't have an internal compass. My mom says I don't have a danger gene, which is probably true, but my dad doesn't have an internal compass. And so we would wander endlessly and he would never admit he was lost. But, I found that by following his dusty frame down a little trail forever and ever, that I learned patience, persistence, resilience, and all those things helped me do my job today. I would just follow him when I was little. I didn't question if we were lost, but I knew darn well we were, and as I got older, I figured that out, but I still knew lost or not that I was comfortable outside. That's where I feel at home. Advice All right. So when it comes to the outdoor business, I have a pretty interesting take on it. And it comes from two and a half decades of watching our industry shift. And I'm just so impressed by what I see within our industry as things shift and what matters now, and the way to come at this business. If I were coming at it now would be to look at it from the user's perspective in every way. And that is because the way we value our natural resources has made a dramatic shift in the last century. And you can see it in the way that outdoor users lay out their expectations and those users are your customers. So a century ago we were, we were mining, logging. Resources to us were, what do we get out of them? What can they do for us with a dollar sign? Now, look at where we're at today. They're still mining, logging, drilling, developing a little bit of damming and all that still going on, but you know what? Now there's a seat at the table for that natural resource as it is. Natural resources hold a value for what they offer us as they are. Or in many cases that you see today as they will be, as they're put back together, that has a value. Now our natural resources hold, hold value beyond the dollar. And when your customers start realizing natural resources, hold value beyond the dollar, The way to connect to them is to also value those natural resources beyond the dollar. Favorite Book Oh the Places you'll Go by Dr. Seuss Favorite Outdoor Gear My favorite piece of outdoor gear pushes the hundred dollars mark, pretty hard, but I think it's still worth it. It's trail running shoes. So, I've tried different brands. And it just kind of depends on what kind. I think it all comes down to cushion. I used to run barefoot, so I'm a minimalist. Kris' Ask Stick your feet in the river, any river, the closest one you can get to. People say they don't have the access to the outdoors, but you know, don't you drink water and that water is coming from somewhere. It's fine. Find flowing water and stick your feet in it. It just makes that connection to our outdoor world. Connect with Kris: Tightline Media   09:18 - 09:23 Mon Teaser 01:43 - 02:38 Intro to Outdoors 41:18 - 43:09 Advice   Transcription Welcome to the outdoor biz podcast. Your home for inspiring conversations with outdoor insiders each week. Author speaker adventurer and outdoor industry veteran Rick Saez. Rick talks in depth with iconic brand founders, sales and marketing pros, product designers and industry rising stars. Listen in when Rick's guests offer actionable advice to land your ideal industry gig and grow your outdoor career. [00:00:27] Catch us again when the conversation shifts to the hottest outdoor products destinations and the latest industry insights. And now here's Rick episode, 256 of the outdoor biz podcast with Tightline media CEO. Chris Milkie brought to you this month by audible crisp in a decade and TV news before starting Tightline media in 2006. [00:00:50] Her first book, my place among men is available now at her most recent film ocean to Idaho capturing the migration of thousands of salmon on their return from the Oregon coast to the Idaho wilderness premieres. This summer, you can see the trailer@tightlinemedia.com. Welcome to the show, Chris. Thanks for having me. [00:01:06] Yeah. Good to chat with you this morning. What's happening in your world today? Uh, today the sun's out. We have snow on the ground, but, um, and it as we should, this time of year in Idaho, so yeah. We like that. That's a good thing. Yeah. That's a good thing. That means is there's a little moisture to fill the rivers again, as the cycle goes. [00:01:25] Yes. As it goes, we want those rivers full. Yeah. We need that hair too. I'm in Bishop and it's a pretty dry land of little rain as Mary Austin dubbed it. What, uh, what triggered your love for the outdoors and adventure that started at a young age? From what I can tell through your bio? I grew up in salt Lake city, Utah, the Wasatch mountains were my playground and I always felt comfortable outside. [00:01:53] And I recognized that at an early age and I, I didn't grow up hunting with my dad. I didn't grow up fishing with my dad. I grew up hiking with my dad. And my dad is forever lost. So when you like, yeah, that's a direction a right. Yeah. He doesn't have an internal compass. My mom says I don't have a danger gene, which is probably true, but my dad doesn't have an internal compass. [00:02:17] And so we would wander endlessly and he would never admit he was lost. But, uh, I found that by following his dusty frame down a little trail forever and ever. That I learned patience, persistence and resilience and resilience and all those things helped me do my job today. Yeah. But yeah, I would just follow them when I was little. [00:02:41] I did question if we were lost, but I knew darn well, we were, and I, as I got older, I figured that out, but I still. New last or not that I was comfortable outside. That's where I feel home. That's very cool. Do you have any, what did you get in any really major, uh, lost events like you had to spend the night or, you know, it took you all night to get home any of that kind of stuff? [00:03:02] Um, I think, well, as far as last goes, I kept, I don't remember. I was like needing a rescue now, uh, on a trail race recently they pulled the flags ahead of me and yes, I did get legitimately lost and it took. Uh, some, some people on the ground coming to find me, cause I went in the wrong direction, but when I was little and there was nothing serious like that, I do remember. [00:03:27] Hiking in the high you winters. And there was nobody there. And we came across in one day during one hike, um, this metal with about five bull moose laying down in it. And I've always remembered that thinking, this is it. This is like what you're going to see every time you hike. And that's not the case. [00:03:46] Right. But, you know, thank goodness he was lost. We saw amazing things and I have no idea of how to get to that spot now. And he probably doesn't either, but yeah, because we kind of wandered, we found some amazing places and in that same trip, we also got stuck in the pouring rain. And I remember throwing everything. [00:04:06] Into the truck soaking wet and leaving in the middle of the night because we were drowning lost you, you find some pretty cool stuff it's getting lost is not always a bad thing. Yeah. And so your bio also says, uh, you had a fear of men and beards talk a little bit about that. So I spent a lot of time hiking with my dad without that danger deem that my mom says I don't want to have. [00:04:35] My dad did not have a beard growing up. It was a clean shaven household, but I, uh, as long as I've been comfortable outside, I've always also been afraid of beards. It's just like being born left-handed I was born and as I got older, I kind of figured out why I was painfully shy and I didn't want to talk to anybody, but with a beard. [00:04:57] For sure. It was out of the question. Yeah. And now that I'm older and I've had time to kind of think through it, I've figured out what it is when I was younger, I studied people. I wanted to know what made them tick. What, what worked in there. Speaking of style. What did it do? You know? I knew I was going to be a storyteller and as a storyteller, I needed to be able to ask questions and get over being shy. [00:05:21] So I would study people. So when I was shy and I would look away because I didn't want you to look at me, I would still study you. And if you had a beard, I couldn't see your facial expressions. And so, uh, as a child, you have to realize what that means. Just like the kids that are dealing with faces that have masks over them. [00:05:39] Now, a beer to me was kind of like a mask and I couldn't read that person's character. I felt like they had something to hide because they were hiding under hair. And so that made me think that there was something hippy. No, no. I run around with beards in the woods all the time, and I realized that the beard does not determine the character, but when I was little, I thought they were hiding something with all that hair. [00:06:03] Yeah. When you're a little kid, it's interesting how you respond to some of the different, you know, looks or facial expressions too. Sometimes it just doesn't mean what you think it means. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. And so much of that is lost, you know, if we get into this pandemic and like, okay, we can make these adjustments, but. [00:06:19] Much lost in our face when we can not see half of it when we have a discussion. Yeah. Yeah. So much is lost. You see a lot in the eyes, but not all of it. You got to eat that whole face. Yeah. Have you tested how much you have to smile with a mask on before your eyes? It's ridiculous. Yeah. I find myself smiling a lot more to just a guy getting my eyes sparkle, you know, so people know I'm not mad at them. [00:06:42] Right. If you were to take that mask off, it's a goofy grin. Right. Fully showing exactly what it to meet your eyes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You have to put a big old smile on that's, right? Yeah. Yeah. How did your writing career get started? Did that start at a young age? Yes, I started writing. Um, yeah, I remember even in elementary school I could always write, I like English. [00:07:03] I understood sentence structure. I understood what worked and how to break it apart and make it work even better. And then through junior high and high school that kind of carried through and you take that test in high school that says here's what you should be when you grow up. Right. And of course, mine said communicator, and of course, Everyone laughed at that. [00:07:20] How was the shy girl going to be a reporter? That's ridiculous. Yeah, but I knew what I was going to be. And I was going to figure out how to get over all my quirks and had to be a storyteller. So I knew my major when I went to college, it was broadcast journalism. I was going to tell you stories on TV and the 10 o'clock news. [00:07:41] And I never, I never wavered from that. I could always write. And that was my strong point. I learned to shoot. I learned to read script in a voice that sounds like we're talking and not reading or there's all these little nuances to it. Yeah. And then I worked for TV stations for a decade, one TV station, another around the country. [00:08:00] And the whole point was to get to a bigger market. And, you know, I came from salt Lake city. That's a big TV market. I wanted to get back there. Yeah. And then as I moved around, well, you know, my job was great, but my lifestyle sucked and I worked at 11 o'clock at night and yeah. You know, my husband didn't like in us, some of the places that we live. [00:08:18] And so right about the time that the internet was, you know, born, I realized all the mediums were going to mesh. And so after 10 years of TV contracts, I went freelance. And what that did for me was instead of just working for one TV station, I could work for all of them. And I could work for newspaper magazine, radio, web. [00:08:42] I could work for all of them. Because I could always write, I could write for any medium and because I could shoot, I knew how to frame up a shot for video ads for photo and what needed. I understood the specs for laying it out in paper versus on screen. And so everything kind of translated really well for me. [00:09:03] But the basic was, I always knew how to write. I have an obsession with words I'm terrible with numbers. Don't make me do math, but I can write you an essay all day long. And I'm always playing with words in my head. And so, uh, my brother and sister always teach me that I have my own alphabet and I have, since I was little. [00:09:24] So that's kind of been my saving grace, where I could always write about anything for any medium. And that has kind of evolved into where I'm at now with Tightline media as a freelancer fortunate too, that you you'd recognize that early on. I mean, that's huge too, to know that. Yeah. What inspired you to pick up a camera? [00:09:43] The inspiration for picking up the camera came. When I realized that while I had all of these words and I could put them in perfect order, there was a visual component. I wanted to see what went with those words. And that's why I chose the video TV medium. When I did right from the get-go video is my base. [00:10:00] That's my primary world. And when you see nowadays, there's a lot of films with a lot of slow-mo in them. I think the reason we're seeing that slow Mo happen in film is because you have a lot of still photographers shooting videos, and they're shooting those videos with a still camera. And they're used to thinking in a single frame of still interesting. [00:10:22] And I come from the brain, that's used to seeing action and I want things to happen in real time. And we don't move in slow mode. So rarely will I put Mo in my videos. Right. And then. Having that base of video be my world. It was a pretty easy transition to learn how to shoot photo I've shot video for twenty-five years, I've shot photo for 15. [00:10:47] And I had, I had no problem taking a class from a professional pre-talk photographer to teach me how to use my camera in manual mode versus auto mode and the class wasn't about framing. I already knew how to frame up subjects and what, how to tell that story. It was about how to use the. Different apertures and shutter speeds. [00:11:07] Yeah. You know, some of that translates between a video camera photo, but not everything. Yeah. Yeah. So I picked that up, but I've always wanted to see what you were showing me and what that means in a story is on video. You know, that the guy that I'm in the fishing boat with is wearing a blue jacket. When I write that for a newspaper or magazine, I have to tell you he's in a blue jacket. [00:11:28] Right? So the writing style is a little different. That's interesting that you picked up on that visual. Where do you think, what do you think triggered that? Is it just the actual experience you had it in telecom? I think that I chose the visual medium right out of the gate, because I've always been. [00:11:46] Obscenely aware of what's going on around me. And I knew at a young age back clear back when I was studying faces that I had that visual, a desire to see what's going on versus spell it out. I've always liked to write, but I didn't want to have to always spell out everything. I wanted you to see it right. [00:12:06] And I can see that in my own kids. Now, you know, when our, when our boys turned 12, they each get a trip with me when they turn 18, they get a trip with my husband. So. When the oldest one turned 12, he chose San Francisco because our boys play hockey and he wanted it to see the black Hawks play the sharks and San Jose. [00:12:26] And we stayed, we stayed in downtown San Francisco in the financial district and he looked just like you and I was little, we walked around downtown. And when you're in a big city, people put on blinders. They don't look at the time. He was probably gobsmacked by all that. It blew him away. And I think that's one of the reasons we do these trips. [00:12:44] We live in Idaho falls. It's pretty small. I want them to be exposed to all different kinds of lifestyles. Right. And you have to go to a different city to get that. And so he was blown away by what he saw. And he said on the first day he said, mom, There's no one looks at each other. There's cement everywhere. [00:13:06] And the only bird I've seen as a pigeon. And so he, I can see that that was totally me. When I was little. I was really aware of how people were not connected with each other and not connected with the world around them. Yeah. Yeah. Still, still to this day, even more so maybe in some places. Yeah. Yeah. And so that's, that's how I was when I was a little and it's really neat to see that in my kids. [00:13:29] That's very cool. Yeah. Where does your entrepreneurial spirit come from? Are there entrepreneurs in your family that I don't have a danger gene, but I might have a crazy gene. What it is. I will say this. Um, my father is. By far the proudest workaholic I've ever known. And I pick up my workaholic, workaholic tendencies from him. [00:13:56] What did he do? Um, he is, uh, you'll love this. My father is an architect, but of a very specific genre. If you walk into a building with my father, he will always look up. And he always looks up because he's looking for the sprinkler heads. Okay. Gotcha. My dad makes sure your building doesn't burn down. [00:14:17] That's good. Yes. And, um, there were several times growing up, we had it, he had a dad in our basement and time and time again, he would start businesses on his own and try to have his own business of sprinkled fire, sprinkler design over and over and over again. And I remember growing up with that. And so when I decided to go freelance, I honestly, I was really hesitant to start tightlining media because my dad had tried so many times to start and I did not want my family relying on me and then me not being able to really start. [00:14:56] And so to be at the, be at the Mark where Tightline media is turning 16 years old. Yeah, I had made it through the recession and the pandemic by the skin of my teeth sometimes, but, but, um, that's significant to me and I also think it's significant to my father. Uh, but I'll bet. Yeah, you started then you're and you're, you know, you haven't finished yet, but you're still going there. [00:15:20] I mean, you got it off the ground. That's I can relate to that with, we talked about this before we turned the mic on about the podcast. I mean, it's in my, I get mine from my grandfather. Same thing. He started, he was always Twinkie, you know? Tinkering with ideas and started this and started that so I can totally relate. [00:15:36] Yep. That's where it is. Interesting. And so tell our listeners about what we've talked a little bit about your TV news career. What did you like most about that? Oh, the storytelling, what I like most about TB was the storytelling, but in TV news, um, I had to learn, I had to learn early on that I needed to create an instant rapport with strangers. [00:15:59] Yeah. You have to have a rapport with somebody before they will talk to you. And if you don't know them, I mean, I'm meeting people, new people every day, and I've got to do a story for live, live story for the five o'clock six o'clock, 10 o'clock, and there's gotta be at least two interviews in that story. [00:16:15] That's six new people a day that I had to develop an instant rapport with and get them to tell me their secret, that easy, you know? And so I liked, uh, I can, I'm intrigued by challenge. I think. That's something that becomes pretty obvious in me. When you talk to me about my work, when you look at my stories, I'm pretty obsessive about what I do and I can, are you out with my, uh, overeager sense of being when it comes to covering the outdoors and doing it in a proper, proper storytelling manner? [00:16:50] And so the idea that I could tell a story. And frankly, tell that story in two minutes, because of a newscast it's gotta be within two minutes, pretty phenomenal. So you don't waste words, you get right to the point. Yeah. That's a great skill. So even when a magazine will say, we need you to write a thousand words, that's a lot. [00:17:10] And a book, 50,000 words, that's a lifetime to me. And when I come from a world of two minutes news, I'm not going to waste any words. So even if you put me on a thousand word magazine story or a 50,000 word book, every single word has purpose in there. There's no fluff because I come from two minutes of news where you did an add any extra fluff. [00:17:35] So do you think it's harder for you to write, like in those big, long magazine articles and books and stuff because of that, or you just have to work harder to, you know, make it a detailed story? I find that writing, um, length longer than 500 words is harder for me. And I know why it's harder. It's because I come from where you did quick, fast turns. [00:17:58] Yeah. You shot at wrote edited the same day, probably within a two to four hour timeframe. And I'm used to that pace. It's hard to get me to slow down and work at a longer pace. Uh, even while magazines that might have, like, you know, they're planning a year out right now. Yeah. If you give me an assignment right now, I want to work on it right now. [00:18:20] I don't want to work on it in may or an August issue. Right. So I've had to learn to pace myself a little better. And I think that's been a good thing to learn because as I've learned to pace myself, I've also learned to tolerate the pieces. And there is no doubt that was in a lengthy piece. You are a stronger writer because you add to it things that you can not fit into many [00:18:47] Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, the story is more important because you put more detail in it. You don't just put fluff in it. It's, it's relevant, very relevant to the story. Whereas a lot of people write these things. It's like, well, you could have said that in three words, you know? So when I wrote my place upon bed, I sent him my first draft and it was 15 one, five, 15,000 words. [00:19:10] Oh, I'm spent, that's like the most I've ever written because the Austin, my editor cut that in half, sent me back. 8,000 words said not good enough. Dig deeper. Yeah. And I had no idea that I had deeper in me, but I did. And it strengthened my writing to a whole new level. That was so obvious that the year my book came out, which was last year, um, all the outlets that I was working for, we said, wow, Your writing has advanced so much. [00:19:43] And I knew exactly why it's because I had to push to reach 50,000 words and make every single word count. And then your writing goals to a whole new level, when you have to meet that type of challenge, and it shows up in all your other work. Yeah, boy, it sticks with it. Yeah. Once you do that, I'll bet he wrote everything. [00:20:01] You're right. Yeah. Well, good on the editor. That was awesome. [00:20:06] So I can take a criticism and then I just suck it up and move on with it, but we'll do it dig in. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah. We're willing to do that in the show notes. That's I look forward to getting that book. Sounds like a great story. Is your time in TV? The inspiration behind Tightline media is that where that came from? [00:20:23] My timing TB was. In a roundabout way and inspiration for Tightline media working, um, you know, about two years at a time under contract for one station or another, I worked for every station, but CBS that's kinda just how it worked out. And so, um, you, you learn a lot about the industry. You work in small markets where you have to do every job from running the teleprompter to editing your own stories, to whatever happens. [00:20:50] It has to happen up by you because small markets, that's how it goes in bigger markets. Everyone fights about who has to do what, because no one wants to do anything. And so that was weird to me. I just wanted to work. I just wanted to tell stories and yeah. And TV. I had to cover crops and crime and whatever else was on the police scanner for the day or down at city hall. [00:21:10] And, uh, I would, I know that from the very beginning, I was always shoving outdoor stories into people's TVs. There was not an outdoor beat, but I wanted there to be. And I know that those stories mattered. It doesn't matter if you hike, bike, hunt, fish, whatever it is you do outside. The reason that opportunity exists is because something's going on, that's conserving our natural resources to the lab to make it so that you can recreate. [00:21:37] And so those stories really matter to me. So I would shove them in your TV anyway, under, and I'd figure out how to make them the top story of the night. It was some kind of news hitch. So by the time I decided to go freelance, Yes. I knew video was going to be my base, but instead of being general assignment, I niched out 95% of what I do is outdoor related. [00:21:59] And that's a conscious decision when I went freelance. It was because I didn't want to cover crops in crime anymore. Yeah. Those still come into my stories. You know, if we've got crime, it's used to poaching wildlife trafficking crops, certainly that matters. We've got deer running through corn fields, right. [00:22:15] So. Those elements still matter. And I liked having to learn how to cover every possible beat. But I wanted to really hit the outdoors. So I, I niched down to that when I started testing. That's pretty smart. That's pretty smart. Yeah. That's uh, they say the riches are in the niches, so it's, you know, I haven't experienced that yet, but it's coming. [00:22:37] I don't think I've experienced it either, but if I wanted to make a lot of money, I would, I had a fatter wallet if I'd had done something else. Well, yeah, we're, we're on the outdoors because we love it. That's for sure. [00:22:51] The flexibility of my lifestyle. Yeah. The opportunity for fresh air that, that you can't be placed with just a fatter wallet. If I have a bad day and I start to gripe, my husband will just quickly say, you know what? We can shove you back in a cubicle. Do you want to do that? Find that there's problems. [00:23:11] Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a, that's a good thing about the outdoors. We can just go out and blow off some steam and. See everything and anything we want to see. Yeah. And I, but I do think there's a, on the flip side of that, everyone thinks it's just fun and glamorous to work outside. I'm telling you right now, a 15 hour day in a wildfire where my nose bleeds all day and hundreds of miles from decent food and a bathroom. [00:23:35] Those are not glamorous days. Right. And there's a lot of work that goes into those shots. You know, the guy that's fishing, he's having a great day of play. Me trying to shoot footage of him. Fishing is not play. It is work. Yeah, no, it is. It's all work. I think that's the thing that we all, whatever you chose choose to do as a vocation, there are going to be parts of it that are work. [00:23:55] I don't care how much fun most of it is. You know, I, I have two degrees in recreation and, you know, made a choice early on to make the outdoors, my vocation. But there are days when is your sales guy or you're a product guy or whatever that they're, it's work and just the nature of the beast, I think. Yeah. [00:24:13] And I think that there's a real tendency by people that want to especially get into the outdoor work that will do it for nothing. And I worry about that because this isn't a hobby for me. This is how I feed my family. And I have to make money or I have to do something else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a lot of that. [00:24:32] People are selling their services for lower amounts and I think that they are doing it, the service through a lot, a lot of the outdoor pros. And eventually they're going to find out that, you know, there. There is they're going to come to a point where they're not going to go to that lowest bidder because they want to make some money too. [00:24:47] So it's you muzzle start out making a decent, you know, charging a decent amount so you can continue, but that could be a whole nother. Maybe that should be a whole nother episode. Actually. That's a good one. That leaves a good one. Then I think a lot of the reason you'll see that under cutting of. Value across the industry is people are doing this on the side of some off of other office jobs. [00:25:08] Yeah. Or they just want to break into it and they think that's the way to do it. Yeah. Yes, yes. You know, I helped mentor my neighbor's grandson. She came over to the day and she was so excited and she's like, he graduated, he's out of college and he's writing for this newspaper and I'm so glad you helped him. [00:25:23] And I said, Oh, I'm so happy to hear that. I'd love it. And she said, yeah, he's getting paid in beer. I said, Oh no, that's not how this goes down. He is not going to be able to feed his family on beer and the beer is going to wear out, you know, pretty quickly. Yup. Yup. Beer and gear. You can't, you can't make, make a living and feed your face beard gear. [00:25:44] So yeah, you need dollars in there somewhere. Folks. We're going to take a little break, give some love to our sponsor. Hey, do you love to read, but don't always have the time to sit down with a good book on the same. And sometimes I just feel like having someone else tell the story. Well, if you use audible, then you know, if not you're missing out, it's like having a library in your phone. [00:26:04] And I use it a lot. Auto helps a mile slot by when I'm on the road. As I'm enjoying great books I discover or recommended by friends. Get your free audio book, download and a 30 day free trial@audibletrial.com slash the outdoor biz podcast. There are over 180,000 titles to choose from. Go to audible trial.com/the outcrop is podcast and start your free 30 day trial with audible today. [00:26:26] And now back to the show. So he talked a little bit about your new film ocean to Idaho. I saw the trailer this morning. That looks pretty cool. Oh, I'm glad you saw the trailer. I it's very likely you're the first person to see it because I just finished it. It's kind of coming. Like everyone is going to learn soon that it's out. [00:26:45] So I'd love that you got to see it. Um, okay. So the, that comes out in 2021 is ocean to Idaho and it follows salmon migration from the Oregon coast to the Idaho wilderness and the magic behind all that actually started. In early 2020 when I went on the road to follow that migration route. So it's a multi-year project and that's an unusual for me to spread something out like this. [00:27:12] But I wanted one year where I actually shocked that migration is how it had to be done. And then the next year is when it comes out. Because by the time the migration is done, we're into snow and people don't want to watch. Something like that. And they want, I want them to watch this story when the salmon are moving through the area again, and it's the longest piece I've ever edited for videos. [00:27:35] So it's, it's quite a crunch on time, but the reason so many people know about ocean to Idaho already a year in advance is because I let them follow me virtually on the road trip. Smart. Good, good. Yeah. And so everybody was at home. You know, I knew this was what I was going to do. I said, I'm going to follow salmon migration from the ocean to Idaho. [00:27:57] I said that October, 2019, by March of 2020, my plans were down the drain. And I said, I'm going to follow the salmon migration from the ocean to Idaho. That Dennett be damned. And so what I had to do was dump all my plans and figure out how to follow these fish because we were not moving, but the fish still work. [00:28:18] Right. And I wanted to follow them safely and responsibly. And that meant living out of a truck and a camper all summer, following the migration route through Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Did you do that? Solo solo all by myself, I had masks. I had a temperature chart. I had to take my temperatures for several weeks in advance before I even stepped foot in Oregon. [00:28:44] And. Um, I started following the migration in June and I've finished with the last few dozen Chinook salmon that make it to mile 850 in central Idaho wilderness in September. Wow, very cool. And it was, it was, uh, alone. There is one stretch within that 850 miles. That is all wilderness and there's no road. [00:29:07] The only way to navigate that as a raft. And I, I navigated on a raft because somebody that I know in Idaho picked up a permit because everyone from out of town could come use the tags they drawn. Yeah. And so there was that 80 mile stretch of the 850 mile route when I wasn't alone because my family was with me and we run a raft with other families on their rafts and we did whitewater rafting through that wilderness stretch. [00:29:33] Well, that's cool. Other than that I was alone. And, um, I shoot with five cameras and I shot the five cameras by myself. I lived out of a Toyota Tundra and a four wheel camper on top of that. I had to learn how to run everything in one day and when everything kind of fell into place and I said, I'm going, and I'm going to have to do it in a way that isolates me. [00:29:58] Toyota stepped in with, with wheels, but will camper stepped in with the house on top of the wheels? And I knew I was going to go and I just, yeah. Needed somewhere safe to keep me and my gear and to isolate no one was allowed inside my camper or my truck and I wasn't with anybody unless I was interviewing them. [00:30:19] And then they were six feet away. I was totally self-contained. I didn't go into any, that's a story right there. And it's in and of itself. Are you going to tell her how you're going to tell that story or is that part of the film? That's that's a great question. Is that, do I tell that story in the film or not? [00:30:34] And right now, Here's where I'm at, letting people virtually follow me while they were stuck at home. During the pandemic really caught fire people really liked seeing what was going on in the world. Through someone who has to cover it accurately and fairly. And yeah, I don't, I don't paint it pretty. This is what's happening. [00:30:59] Yeah. Yeah. Well, we all like to live vicariously through others sometimes. So that was, yeah, I think during the pandemic that people really attached to that. And so I quickly took that road trip and morphed it into what became a kind of its own standing identity. There's this whole library of episodes and they came out twice a week. [00:31:20] People watched. I had a biomarker for miles zero to eight 50. And I'd say we're at this mile. Marker. Here's why we're here. This is the first of eight down. That's why we're right here. And then that would be on Thursday and on Tuesday it was behind the scenes. Here's my temperature chart. Here's my masks. [00:31:39] Here's what happens with my camera breaks. Here's what happens when I fall out of my camper and. You know, here's what happened. This is why my face is taped up on camera at the end. It's cause I have stitches in my face and know that got to like live all that with me. That you can't plan that. No, that's, that's, that's a story too. [00:31:57] That's a film too. That's I think my thing. So, so I've made all those episodes and people kind of seem to like the idea of binge-watching those now that they're all together. So that's fun. Yeah. But when I started to edit the film and I had 25 hours of footage, And I needed to fit it into a 26 minutes show. [00:32:15] It takes some serious prioritizing. And as a journalist in the truest sense of the word, there is no I story  perspective. Yeah. Yeah. And it's all about every person I have. Every person along that migration route and what that water means to them. And what's going on here that helps fish what's going on here. [00:32:38] That hurts fish. You have to involve all looks perspectives. I wanted everyone's perspective in this issue and I took it as my responsibility to cover it fairly accurately balanced. You know, you start talking about dams, should they stay or should they go, you damn well, better get both sides of that story. [00:32:59] So I decided in the film itself, I pulled myself out of it as a personality. And it's strictly coming from the perspective of everyone that lives along the migration route. And then I'm going to create a director's cut that, pulls it out and says, Oh yeah, here's the spot where. I broke my camera. This is what happened that day. [00:33:22] Right. And here, Oh, let me tell you about these, you know, this part here I showed up. At mile eight 50 was stitches Haggard. Yeah. God, I can't imagine. Yeah. Yeah. I think that'd be a good story right there too though. I think there's a lot of people that like to know, you know, the behind the scenes and that just got verified validated by all the people that followed you. [00:33:42] Yeah. And I think, you know, it's pretty uncomfortable to watch yourself fall apart as you're watching this fall apart. And at the end, the fish died and I didn't. And so now I have to decide how all that gets to roll out. The film itself won't have me in it, but the director's cut. Well, the road trip episodes definitely have in them. [00:34:03] Wait to see it. We'll link to that in the show notes too. It's called ocean to Idaho and there's a trailer there. That sounds super fun. I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. I got to go to the bank film festival a few times, um, back when I was with Eagle Creek and it just, all those kinds of films that you're talking about, and I really was inspired. [00:34:20] Not only by the film, but then some of the backstories when you got to go back and talk to the, the director and the filmmaker. And so I think there's, there's an opportunity to do both of those things. Yeah. Yeah. I'd agree. And I think even more so now the one thing that social media has done is it has changed the expectations on the audience's side. [00:34:38] Yeah. Yeah. You know what I was in news, I could do a live shot at 10 o'clock and tell you what happened on the TV screen. And you would watch me in your living room, but you couldn't tell me anything. You could call the district. If you wanted to complain or say, I need to know something else about this, but with social media, you can actually connect with that person more. [00:34:57] And so your expectation grows. You want a more personal connection with that journalist. Yeah. And I realize now that that, you know, halfway through my career, That was a significant shift and I needed to be open to the idea that people wanted to know what it was like to cover this story and not just know the story. [00:35:15] They're more advanced now. They want more than just the story they want the backstory. Yeah. I think they've realized they can get it now. Right back in the day they couldn't get it. They had no way. Well, I shouldn't say no way, but very few ways to reach out to the producers and the filmmakers. But now, like you say, it's just, it's right there. [00:35:32] It's on social media. Just call them up, you know, send him an email, you know, whatever it might be. Yeah. Do you have any desire to make a feature length film? Do I have any desire to make a feature length film? I thought hard about this question for a long time. Uh, you know what I mean? When I say I come from two-minute news, the longer things get. [00:35:54] The more of a lifetime, they feel, but they also, the challenge intrigues me. Uh, of adding lanes. I honestly didn't think I could pull off a book. I do not have the attention span to sit down that long, but honestly, I broke my leg in three places, coaching kid hockey, and I was on the couch for four months growing bone around a rod. [00:36:22] And I had to sit down, I was on drugs that made my muscles hold still. And so. You can crank out a pretty decent chunk of word count when you have to do that. Yes, you can. Now I don't want to do that to create a feature film, but, uh, 26 minutes for ocean to Idaho will be the longest. I have ever produced. [00:36:43] When I produce shows Freido public TV, they are for a half hour format, which is 26 minutes. Most of my other films have hovered around the 10 minute Mark, you know, uh, on the internet. Shoot. I still turn out two minutes movies. Yeah. That's what people want to watch then all the time. Yeah. But you know, as we talked about the audience expectation growing, I think that when someone says that they're going to make a feature film. [00:37:08] Your first instinct is to think, well, no, one's going to watch that it's too long. But think of the other side of that, our audiences education level and expectation level is growing. You know, they will sit down for it. Even if it's long is good enough. Well, they will. And they do. I mean, look at the explosion of Netflix and Amazon prime video and all these places, YouTube, where we watch all these things, especially now in the pandemic. [00:37:31] But even before the pandemic people, I think they liked the story part of it. Like I was saying about the, the backstory, the director's cut, if you will, of, of ocean to Idaho, that's going to be a phenomenal story. That could be an interesting film. Yeah. And I think that there's the, the intrigue of a feature film. [00:37:51] But I think it's only there for me now because I've grown into it. Yeah. There was no way back when I was doing two-minute news that I could have seriously considered a feature film. And now I've cranked out 50,000 words for a book. So Hey, maybe feature film might be the next lane. There you go, folks. [00:38:11] You heard it here? Well, let's sit with the 26 minutes. I haven't come out yet. Yeah. Let's see how that goes. Yeah. And one thing at a time. Yeah. Okay. Let's get back to some other questions. Um, so you, you do a lot of outdoor activities. Do you have a favorite, favorite outdoor activity? Something that you, and when you're not filming, when you just need to go out with the kids or just blow off some steam, do you go fishing to go hiking? [00:38:37] What do you do? Fly Fisher. I am a trail runner. I am a rafter, a hiker, a biker. I'm all those do it all. Yeah. Yeah. If I get a day off and um, I want to get out, it's not so much about what I'm doing. It's where I'm doing it. That's what matters to me. The farther away, the more rewrote mode it is, the more enticing it is to me. [00:39:05] And I think you. Even if I'm there like a high mountain Lake, you're not going to catch a big five-pound lunker and you're going to work your butt off to get up there and you're going to catch maybe something as long as your hands. Yeah. But that fishing to me is so much more rewarding because I worked so hard to get to it. [00:39:21] And there's nobody else around. Yeah. I tend to do okay. Farther away. And Trevor means the same way. I'm an ultra. So I run distance. And man, you get me back in there on the continental divide, which is deep wilderness in the Idaho Montana borders. Uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna really feel like I'm in my element because no one's around me. [00:39:42] Whereas other runners, particularly women, they feel more comfortable running where there's people. Well, I feel better running my there's no people. Yeah, I'm the same way. I, I, I do better when there's, I mean, I've been this way. My parents have, since I was a kid, I don't talk to anybody. I don't always play by myself. [00:39:59] I still do that. I still find that I would much like Bishop. There's a bunch of places that I can go fishing, but I don't like to go there cause there's, you know, you gotta find an open piece of water. I want to go somewhere where I can just go fish and, uh, or hike or whatever it is. So it's interesting. I never heard it put that way though, but that's. [00:40:17] Crystallizes it for me too. Yeah. Yeah. You'll see. You'll see me doing any of those activities. Yeah. Uh, I, I work in the hike and bike world and the hook and bullet world. So I've got to be pretty versatile for all of it. Um, and my kids have been exposed to all of us. They're little river rats. They, the ones that heck of a runner, he is so much faster than me now, but I can go farther than him. [00:40:40] So there you go. That's good. Yeah. So, uh, let's shift gears a little bit here. Do you have any suggestions or advice for folks wanting to get into the outdoor biz or grow their career or the filmmaking biz? Ooh, which one do you want to hit? Outdoor? Um, let's do outdoor height. Let's stick with outdoor. [00:40:58] Cause that's pretty much what I ask everybody. And do you want to get into outdoor outdoor as a business? Well, yeah, outdoors of business. I mean, I think outdoor, I think a lot of folks, you know, that listen to this show, they listened for the stories, but they also either are in the business or looking to get in the business and, yeah. [00:41:18] All right. So when it comes to the outdoor business, I have a pretty interesting take on it. And it comes from two and a half decades of watching our industry shift. And I'm just so impressed by what I see within our industry as things shift and what matters now, and the way to come at this business. If I were coming at it now would be to look at it from the user's perspective in every. [00:41:51] And every way, and that is because the way we value our natural resources has made a dramatic shift in the last century. And you can see it in the way that outdoor users lay out their expectations and those users are your customers. So a century ago we were, we were mining, logging. It's really pretty cavalier about the other space. [00:42:20] Yeah. Sources to us were, what do we get out of them? What can they do for us with a dollar sign? Now, look at where we're at today. Yes. They're still mining, logging, drilling, developing a little bit of damning and all that still going on, but you know what? Now there's a seat at the table for that natural resource as it is. [00:42:40] Yeah. Natural resources hold a value for what they offer us as they are. Or in many cases that you see today as they will be, as they're put back together, that has a value. Now our natural resources hold, hold value beyond dollar. And when your customers start realizing natural resources, hold value beyond dollar. [00:43:03] The way to connect to them is to also value those natural resources beyond dollar. I like it. Yeah. That's a good point. And that's a good thing. As we, as the world gets more populated and you know, these places get more crowded, it becomes more important to think about those things. I think. Yeah. You know, it was amazing to me. [00:43:23] I don't live very far from the DMV in Idaho falls, Idaho, and, um, It's downtown. Everyone passes by downtown, but it was amazing to me to see how many out-of-state plates were in the parking lot of the DMB, getting licenses for Idaho during the pandemic, California, Texas, Colorado. Plates from everywhere coming here. [00:43:44] And I live about an hour and a half from Yellowstone. So we already get an influx of travelers, but the people, the, the travel, you see the people on the river and they're usually tourists and they stop and they visit, and then they moved to Yellowstone. But the people in the parking lot at the division of motor vehicles, all those out-of-state plates were coming to stay. [00:44:03] Yeah. And so, yeah, you're starting to see that push there's that, you know, the animals. Start to shift with climate change. There's that whole shift in the migration routes is the temperature shifts. But you're also seeing with humanity, they're pushing into places that have space to have resources. Yeah. [00:44:23] You're starting to see that. And even if people don't realize that's what's going on and that's what it is, they're pushing them to safer places to be. Yeah. Yeah. With more space. Yeah. I think you're right. And people are leaving in the country too. Yeah, that's a, we see it up here. In Bishop, but more from a recreation perspective because the land is all pretty much owned. [00:44:41] You can't, there's no, you know, they're not going to build more. The city and Bishop can't get a lot bigger because the land is around them as already owned by department of water, power and, and other folks. So that can't happen. But, um, you see them out here recreating. That's interesting though. I never thought of that. [00:44:57] I never, you know, I haven't been to a small town. Like Idaho falls. So that makes sense though, because you've read about it in the news and people are talking about it all over. People are looking to leave the country, leave the state. I mean, they're itching to get out of California because it's crowded and you know, the, whether you believe or support the politics or not, it's just weird. [00:45:15] So yeah. You know, you see all those, the devastating wildfires in California, you may want to run away from that. Right. Well, when you get a fire of that size in Idaho, wilderness, no one lives there, right? Yeah. It's it's it's, uh, I mean, it's fired a grand scale and I happen to more places in California. The problem in California is that people live there and hopefully it won't, it won't impact. [00:45:40] I'd hope people will not miss more people go there. We gotta make sure that we don't let them live there. They shouldn't live there in my opinion, because it's a tricky thing. Yeah. It's tough. So, but, but, so he's got to call it right. Someone's got to say, no, we can't do this. You know, and we let him, we have these big fires in California and then. [00:45:58] The burns all these places now that we rebuild them right. Where they were. And it happens again, it's like same thing on Florida with flooding, same thing. You're not supposed to build in this zone. Don't rebuild in this. Don't you think that would make sense, but you know what, someone's home. It gets crazy. [00:46:14] I get it. It's their home. Yeah, you're right. And some of these places in these, in these, you know, remote towns and stuff, people have lived there for hundreds of years. So it's in their ancestors home, you know, I saw a bumper sticker the other day, uh, you know, the whole, it was the shape of Idaho, the state with the pan handle. [00:46:34] And it said fr we're full. A lot of folks are saying that, yeah, a lot of folks are saying that as California. And so, you know, I mean, the world said that the U S and the pandemic, they don't want us, you know, coming in. So they. Wouldn't accept passports. And I'm sure States are saying that to you for the same reason, similar reasons. [00:46:53] Anyway. Yeah. It's definitely going to make things interesting. And there's so much that has shifted lifestyle wise because there's a lot that people aren't seeing yet. And that's one of the things I think people aren't really quite seeing. Yeah. Not just visiting the river and the trails as they pass through there at the DMV getting a license, they're staying right. [00:47:16] That's going to be a different farm. Yeah. Um, how about favorite books? Do you have any favorite books or do you have a book? You give us gifts, your book? Of course, I give my book a lot. I find that writing a book puts you in this whole new realm. My place in my man is decades of the most dynamic. News stories I've covered with my perspective added to it. [00:47:39] And so I know that people like to read that. So when you read my place among men, you're reading a legitimate news story with the perspective put into it, that shows you what it's like to be in that moment. Right. And that can apply to every age, race, gender. And so people are really, I mean, I've got 12 year old, little hockey kids reading it, and I've got my neighbor that's 85 reading it. [00:47:58] So it's cool that, that matters. And if you can make a book like that, I'm drawn to those, but you know, an editor's going to tell you that that's not the best way to write if you niche down and it sells better, I'm already in it's down. Cause I'm in the outdoors. So there's some of that. If I have to pick, you know, if I'm going to pick a book that I want to give to someone, honestly, it's not a classic novel style book. [00:48:25] It's a book that fits more to my two minute attention span. And that's all the places you'll go by Dr. Seuss. Oh, cool. I love it. That's a good one. Yeah. I loved the way he plays with words. I love the way he breaks all the rules on what we think, things look like and sound like, and that he does it in about two minutes. [00:48:46] He was an amazing writer. I mean, you know, to a P to get a little kid, to sit down and write a book like that. And then even adults, like you say, some of those books, you read them as adults. Like, ah, never S I never read that before. You know, I never interpreted that way before. That's cool. How about your favorite piece of outdoor gear? [00:49:03] Under a hundred dollars. My favorite piece of outdoor gear pushes the a hundred dollars Mark, pretty hard, but I think it's still worth it. It's trail running shoes. So, um, I've tried different brands. And so there, it just to kind of depends on what kind of, I think it all comes down to cushion. Yeah. I used to run barefoot, so I'm a minimalist. [00:49:22] I want as little as I can get on the bottom of my feet. I like to feel the ground and, uh, I don't run barefoot anymore. I think after 15 miles, that's not a smart idea. It's be hard on the knees, but here's what I find about trail running shoes. I wore hiking boots forever. And when I, my leg in three places, one of the breaks was the hockey puck hit my shin and then just kind of shattered the bone in every direction from there. [00:49:49] And so where a hiking boot rides up higher on your shin, that's a total no-go for that seam where rods and screws are inside my rebuilt Lake. Yeah, I can do it, but I don't like it. So I stopped wearing a high rise, hiking boot. And I had trout runners in my closet because I run trail. I started wearing that instead, and now I wear my trail runners when I'm not running. [00:50:14] My old pairs are my mowing shoes. I go through several pairs a year. And so, uh, the bottom wears out before the top. So I just following them. But I find that I'm also. Uh, we went scouting for elk a few weeks ago and I wore trail runners and we weren't, we weren't even on a trail and we were bushwhacking and I found a hole, the hole, I found like a moose graveyard. [00:50:38] It was like the whole remains of a moose and it's racking, everything. Wow. Totally undisturbed. And so we were way off trail and I was only in trail runners. So. A trail runner with a Gator guard to keep up the gravel. Yeah, I find is so versatile and works in so many situations. If I need to get in the river, they dry out quick. [00:51:00] So I picked trail running shoes because they. Are versatile way beyond trail. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I don't wear hiking boots, either stiff souls or any of that stuff. Nope. I wear lightweight and oftentimes trail running shoes just because I have really bad knees, but I agree with you. I mean, it's lighter. [00:51:16] It's, it's, you know, less work on your leg and if you can get a good trail running shoe, you get the support you need. So I totally agree with you. Yeah. And I would say that maybe with a heavy pack, you know, a multi-day backpacking trip where you've got your house and your back, or my camera pack on my back for extended time. [00:51:32] Maybe that's not the best idea with powered ankle support, but by and large, I'm doing fine without wearing a big, heavy, stiff, clunky hiking boots. My mother hit mom the same. Yep. Um, as we wrap up, is there anything else you'd like to say to our audience or ask our audience? I would ask you to do this. [00:51:52] Stick your feet in the river, any river, the closest one you can get to people say they don't have the access to the outdoors, but you know, don't you drink water and that water is coming from somewhere. It's fine. Flowing water and stick your feet in it. It just makes that connection to our outdoor world. [00:52:10] That much more important to you if you can connect with it. And that's a simple way to do it, you don't need a lot of expensive gear. You don't have to drive far. Yeah. But just find a way to connect. And for me, that's the sticking your feet in the water. Perfect. I love it. That's a good one. That should be a t-shirt. [00:52:24] Maybe I'll make a t-shirt and if people want to reach out to you, where's the best way. Where's the best place for them to find you the best way to reach willing to all your social? Yeah. We'll link to all your social feeds. Yeah. So the best way to find me would be to go through my company website, Tate line, media.com. [00:52:44] Okay, cool. We'll link to that in the show notes too. Well, it's been great talking to you. I look forward to seeing you at one of the OWA events soon, and whenever we, whenever we get back together, we will. That's coming. And if, and if there's an Orr, we got to do that, we should for sure. Make sure that there's an in-person event where we can actually see people we got to meet. [00:53:05] Yeah, we will connect. Definitely. Well, thanks, Chris. I look forward to letting you know when this goes live and, uh, talking to you next week on the webinar, maybe your next month, I guess he was on that webinar. Yeah, thank you. All right, thanks. Have a good day. Have a good holiday. Thank you for joining us. [00:53:21] On another episode of the outdoor biz podcast, be sure to visit our website, the outdoor biz podcast.com where you'll find show notes with links to everything we talked about and more subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts. Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. So you'll never miss an episode. And while you're at it, if you found value in this show, you'd appreciate a rating on iTunes or spread the word and tell a friend about the show that would really help us out to be sure to tune in every day. [00:53:50] And thanks again for listening to the outdoor biz podcast with Rick Saez.

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On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we explore the life, love, songs, and death of the ultimate rock and roll front man, Freddie Mercury. He wasn't the typical British rock god people assume him to be. In fact, he was born in Zanzibar, not the UK. His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara, and he didn't live in England until he was 12 years old when his parents were fleeing a violent revolution in their home country. Unsurprisingly, he was a gifted musician early on, learning the piano at age 8 and being able to parrot just about any song shortly thereafter. He started singing in bands before he was even a teenager, but he only started to seriously do gigs when he moved to London with his long time fiancé Mary Austin. He sang in small bands with horrible names (Sour Milk Sea, The Hectics, Ibex, and Wreckage) before he met guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, to become lead singer of their band Smile (bass player John Deacon joined later). The released an album a couple years later, and then started to prolifically drop an album a year through the early 70s. They met with some success with the album Sheer Heart Attack in 1974, and the rest was music history. They started to tour, and Freddie Mercury's charisma sold out house after house. Freddie turned out to be a musical genius with a four octave range, and only sleeping three or four hours a night (something that Prince also did, which I guess is a sign of musical genius!). Eventually, no music venue could hold them, so they became the first band to sell out sporting arenas. Their live shows culminated in their Live Aid performance, which is largely considered to be the greatest rock and roll concert of all time. From “We Will Rock You” to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and from “Under Pressure” to “Flash Gordon,” the larger-than-life stadium glam rock hits kept coming. Through it all, there were of course parties, cocaine, and lots and lots of sex. This is what ultimately lead to Freddie Mercury’s AIDS-related death in 1991. So, was Freddie Mercury gay or bisexual? What happened between him and his female fiancé of 7 years? How did she get along with his boyfriend? Why did he keep his AIDS diagnosis a secret? To whom did he leave his fortune, and why? What was with his broken microphone stand? And why didn't he fix those teeth?!? Listen, laugh, learn.   Visit our Sources: https://www.biography.com/musician/freddie-mercury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury http://www.freddiemercury.com/ https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/j5yn37/freddie-mercury-peter-freestone-interview https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/freddie-mercury-facts-you-need-to-know/ http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191010-who-was-the-real-freddie-mercury http://mentalfloss.com/article/22465/facts-about-freddie-mercury https://planetradio.co.uk/magic/entertainment/music/freddie-mercury/ https://www.boredpanda.com/freddie-mercury-facts-icecreammaam/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1186713/Freddie-Mercury-sex-gay-boyfriend-girlfriend-Mary-Austin-interview-Bohemian-Rhapsody-fans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cook_(songwriter)

Hoy vamos a repasar la vida y milagros de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia del rock: THE QUEEN. Para ello contaremos con la colaboración de dos periodistas de prestigio: Miguel Ángel Bargueño y Carlos Marcos que hace unos días publicaron un artículo en el periódico El País en el que, a través de 12 de las mejores canciones de este grupo, recorrían la trayectoria musical de esta fantástica banda. Así que, y apoyándonos en ese trabajo, empezamos con el número 12 de esta lista: Another One Bites the Dust, de 1980 e incluida en el disco “The Game” La línea de bajo resulta tan adherente como un buen estribillo. Y es una apuesta segura para poner patas arriba una discoteca. El bajo de John Deacon, autor del tema, es el protagonista absoluto del 'single' más vendido de la historia de Queen (fue número uno de ventas en Estados Unidos y en casi todo el mundo). Como buen bajista, flipaba con el funk y la música disco, y con esos mimbres, creó esta base rítmica prodigiosa. El tema está aderezado con efectos de sonido que hoy pueden parecer obsoletos, pero que en su momento eran de lo más moderno: recuerdan al despegue de una nave espacial. Queen ponían así un pie en los ochenta, cuando se suponía que la ciencia ficción iba a dejar de ser ficción. Con todo, la banda no tenía mucha confianza en este tema, y, según ha revelado Roger Taylor, fue Michael Jackson quien, tras escucharlo, les dijo: “Chicos, estáis locos si no lo sacáis como 'single”. El batería también recordó que muchas emisoras de soul creyeron, al oírlo por primera vez, que el tema era de un grupo afroamericano. Numero once: Killer Queen, de 1974 e incluida en el disco “Sheer Heart” La estructura de Killer Queen es casi cabaretera. Pero Queen consiguen elaborar un medio tiempo rockero, con capas de voces ya marca de la casa y la guitarra afilada (y limpia) de Brian May. Era 1974 y Queen eran todavía una banda de rock duro. Killer Queen es la canción que le dio el primer éxito internacional al grupo. Se ponían los primeros cimientos del reinado de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia. Sobre esta canción, Mercury explicó: “Trata sobre una mujer de clase alta que se dedica a la prostitución. Lo que quiero transmitir en el texto es que las mujeres ricas también pueden ser putas”. Pero según parte de sus seguidores, la protagonista es un travesti… a saber. Sea como fuere, la canción salió en poco tiempo. “La escribí en una noche”, confirmó Mercury. Una anécdota: la estrella pop Katy Perry denominó a su propio perfume Killer Queen. Y lo explicó: “Freddie Mercury definió en la letra a la mujer que siempre he querido ser. Por eso he llamado así a mi perfume”. Bueno, a lo mejor alguien debería haber explicado a Perry la auténtica intención de la letra. Seguimos: número DIEZ, “Seven seas of Rhye”, de 1974 e incluida en el disco “Queen II” Resulta llamativo cómo Queen eran capaces de hacer tanto en tampoco tiempo. 'Seven seas of Rhye' dura 2,45 (como una canción punk, vamos), pero pasan mil cosas: una introducción de piano, guitarras heavies, una deslumbrante interpretación de Mercury, estribillos, solo de guitarra, parte vocal operística, una coda ruidosa con voces de fiesta… Estamos ante los Queen de su etapa dura. La canción se incluye en su segunda obra, 'Queen II'. Una reinvención del rock duro en toda regla. Es también una de las letras más misteriosas de la primera etapa del grupo. La tierra de Rhye aparece en varias letras escritas por Mercury. Para algunos es un mundo fantástico creado por él y su hermana mientras vivían con su familia en Zanzíbar. Freddie nació allí: su padre trabajaba para la británica Secretaría de las Colonias y en aquella época Zanzíbar estaba bajo protectorado inglés. La otra versión es que es una letra de contenido religioso: una crítica al lado oscuro de las religiones. Como siempre… a saber. Número NUEVE: We will rock you, de 1977 e incluida en su disco News of the world. Con esta canción nació el rock de estadio. Sorprendentemente corta (solo dos minutos: ¿a que creías que era más larga?), más básica imposible (incluso podría sobrar el solo de guitarra final) y de una eficacia automática. Si alguien sueña con componer la canción que tiene que corear todo el mundo, está perdiendo el tiempo: lleva en marcha desde 1977. La mayoría de los éxitos de Queen están compuestos por Mercury. Este no: lleva la firma del guitarrista Brian May. ¿En qué se inspiró para componer este clásico de los estadios? Pues en un estadio. Habla May: “Una noche, al final de un concierto, nos retiramos del escenario y de fondo escuché a la gente cantar el himno del Liverpool. Me fui a la cama pensando en una canción donde el público pudiera participar. Es gente que está ahí, apretujada, apenas se puede mover, pero puede aplaudir, golpear sus pies y cantar. Cuando me desperté por la mañana 'We will rock you' salió del tirón”. Vamos a por el número OCHO: Bicycle Race, de 1978 e incluida en el disco Jazz. Esta canción es originalísima, tanto por su composición como por su letra. A Mercury, que no tenía especial predilección por las bicicletas, se le encendió la bombilla cuando vio pasar el pelotón del Tour de Francia cerca del estudio donde Queen estaban grabando 'Jazz' en Montreux (Suiza). Con esa imagen desarrolló una lista de ideas contrapuestas (“Tú dices blanco, yo digo negro / Tú dices ladrar, yo digo morder”), sazonada de agudos comentarios sobre 'Star Wars', Tiburón', 'Peter Pan', 'Superman' o 'Frankenstein', con el ansia de libertad como trasfondo. También fue muy original su lanzamiento como 'single', dado que 'Fat bootmed girls', en la otra cara, era un tema siamés: en la letra de uno se mencionaba el otro y viceversa. Su vídeo causó sensación: muestra a un nutrido grupo de modelos desnudas montando en bicicleta en los alrededores del estadio de Wembley. Llegamos al número siete: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, de 1979, del disco The Game. Por qué nos gusta tanto? Porque es una maravillosa rareza dentro de la discografía de Queen. Una canción de latido acústico, con un ritmo de rock and roll de los cincuenta que podrían haber firmado unos revisionistas como Stray Cats. Pero no: es de Queen y les reportó mucho dinero, ya que fue la primera vez que el grupo llegó al número uno en EEUU. “Me salió en cinco minutos mientras me tomaba un baño”, declaró Freddie Mercury sobre 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'. Luego llegaría la fase de pulir, pero básicamente salió de allí, de un baño relajado en una habitación de hotel del Hilton de Múnich, donde el grupo se fue a grabar el disco 'The Game'. Resulta curioso el vídeo, con todos los miembros vestidos de rockeros duros (cuero a tope) y donde Mercury, agasajado por bellas señoritas, ejerce de macho alfa como si fuera un componente de Led Zeppelin. Número SEIS: Now I’m Here, de 1975. Para el aficionado que se enganchó a Queen en los ochenta quizá este tren desbocado no lo sienta familiar. Pero sí, Queen fueron duros, muy duros. ‘Now I´m here’ es el ejemplo, una canción de rock perfecta: apabullante energía, melodía y una interpretación feroz. Hay hasta un minisolo de batería. Esta vez el que compone es Brian May, y en unas circunstancias llamativas. La escribe durante una convalecencia en el hospital, afectado por una hepatitis. “Estábamos en plena gira por Estados Unidos con Mott the Hoople y tuvimos que suspenderla por mi enfermedad. Fue una faena. Incluso llegué a temer que me sustituyeran, así que empecé a escribir canciones para el próximo disco”, ha contado May. En la letra se hace referencia a la gira con Moot the Hoople e incluso un guiño a un clásico de Chuck Berry, ‘Little Queenie’. Número cinco: Don’t stop me now, de 1978 e incluida en su LP Jazz Con su ritmo endiablado y su mensaje de “voy a comerme el mundo”, es mejor que cualquier libro de autoayuda. Aunque es un tema inequívoco de rock, no hay guitarra excepto en el solo: conseguir esa potencia solo con piano, bajo y batería es algo que no está al alcance de cualquiera. La rica discografía de Queen permite que sucedan cosas como esta: que un tema que en su momento no tuvo especial repercusión sea redescubierto con el paso de los años —gracias a la publicidad y el cine— y hoy figure entre sus títulos más emblemáticos. Mercury debió de escribir la letra en un momento de especial subidón, utilizando la astronomía como metáfora de su excitación febril: “Soy una estrella fugaz saltando por el cielo”, “viajo a la velocidad de la luz”, “soy un cohete de camino a Marte” o “soy un satélite fuera de control” son algunas de esas referencias. Aunque la frase más redonda es: “Estoy ardiendo a través del cielo a 200 grados, por eso me llaman míster Fahrenheit”. En 2014, en el Reino Unido la eligieron como la mejor canción para conducir. Vamos al número cuatro: “Under Pressure”, de 1981 e incluida en el disco “Hot Space”. Artista invitado: David Bowie. A veces, unas pequeñas notas tocadas como si nada, lo son todo. Por ejemplo: el bajo de esta canción. Bueno, pues resulta que la colaboración entre dos colosos como Freddie Mercury y David Bowie, se recuerda por ese sonido de bajo de John Deacon. Lo que no está claro es si fue idea de Deacon o si Deacon la tocó, luego se le olvidó y la recordó Bowie con alguna aportación. La canción tiene mucho más: un duelo vocal que no es tal, ya que Bowie y Mercury se van alternando en la ejecución de forma tan fluida como sorprendentemente generosa, si tenemos en cuenta el volumen de sus egos respectivos. En cualquier caso, de dos artistas colosales que no estaban ni mucho menos en su mejor momento sale una obra maestra como “Under Pressure”. Bowie venía del tibio “Scary Monsters” y Queen estaban exhaustos después de años de éxito. Se juntaron en Suiza y salió esta pieza firmada por los cinco en la que se trabajó de forma colectiva para que luego Freddie y David se pelearan en la última fase del proceso. “ La mezcla final no me pareció buena. Fue el momento en el que Freddie y David batallaran duramente por imponer sus criterios”, ha revelado Brian May. En tercera posición: Somebady to Love, de 1976 e incluida en el disco “A day at the races” Cuatro rockeros ingleses sonando como un coro góspel de cien personas. Y, al mismo tiempo, 100% Queen. Tras el éxito de 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Mercury intentó hacer algo parecido en el siguiente disco, 'A Day at The Races'. Con una variante: en vez de inspirarse en la tradición operística europea, lo hizo en el góspel estadounidense. “Es nuevo, es ligeramente diferente”, explicó Freddie a la revista 'Circus' en 1977. “Pero aún suena a los Queen de siempre”. En la misma entrevista, el batería Roger Taylor explicó que este tema “está muy influido por Aretha Franklin. Freddie está muy colgado con ella”. A diferencia de 'Bohemian rhapsody', se acerca más al formato estándar de canción de rock. Compuesta por Mercury al piano, la letra va dirigida a Dios, a quien pide explicaciones por una vida vacía de amor: “Me he pasado la vida creyendo en ti pero no encuentro alivio, Señor”. El arreglo de los coros es verdaderamente soberbio. Llegó al número dos en la lista de ventas británica. Mocedades (sí, Mocedades) grabó en 1981 una notable versión ('Amar a alguien'); parece que para conseguir el permiso de Mercury un representante de la discográfica tocó el timbre de su casa de Londres y le puso 'Eres tú', tras lo cual accedió. Y ya estamos en el número dos: I Want to Break Free de 1984 e incluida en el disco ‘The Works’ Si Queen vivieron una segunda edad dorada en los ochenta fue por temas como este. Aunque la mayor parte del repertorio de Queen nació de la pluma de Freddie Mercury, el bajista John Deacon escribió unos cuantos temas, de los que este y 'Another one bites the dust' son los más logrados y famosos. Construido con una base electrónica, cuenta con un solo de sintetizador memorable a cargo del canadiense Fred Mandel. Por el divertido vídeo, en el que los componentes del grupo aparecen vestidos de mujer realizando tareas domésticas (una parodia de la serie 'Coronation street'), algunos dieron por sentado que el tema era una declaración de la sexualidad de Mercury; pero el autor, como decimos, es Deacon, y la idea del vídeo fue del batería Roger Taylor. Si el público ya conocía el talento y la fuerza del grupo, ahora supo de su capacidad de reinvención, recuperando el aplauso masivo del público con esta y otras canciones en plena era de los teclados y las hombreras. En la actualidad, Deacon lleva una vida tranquila de sexagenario alejado de los focos. Y, por fin, el número uno: Bohemian Rhapsody, de 1975 e incluida en el disco “A night at the Opera” Con esta canción, estos cuatro tíos hicieron volar por los aires la estructura clásica de rock (estrofas y un estribillo que se repite) y se las arreglaron para insertar seis canciones en una. Tiene partes de ópera. Cascadas de voces. Una introducción a capella. Referencias a Galileo y Fígaro. La letra es misteriosa y fascinante. Y el solo de guitarra posee vida propia. No está claro qué llevó a Freddie Mercury a escribir este drama sobre un hombre que confiesa a su madre que ha cometido un asesinato y se prepara para ir al infierno. Algunos biógrafos apuntan a que se trata de una metáfora sobre la ruptura de Mercury con su pasado (hasta poco antes había estado saliendo con una chica, Mary Austin) y la aceptación de su homosexualidad. El autor nunca lo aclaró y prefirió alimentar la incógnita. Las múltiples capas de voces supusieron un reto para la tecnología de la época, que se resolvió poniendo a Mercury, May y Taylor a grabar los coros durante jornadas enteras; luego el productor Roy Thomas Baker duplicó docenas de cintas. Pese a que la discográfica no lo veía claro por su duración (casi seis minutos), se publicó como 'single' y fue un gran éxito: número uno durante nueve semanas seguidas en el Reino Unido. Aunque ya se habían rodado vídeos musicales anteriormente, el de esta canción es uno de los primeros en constituir una obra de arte en sí mismo. Queen fue la última banda realmente gigante hasta la aparición de U2, pero eso será otra historia y otro momento. Señoras y Señores, hemos terminado por hoy. Espero y deseo que vuestra vuelta al trabajo o lo que sea, os pase casi casi desapercibida.

Hoy vamos a repasar la vida y milagros de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia del rock: THE QUEEN. Para ello contaremos con la colaboración de dos periodistas de prestigio: Miguel Ángel Bargueño y Carlos Marcos que hace unos días publicaron un artículo en el periódico El País en el que, a través de 12 de las mejores canciones de este grupo, recorrían la trayectoria musical de esta fantástica banda. Así que, y apoyándonos en ese trabajo, empezamos con el número 12 de esta lista: Another One Bites the Dust, de 1980 e incluida en el disco “The Game” La línea de bajo resulta tan adherente como un buen estribillo. Y es una apuesta segura para poner patas arriba una discoteca. El bajo de John Deacon, autor del tema, es el protagonista absoluto del 'single' más vendido de la historia de Queen (fue número uno de ventas en Estados Unidos y en casi todo el mundo). Como buen bajista, flipaba con el funk y la música disco, y con esos mimbres, creó esta base rítmica prodigiosa. El tema está aderezado con efectos de sonido que hoy pueden parecer obsoletos, pero que en su momento eran de lo más moderno: recuerdan al despegue de una nave espacial. Queen ponían así un pie en los ochenta, cuando se suponía que la ciencia ficción iba a dejar de ser ficción. Con todo, la banda no tenía mucha confianza en este tema, y, según ha revelado Roger Taylor, fue Michael Jackson quien, tras escucharlo, les dijo: “Chicos, estáis locos si no lo sacáis como 'single”. El batería también recordó que muchas emisoras de soul creyeron, al oírlo por primera vez, que el tema era de un grupo afroamericano. Numero once: Killer Queen, de 1974 e incluida en el disco “Sheer Heart” La estructura de Killer Queen es casi cabaretera. Pero Queen consiguen elaborar un medio tiempo rockero, con capas de voces ya marca de la casa y la guitarra afilada (y limpia) de Brian May. Era 1974 y Queen eran todavía una banda de rock duro. Killer Queen es la canción que le dio el primer éxito internacional al grupo. Se ponían los primeros cimientos del reinado de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia. Sobre esta canción, Mercury explicó: “Trata sobre una mujer de clase alta que se dedica a la prostitución. Lo que quiero transmitir en el texto es que las mujeres ricas también pueden ser putas”. Pero según parte de sus seguidores, la protagonista es un travesti… a saber. Sea como fuere, la canción salió en poco tiempo. “La escribí en una noche”, confirmó Mercury. Una anécdota: la estrella pop Katy Perry denominó a su propio perfume Killer Queen. Y lo explicó: “Freddie Mercury definió en la letra a la mujer que siempre he querido ser. Por eso he llamado así a mi perfume”. Bueno, a lo mejor alguien debería haber explicado a Perry la auténtica intención de la letra. Seguimos: número DIEZ, “Seven seas of Rhye”, de 1974 e incluida en el disco “Queen II” Resulta llamativo cómo Queen eran capaces de hacer tanto en tampoco tiempo. 'Seven seas of Rhye' dura 2,45 (como una canción punk, vamos), pero pasan mil cosas: una introducción de piano, guitarras heavies, una deslumbrante interpretación de Mercury, estribillos, solo de guitarra, parte vocal operística, una coda ruidosa con voces de fiesta… Estamos ante los Queen de su etapa dura. La canción se incluye en su segunda obra, 'Queen II'. Una reinvención del rock duro en toda regla. Es también una de las letras más misteriosas de la primera etapa del grupo. La tierra de Rhye aparece en varias letras escritas por Mercury. Para algunos es un mundo fantástico creado por él y su hermana mientras vivían con su familia en Zanzíbar. Freddie nació allí: su padre trabajaba para la británica Secretaría de las Colonias y en aquella época Zanzíbar estaba bajo protectorado inglés. La otra versión es que es una letra de contenido religioso: una crítica al lado oscuro de las religiones. Como siempre… a saber. Número NUEVE: We will rock you, de 1977 e incluida en su disco News of the world. Con esta canción nació el rock de estadio. Sorprendentemente corta (solo dos minutos: ¿a que creías que era más larga?), más básica imposible (incluso podría sobrar el solo de guitarra final) y de una eficacia automática. Si alguien sueña con componer la canción que tiene que corear todo el mundo, está perdiendo el tiempo: lleva en marcha desde 1977. La mayoría de los éxitos de Queen están compuestos por Mercury. Este no: lleva la firma del guitarrista Brian May. ¿En qué se inspiró para componer este clásico de los estadios? Pues en un estadio. Habla May: “Una noche, al final de un concierto, nos retiramos del escenario y de fondo escuché a la gente cantar el himno del Liverpool. Me fui a la cama pensando en una canción donde el público pudiera participar. Es gente que está ahí, apretujada, apenas se puede mover, pero puede aplaudir, golpear sus pies y cantar. Cuando me desperté por la mañana 'We will rock you' salió del tirón”. Vamos a por el número OCHO: Bicycle Race, de 1978 e incluida en el disco Jazz. Esta canción es originalísima, tanto por su composición como por su letra. A Mercury, que no tenía especial predilección por las bicicletas, se le encendió la bombilla cuando vio pasar el pelotón del Tour de Francia cerca del estudio donde Queen estaban grabando 'Jazz' en Montreux (Suiza). Con esa imagen desarrolló una lista de ideas contrapuestas (“Tú dices blanco, yo digo negro / Tú dices ladrar, yo digo morder”), sazonada de agudos comentarios sobre 'Star Wars', Tiburón', 'Peter Pan', 'Superman' o 'Frankenstein', con el ansia de libertad como trasfondo. También fue muy original su lanzamiento como 'single', dado que 'Fat bootmed girls', en la otra cara, era un tema siamés: en la letra de uno se mencionaba el otro y viceversa. Su vídeo causó sensación: muestra a un nutrido grupo de modelos desnudas montando en bicicleta en los alrededores del estadio de Wembley. Llegamos al número siete: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, de 1979, del disco The Game. Por qué nos gusta tanto? Porque es una maravillosa rareza dentro de la discografía de Queen. Una canción de latido acústico, con un ritmo de rock and roll de los cincuenta que podrían haber firmado unos revisionistas como Stray Cats. Pero no: es de Queen y les reportó mucho dinero, ya que fue la primera vez que el grupo llegó al número uno en EEUU. “Me salió en cinco minutos mientras me tomaba un baño”, declaró Freddie Mercury sobre 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'. Luego llegaría la fase de pulir, pero básicamente salió de allí, de un baño relajado en una habitación de hotel del Hilton de Múnich, donde el grupo se fue a grabar el disco 'The Game'. Resulta curioso el vídeo, con todos los miembros vestidos de rockeros duros (cuero a tope) y donde Mercury, agasajado por bellas señoritas, ejerce de macho alfa como si fuera un componente de Led Zeppelin. Número SEIS: Now I’m Here, de 1975. Para el aficionado que se enganchó a Queen en los ochenta quizá este tren desbocado no lo sienta familiar. Pero sí, Queen fueron duros, muy duros. ‘Now I´m here’ es el ejemplo, una canción de rock perfecta: apabullante energía, melodía y una interpretación feroz. Hay hasta un minisolo de batería. Esta vez el que compone es Brian May, y en unas circunstancias llamativas. La escribe durante una convalecencia en el hospital, afectado por una hepatitis. “Estábamos en plena gira por Estados Unidos con Mott the Hoople y tuvimos que suspenderla por mi enfermedad. Fue una faena. Incluso llegué a temer que me sustituyeran, así que empecé a escribir canciones para el próximo disco”, ha contado May. En la letra se hace referencia a la gira con Moot the Hoople e incluso un guiño a un clásico de Chuck Berry, ‘Little Queenie’. Número cinco: Don’t stop me now, de 1978 e incluida en su LP Jazz Con su ritmo endiablado y su mensaje de “voy a comerme el mundo”, es mejor que cualquier libro de autoayuda. Aunque es un tema inequívoco de rock, no hay guitarra excepto en el solo: conseguir esa potencia solo con piano, bajo y batería es algo que no está al alcance de cualquiera. La rica discografía de Queen permite que sucedan cosas como esta: que un tema que en su momento no tuvo especial repercusión sea redescubierto con el paso de los años —gracias a la publicidad y el cine— y hoy figure entre sus títulos más emblemáticos. Mercury debió de escribir la letra en un momento de especial subidón, utilizando la astronomía como metáfora de su excitación febril: “Soy una estrella fugaz saltando por el cielo”, “viajo a la velocidad de la luz”, “soy un cohete de camino a Marte” o “soy un satélite fuera de control” son algunas de esas referencias. Aunque la frase más redonda es: “Estoy ardiendo a través del cielo a 200 grados, por eso me llaman míster Fahrenheit”. En 2014, en el Reino Unido la eligieron como la mejor canción para conducir. Vamos al número cuatro: “Under Pressure”, de 1981 e incluida en el disco “Hot Space”. Artista invitado: David Bowie. A veces, unas pequeñas notas tocadas como si nada, lo son todo. Por ejemplo: el bajo de esta canción. Bueno, pues resulta que la colaboración entre dos colosos como Freddie Mercury y David Bowie, se recuerda por ese sonido de bajo de John Deacon. Lo que no está claro es si fue idea de Deacon o si Deacon la tocó, luego se le olvidó y la recordó Bowie con alguna aportación. La canción tiene mucho más: un duelo vocal que no es tal, ya que Bowie y Mercury se van alternando en la ejecución de forma tan fluida como sorprendentemente generosa, si tenemos en cuenta el volumen de sus egos respectivos. En cualquier caso, de dos artistas colosales que no estaban ni mucho menos en su mejor momento sale una obra maestra como “Under Pressure”. Bowie venía del tibio “Scary Monsters” y Queen estaban exhaustos después de años de éxito. Se juntaron en Suiza y salió esta pieza firmada por los cinco en la que se trabajó de forma colectiva para que luego Freddie y David se pelearan en la última fase del proceso. “ La mezcla final no me pareció buena. Fue el momento en el que Freddie y David batallaran duramente por imponer sus criterios”, ha revelado Brian May. En tercera posición: Somebady to Love, de 1976 e incluida en el disco “A day at the races” Cuatro rockeros ingleses sonando como un coro góspel de cien personas. Y, al mismo tiempo, 100% Queen. Tras el éxito de 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Mercury intentó hacer algo parecido en el siguiente disco, 'A Day at The Races'. Con una variante: en vez de inspirarse en la tradición operística europea, lo hizo en el góspel estadounidense. “Es nuevo, es ligeramente diferente”, explicó Freddie a la revista 'Circus' en 1977. “Pero aún suena a los Queen de siempre”. En la misma entrevista, el batería Roger Taylor explicó que este tema “está muy influido por Aretha Franklin. Freddie está muy colgado con ella”. A diferencia de 'Bohemian rhapsody', se acerca más al formato estándar de canción de rock. Compuesta por Mercury al piano, la letra va dirigida a Dios, a quien pide explicaciones por una vida vacía de amor: “Me he pasado la vida creyendo en ti pero no encuentro alivio, Señor”. El arreglo de los coros es verdaderamente soberbio. Llegó al número dos en la lista de ventas británica. Mocedades (sí, Mocedades) grabó en 1981 una notable versión ('Amar a alguien'); parece que para conseguir el permiso de Mercury un representante de la discográfica tocó el timbre de su casa de Londres y le puso 'Eres tú', tras lo cual accedió. Y ya estamos en el número dos: I Want to Break Free de 1984 e incluida en el disco ‘The Works’ Si Queen vivieron una segunda edad dorada en los ochenta fue por temas como este. Aunque la mayor parte del repertorio de Queen nació de la pluma de Freddie Mercury, el bajista John Deacon escribió unos cuantos temas, de los que este y 'Another one bites the dust' son los más logrados y famosos. Construido con una base electrónica, cuenta con un solo de sintetizador memorable a cargo del canadiense Fred Mandel. Por el divertido vídeo, en el que los componentes del grupo aparecen vestidos de mujer realizando tareas domésticas (una parodia de la serie 'Coronation street'), algunos dieron por sentado que el tema era una declaración de la sexualidad de Mercury; pero el autor, como decimos, es Deacon, y la idea del vídeo fue del batería Roger Taylor. Si el público ya conocía el talento y la fuerza del grupo, ahora supo de su capacidad de reinvención, recuperando el aplauso masivo del público con esta y otras canciones en plena era de los teclados y las hombreras. En la actualidad, Deacon lleva una vida tranquila de sexagenario alejado de los focos. Y, por fin, el número uno: Bohemian Rhapsody, de 1975 e incluida en el disco “A night at the Opera” Con esta canción, estos cuatro tíos hicieron volar por los aires la estructura clásica de rock (estrofas y un estribillo que se repite) y se las arreglaron para insertar seis canciones en una. Tiene partes de ópera. Cascadas de voces. Una introducción a capella. Referencias a Galileo y Fígaro. La letra es misteriosa y fascinante. Y el solo de guitarra posee vida propia. No está claro qué llevó a Freddie Mercury a escribir este drama sobre un hombre que confiesa a su madre que ha cometido un asesinato y se prepara para ir al infierno. Algunos biógrafos apuntan a que se trata de una metáfora sobre la ruptura de Mercury con su pasado (hasta poco antes había estado saliendo con una chica, Mary Austin) y la aceptación de su homosexualidad. El autor nunca lo aclaró y prefirió alimentar la incógnita. Las múltiples capas de voces supusieron un reto para la tecnología de la época, que se resolvió poniendo a Mercury, May y Taylor a grabar los coros durante jornadas enteras; luego el productor Roy Thomas Baker duplicó docenas de cintas. Pese a que la discográfica no lo veía claro por su duración (casi seis minutos), se publicó como 'single' y fue un gran éxito: número uno durante nueve semanas seguidas en el Reino Unido. Aunque ya se habían rodado vídeos musicales anteriormente, el de esta canción es uno de los primeros en constituir una obra de arte en sí mismo. Queen fue la última banda realmente gigante hasta la aparición de U2, pero eso será otra historia y otro momento. Señoras y Señores, hemos terminado por hoy. Espero y deseo que vuestra vuelta al trabajo o lo que sea, os pase casi casi desapercibida.

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“Mary Austin, I love you dearly beyond anything and even more so now because I cherish myself and I therefore cherish your grandness.” - Freddie Mercury Learn more about this episode of Exponential Intelligence at www.mas-sajady.com/156.

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Mary-Austin, Melissa, and Rebecca discuss the issues found in female friendships

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Love is in the air as we discuss Freddie Mercury's unusual relationship with Mary Austin, one of the dumbest criminals ever, conversation heart phrases, and a Texas zoo that vowed to help people get back at their exes!

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During the early 1970s, aspiring songwriter Farrokh Bulsara, later known as Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek), forms the rock band Queen alongside his new friends Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon with his supportive girlfriend Mary Austin. Their career is successful against all odds of getting their music to be heard. In 1985, the band is given the chance to perform at Live Aid. The film is directed by Bryan Singer.

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This week on StoryWeb: Willa Cather’s novel O Pioneers! for Amy Young For many of us, certain books immediately release a flood of memories – where we were when we first read them, friends and relatives who read the books with us. Such is the case for me with Willa Cather’s 1913 novel, O Pioneers! This wonderful book calls to mind Shepherdstown, West Virginia, almost twenty-five years ago. My new friend Amy and I were sharing book after book, poem after poem, film after film with each other. We’d met in Shepherdstown’s just-opened independent bookstore, Four Seasons Books, where Amy was a sales clerk and I was a customer. Since the beautiful October day that first brought us together, we’d been reveling in our shared love of literature. So it was inevitable that we’d be plopped in front of Amy’s TV when Jessica Lange’s made-for-TV adaptation of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! premiered as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special. Perhaps the Hallmark branding should have tipped us off. It’s not that the movie was terrible. It’s more that it made us laugh – and O Pioneers! is most certainly not a comedy. Of special note was Lange’s feigned Nebraska accent, the overdone quality of which sent Amy and I into fits of laughter. Every three minutes, it seemed, Lange – who was playing the heroine, Alexandra Bergson – sang the praises of “the land.” But this nails-on-a-chalkboard television adaptation didn’t diminish our love of Cather or her marvelous novel. Both Amy and I had read a lot of Cather’s work – My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Song of the Lark, My Mortal Enemy, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, and of course, O Pioneers!, which is perhaps the great work of the prairie. Even if she was a bit tone deaf in her accent, Lange was nevertheless right to emphasize “the land,” for the sheer fact of the land – the huge, sprawling, open, expansive prairie land – is indeed the heart of everything on the Great Plains. Unlikely as it would be in prairie culture and as unpleasant as it is to her brothers, Alexandra Bergson is the primary architect of her family’s land. It falls to her to take their inherited land and shape it into something robust, fertile, productive, rich. That she does just that is the proof Cather offers that a fully realized female protagonist can be a full-on hero of the story, that she can be identified with the land and bring it to its full fruition. Ready to read O Pioneers? You can do so for free at Project Gutenberg, but you’ll probably want a hard copy of this magnificent book. And if you like geeking out on literary criticism, then exploring Willa Cather scholarship will yield significant rewards. I especially recommend my friend Janis Stout’s extensive work on Cather. She has written a biography – Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World – and has edited The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. You might also find her critical study of Cather and Mary Austin interesting: it’s titled Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin. Another of my favorites is Judith Fryer’s completely imaginative response to Cather’s work in Felicitous Space, which looks also at the work of Edith Wharton. For more on Cather, check out the earlier StoryWeb post on My Ántonia. For links to all these resources, visit thestoryweb.com/pioneers. When I think of Willa Cather, I think of my dear friend Amy. What books take you back in time? Listen now as I read Chapter Two of Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! In this scene, the dying patriarch, John Bergson, bequeaths the family land to his daughter, Alexandra.   On one of the ridges of that wintry waste stood the low log house in which John Bergson was dying. The Bergson homestead was easier to find than many another, because it overlooked Norway Creek, a shallow, muddy stream that sometimes flowed, and sometimes stood still, at the bottom of a winding ravine with steep, shelving sides overgrown with brush and cottonwoods and dwarf ash. This creek gave a sort of identity to the farms that bordered upon it. Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. The houses on the Divide were small and were usually tucked away in low places; you did not see them until you came directly upon them. Most of them were built of the sod itself, and were only the unescapable ground in another form. The roads were but faint tracks in the grass, and the fields were scarcely noticeable. The record of the plow was insignificant, like the feeble scratches on stone left by prehistoric races, so indeterminate that they may, after all, be only the markings of glaciers, and not a record of human strivings. In eleven long years John Bergson had made but little impression upon the wild land he had come to tame. It was still a wild thing that had its ugly moods; and no one knew when they were likely to come, or why. Mischance hung over it. Its Genius was unfriendly to man. The sick man was feeling this as he lay looking out of the window, after the doctor had left him, on the day following Alexandra's trip to town. There it lay outside his door, the same land, the same lead-colored miles. He knew every ridge and draw and gully between him and the horizon. To the south, his plowed fields; to the east, the sod stables, the cattle corral, the pond,—and then the grass. Bergson went over in his mind the things that had held him back. One winter his cattle had perished in a blizzard. The next summer one of his plow horses broke its leg in a prairiedog hole and had to be shot. Another summer he lost his hogs from cholera, and a valuable stallion died from a rattlesnake bite. Time and again his crops had failed. He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and death. Now, when he had at last struggled out of debt, he was going to die himself. He was only forty-six, and had, of course, counted upon more time. Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. He had paid off his mortgages and had ended pretty much where he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery and distinguish himself in a Swedish athletic club. So far John had not attempted to cultivate the second half-section, but used it for pasture land, and one of his sons rode herd there in open weather. John Bergson had the Old-World belief that land, in itself, is desirable. But this land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. He had an idea that no one understood how to farm it properly, and this he often discussed with Alexandra. Their neighbors, certainly, knew even less about farming than he did. Many of them had never worked on a farm until they took up their homesteads. They had been HANDWERKERS at home; tailors, locksmiths, joiners, cigar-makers, etc. Bergson himself had worked in a shipyard. For weeks, John Bergson had been thinking about these things. His bed stood in the sitting-room, next to the kitchen. Through the day, while the baking and washing and ironing were going on, the father lay and looked up at the roof beams that he himself had hewn, or out at the cattle in the corral. He counted the cattle over and over. It diverted him to speculate as to how much weight each of the steers would probably put on by spring. He often called his daughter in to talk to her about this. Before Alexandra was twelve years old she had begun to be a help to him, and as she grew older he had come to depend more and more upon her resourcefulness and good judgment. His boys were willing enough to work, but when he talked with them they usually irritated him. It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets, and who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. It was Alexandra who could always tell about what it had cost to fatten each steer, and who could guess the weight of a hog before it went on the scales closer than John Bergson himself. Lou and Oscar were industrious, but he could never teach them to use their heads about their work. Alexandra, her father often said to himself, was like her grandfather; which was his way of saying that she was intelligent. John Bergson's father had been a shipbuilder, a man of considerable force and of some fortune. Late in life he married a second time, a Stockholm woman of questionable character, much younger than he, who goaded him into every sort of extravagance. On the shipbuilder's part, this marriage was an infatuation, the despairing folly of a powerful man who cannot bear to grow old. In a few years his unprincipled wife warped the probity of a lifetime. He speculated, lost his own fortune and funds entrusted to him by poor seafaring men, and died disgraced, leaving his children nothing. But when all was said, he had come up from the sea himself, had built up a proud little business with no capital but his own skill and foresight, and had proved himself a man. In his daughter, John Bergson recognized the strength of will, and the simple direct way of thinking things out, that had characterized his father in his better days. He would much rather, of course, have seen this likeness in one of his sons, but it was not a question of choice. As he lay there day after day he had to accept the situation as it was, and to be thankful that there was one among his children to whom he could entrust the future of his family and the possibilities of his hard-won land. The winter twilight was fading. The sick man heard his wife strike a match in the kitchen, and the light of a lamp glimmered through the cracks of the door. It seemed like a light shining far away. He turned painfully in his bed and looked at his white hands, with all the work gone out of them. He was ready to give up, he felt. He did not know how it had come about, but he was quite willing to go deep under his fields and rest, where the plow could not find him. He was tired of making mistakes. He was content to leave the tangle to other hands; he thought of his Alexandra's strong ones. "DOTTER," he called feebly, "DOTTER!" He heard her quick step and saw her tall figure appear in the doorway, with the light of the lamp behind her. He felt her youth and strength, how easily she moved and stooped and lifted. But he would not have had it again if he could, not he! He knew the end too well to wish to begin again. He knew where it all went to, what it all became. His daughter came and lifted him up on his pillows. She called him by an old Swedish name that she used to call him when she was little and took his dinner to him in the shipyard. "Tell the boys to come here, daughter. I want to speak to them." "They are feeding the horses, father. They have just come back from the Blue. Shall I call them?" He sighed. "No, no. Wait until they come in. Alexandra, you will have to do the best you can for your brothers. Everything will come on you." "I will do all I can, father." "Don't let them get discouraged and go off like Uncle Otto. I want them to keep the land." "We will, father. We will never lose the land." There was a sound of heavy feet in the kitchen. Alexandra went to the door and beckoned to her brothers, two strapping boys of seventeen and nineteen. They came in and stood at the foot of the bed. Their father looked at them searchingly, though it was too dark to see their faces; they were just the same boys, he told himself, he had not been mistaken in them. The square head and heavy shoulders belonged to Oscar, the elder. The younger boy was quicker, but vacillating. "Boys," said the father wearily, "I want you to keep the land together and to be guided by your sister. I have talked to her since I have been sick, and she knows all my wishes. I want no quarrels among my children, and so long as there is one house there must be one head. Alexandra is the oldest, and she knows my wishes. She will do the best she can. If she makes mistakes, she will not make so many as I have made. When you marry, and want a house of your own, the land will be divided fairly, according to the courts. But for the next few years you will have it hard, and you must all keep together. Alexandra will manage the best she can." Oscar, who was usually the last to speak, replied because he was the older, "Yes, father. It would be so anyway, without your speaking. We will all work the place together." "And you will be guided by your sister, boys, and be good brothers to her, and good sons to your mother? That is good. And Alexandra must not work in the fields any more. There is no necessity now. Hire a man when you need help. She can make much more with her eggs and butter than the wages of a man. It was one of my mistakes that I did not find that out sooner. Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder. Keep turning the land, and always put up more hay than you need. Don't grudge your mother a little time for plowing her garden and setting out fruit trees, even if it comes in a busy season. She has been a good mother to you, and she has always missed the old country." When they went back to the kitchen the boys sat down silently at the table. Throughout the meal they looked down at their plates and did not lift their red eyes. They did not eat much, although they had been working in the cold all day, and there was a rabbit stewed in gravy for supper, and prune pies. John Bergson had married beneath him, but he had married a good housewife. Mrs. Bergson was a fair-skinned, corpulent woman, heavy and placid like her son, Oscar, but there was something comfortable about her; perhaps it was her own love of comfort. For eleven years she had worthily striven to maintain some semblance of household order amid conditions that made order very difficult. Habit was very strong with Mrs. Bergson, and her unremitting efforts to repeat the routine of her old life among new surroundings had done a great deal to keep the family from disintegrating morally and getting careless in their ways. The Bergsons had a log house, for instance, only because Mrs. Bergson would not live in a sod house. She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat. When the children were little she used to load them all into the wagon, the baby in its crib, and go fishing herself. Alexandra often said that if her mother were cast upon a desert island, she would thank God for her deliverance, make a garden, and find something to preserve. Preserving was almost a mania with Mrs. Bergson. Stout as she was, she roamed the scrubby banks of Norway Creek looking for fox grapes and goose plums, like a wild creature in search of prey. She made a yellow jam of the insipid ground-cherries that grew on the prairie, flavoring it with lemon peel; and she made a sticky dark conserve of garden tomatoes. She had experimented even with the rank buffalo-pea, and she could not see a fine bronze cluster of them without shaking her head and murmuring, "What a pity!" When there was nothing more to preserve, she began to pickle. The amount of sugar she used in these processes was sometimes a serious drain upon the family resources. She was a good mother, but she was glad when her children were old enough not to be in her way in the kitchen. She had never quite forgiven John Bergson for bringing her to the end of the earth; but, now that she was there, she wanted to be let alone to reconstruct her old life in so far as that was possible. She could still take some comfort in the world if she had bacon in the cave, glass jars on the shelves, and sheets in the press. She disapproved of all her neighbors because of their slovenly housekeeping, and the women thought her very proud. Once when Mrs. Bergson, on her way to Norway Creek, stopped to see old Mrs. Lee, the old woman hid in the haymow "for fear Mis' Bergson would catch her barefoot."    

Writer Mary Austin Holley introduced English-speaking readers of the 1830s and '40s to Texas, which she called a land of "surpassing beauty . . . a splendid country." Sadly, she died of yellow fever in 1846 and never settled in the place that had captured her heart, but her work provides invaluable accounts of life in early Texas.