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"Today we visit the location of Grinder's Stand at an exhibit called MERIWETHER LEWIS. Meriwether Lewis was President Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary when the United States made the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. Meriwether became leader of the famous LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION and explored trails all the way to the pacific northwest. When Lewis returned, President Jefferson appointed Captain Lewis governor of upper Louisiana, replacing the controversial General James Wilkinson who had convinced President Jefferson to look into charges of treason against his vice president Aaron Burr. "Meriwether Lewis had his headquarters in St. Louis, and in 1809 he left there headed for Washington to settle some accounts he felt were due him from the government. He traveled down the Mississippi River to Fort Pickering where Lewis and his traveling companions were joined by the U.S. Agent to the Chickasaws, James Neely . They went east through Chickasaw country and crossed the Tennessee River to join the Old Trace heading north. "On October the 10th, 1809, thunderstorms hit them and Lewis made it into Grinder's Stand ahead of his companions. During that night Lewis was shot. He died as the sun was rising October 11, 1809. He was only 35 years old. "On our next program we will look further at Lewis's death." For more about Natchez Trace: A Road Through the Wilderness, visit eddieandfrank.com

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Episode 3 - Surviving All The Rites Of Passage - And Smaug The Dragon!   Hi, I'm Christy Shriver and we're here to discuss books that have changed the world and have changed us.    I'm Garry Shriver and this is the How to love lit Podcast.  Today is our third episode discussing the book that changed Tolkien's life forever, The Hobbit.  In episode one we spent most of our discussion talking about Tolkien, the man and the world in which he lived.  Episode 2 we talked about Tolkien's secondary world, the concept behind it and the Silmarillion. We read through Bilbo's adventures in the Misty Mountains, his meeting with Gollum and his discovery of the magical ring.  Today, we will journey onward all the way to the next mountain – The Lonely Mountain and we'll meet its chief resident- Smaug!!    Smaug!!  Everyone has to love Smaug- Tolkien always loved dragons since he was a little boy, and really through him I have developed a new appreciation for them.     On a personal level, he used dragons psychologically to deal with difficulties throughout his life.  When his mother died and he had to live with a cruel relative, he looked for them.  He did the same thing after he moved to boarding school and later on in the war.  So, in a sense, dragons were an old friend- a way to conceptualize and manage a danger beyond what he knew how to manage.      And of course, when it came time to flesh out his own dragon in storyform, he went back to the mythology he studied and loved to find more than one model to draw from.  If you're a student who's studied British literature, you will definitely see a few elements of Beowulf in Smaug, but the more influential of Smaug's antecedents was Fafnir, a treasure-hoarding dragon from a Norse epic.  Tolkien said this about dragons, “Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fafnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.” Like Smaug, Fafnir has a giant hoard of gold that is his main preoccupation. Smaug also like Fafnir is a talking dragon and talks to the hero. In the Hobbit of course, that is Bilbo, but in the Norse story, his name was Sigurd.   Before we get into all of that and the many other antagonists Bilbo meets before he gets to Smaug, We need to make mention of Tolkien's very famous relationship with another writer of fantasy, CS Lewis and their little group they called the Inklings.    Yeah, those two really are an interesting pair.  Tolkien and Lewis met at a faculty meeting in 1926 at Oxford University.  Lewis in his diary ironically described Tolkien and I quote, “a smooth, pale fluent little chap- no harm in him: only needs a smack or so.”  Lewis was already well-established in the English faculty- Tolkien was on the linguistics and history of languages side and actually didn't like  almost any literature that wasn't written after the medieval period.  In other words, Lewis was from the beginning the more recognized and ultimately more celebrated of the two men.    What drew them together initially was this common love of myths and old literary histories no one else really cared about.  But they actually had a lot in common besides that.  They were both pretty leery of technology- for example neither one of them had a car.  They both pretty much ignored current politics.  Both of them had served in and survived WW1, and both of them had lost their parents as children.    We might have mentioned this in episode one, but Tolkien, now famously started his first little literary club they called TCBS when he was in high school before the war.  He and his friends would get together and read original compositions to each other while drinking tea.  If you've seen the movie Tolkien, that's the part of Tolkien's life that movie features, but as an adult, Tolkien started a more famous little club or a literary society for the same purpose.  This one was called the Inklings and consisted of several male friends doing basically the same thing.  They would get together there in Oxford in a pub called The Eagle and Child. It was in the back of the pub in a little room called the Rabbit Room, that all the creative magic happened.  The men met here every Tuesday morning from 1939-1962.  They would bring whatever chapters they had written that week from the books they were writing- not academic writing, but fun stories and they would read them out loud to teach other.  The original purpose was just to have a creative outlet for  male-bonding, if I can use that word- friendship making.  It was a reason to get together.  They would smoke, drink beer, discuss the stories.  Tolkien called Lewis Jack, and Lewis called him “Tollers”.  But obviously out of it came products- for its two most famous members- that ultimately were highly monetized.  I will add that Lewis and Tolkien weren't the only Inklings- they are just the two we all know.      Those two were such a funny pair, in my view as I read what they said to each other and then about each other.  Some of it was sweet, but some of it really wasn't.  Tolkien said later on in life and I quote, “The unpayable debt That I owe to Lewis was not influence as it is ordinarily understood but sheer encouragement…He was for long my only audience.  Only from him did I ever get the idea that my stuff could be more than a private hobby.  But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought the Lord of the Rings to a conclusion.”  Which is so sweet, but then he goes on to admit that he didn't like any of the Narnia books and Lewis didn't really like the Lord of the Rings.  Tolkien said that the Narnia books and I quote, were “outside the range of my sympathy, as much of my world was outside his.  Isn't that strange- and many of us, or at least I'll speak for myself- I love both worlds.  He also said four years after Lewis' death that, “to tell the truth, Jack never really liked Hobbits very much.” Lewis complained and Tolkien and again I'll quote “Tollers was a perfectionist and never keen to accept advice, “His standard of self-criticism was high and the mere suggestion of publication usually set him upon a revision.”    They kind of sound like two cranky old men from the get go.      Well, they kind of were and yet their lives and successes were intricately linked.  The most famous moment in their relationship happened on September 19, 1931.  The men were walking the grounds of the university one evening and started talking about spiritual things.  Lewis was an atheist who absolutely could not grasp Christian theology – things admittedly difficult for a secularly trained academic- things like the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Tolkien was a devout Catholic absolutely committed and thoroughly well-grounded in theology.  The conversation they had about these two vastly different worldviews went on until 3am, and a lot of it is documented.  Lewis famously said that night, “Myths are lies.”  Tolkien countered, from a life time of study and said, “Myths are not lies.”  He spent the night illustrating for Lewis in a convincing way that all of the ancient pagan mythology he had spent a life-time studying actually illustrated and supported key points of the gospel of Christianity and was in full harmony with the Christian ideals.  For those of us less familiar with ancient mythology the only example of his we might recognize would be Beowulf, an example he used extensively to make his point.  For Tolkien mythology contained all the truth of human experience as it was passed down from generation to generation.  He said this, “we, the moderns, are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants (the ancients).  The ideas of superior good, honor, chivalry so essential to the mythology Tolkien and Lewis loved were actually Christian virtues fleshed out in story form- Tolkien argued that myths reflect a fragment of the true light. At the end of the night he concluded with the famous line, “The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with tremendous difference that it really happened.”      And of course from there, Lewis converted and became probably one of the most famous apologists of Christianity in the modern era.  In that way, just as Lewis launched Tolkien's career as a fantasy writer, Tolkien launched Lewis' as an apologist- and we all know that Lewis' fame, at least in his day, far exceeded Tolkien's.    Yes, and I think over time that got old for Tolkien.  Tolkien wrote in 1964 about the souring of their relationship that happened later in their lives.  He said this, “We saw less and less of one another…after the influence of Charles Williams and still less after his very strange marriage”.  It's kind of sad really.  Lewis was actually 7 years younger than Tolkien, but died ten years before Tolkien did.  When Lewis died -which by the way was the same day JFK was shot, Tolkien wrote his daughter that Jack's passing “feels like an axe-blow near the roots.”  I guess, even though they were estranged the bond was still deep.    Well, of course, all that rivalry likely felt petty at that point in his life.  Anyway, I know that was a tangent, but because that relationship is so famous, it felt wrong not to talk about it.      Absolutely, and really, I find it fascinating especially when you see how important platonic relationships are in all of Tolkien's writings and really to him as a human.  Of course, the relationship between Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings is the most famous, but even here in the Hobbit, we watch Bilbo really bond with the dwarves and then Gandalf in his own way.  Loyalty is a recurrent theme in almost every chapter from here to the end of the book.    We left off last week in our discussion in chapter 5 and today we'll try to make it all the way to chapter 15.  What we see in these chapters is an obvious pattern – in every single chapter, Bilbo and the dwarves meet a challenge, and we get to watch Bilbo slowly grow up eventually morphing into a leader and ultimately our hero.  In chapter 6, Bilbo isn't very noble.  He's quite helpless horrified and hanging on for dear life while being carried away by eagles to avoid being eaten by wolves.  In chapter 7, we meet what today we call a “shape-shifter” but Tolkien describes Beorn as a skin-changer.    When I read Beorn's description at first, I thought the book was saying that he shed his skin or something, but it really means he can turn into a bear whenever he wants to.  He's what we call a super-hero or at least an X-man.      Exactly, here Tolkien is a precursor- to Marvel!! But of course, Beorn, although he does surface at the end of the book as an important figure, he's not our hero.  Our emerging hero is Bilbo and here again, Bilbo is small- unimpressive- in many ways, clearly out of his league.  What is important, in terms of character development here is that at the end this chapter, Gandalf leaves.  And Gandalf up to this point has been the leader.  He's the one that has been guiding the group and basically getting this hapless band of travelers out of trouble over and over again.  From what we have seen so far, there should be no way, this little band of misfits survives two days on their own.     And of course, this is where a child would really identify with Bilbo, even though Bilbo is a 50 year old man.  In a sense, Bilbo has to grow up now and do it fast- ready or not- what do you do when your life coach, your guide, or your guardian walks away and leaves you to face life challenges by yourself?  Every child or young adult has to face this at some time.  And by definition, this is a horrifying and life-altering experience.     Exactly, the very definition of coming of age- and really the Hobbit is a story about that in between phase in life- and this is where I say, although the book isn't allegorical, it's obviously archetypal and those of you who love psychology have a lot to talk about here.  I vividly remember this point in my own life.  I've mentioned many times that I was raised in Brazil.  What I haven't mentioned is how I got back the US.  When I was 17 years old, I graduated from high school.  My parents brought me back to the United States to attend college- admittedly an amazing privilege for any young adult on planet earth.  They gave me car although I had never driven before, taught me how to do laundry at the public laundromat, and then dropped me off at a university in a place I had never been before in my entire life.  I felt every bit like Bilbo the day I watched them drive away.  I will never forget the feelings I felt in those days.  I was horrified.  I might as well as have been dropped off in Mirkwood forest with gigantic spiders.  In fact, that's basically how I felt about the whole thing.  I wanted to rise to the challenge and not disappoint my parents or myself, but I honestly had no idea if I could or how I would.  And of course, I might add, that like Bilbo -what happened next was a collection of ups and downs- wins and losses-, I experienced my own hiccups along the way- for example flipping and totally  my car pretty much weeks after I got it.    Well, true, and although my story isn't quite that dramatic, going to a big university after living in Lawson, a small town of 1,500 people, pretty much felt exactly the same way.  That story of growing up and facing the adult world is replicated in the life of every child in every culture in every era- although it looks differently from culture to culture- spiders and forests and eagles and wolves are great illustrations of how these growing up experiences feel.  And I like the idea that Tolkien threw in- this little concept of the “dream-dinner” where every once in a while you just go to your happy place in your mind and have a “dream-dinner” of what life used to be like in that comfortable place in your hobbit hole- whatever that is for you…for me, it was my old bedroom jamming out with my first electric guitar.    And of course, it's in the forest with the spiders that Bilbo begins having victories and getting his confidence up.  He becomes a leader.  He rescues the dwarves pretty much all by himself from the spiders.  Then in chapter 9, he has to rescue them again from the wood-elves.      I also want to point out that Bilbo learns to use the tools at his disposal and this is a very important developmental concept.  Bilbo is little.  He will never be a wizard or an elf; he won't even be a dwarf- and he doesn't ever one time bemoan what he isn't.  Bilbo accepts himself, takes on this identity as a burglar= although he's obviously the most honest burglar ever- but he hones the things about him that are personal strengths and gets better at those things.  He's quiet, so can go around undetected.  He has his little knife that he affectionately names “sting” and he learns how to use that.  These are all things, all people who develop healthy self-esteems eventually learn to do.  I have to identify and maximize MY personal strengths and stop looking at others or trying to be them.  Bilbo can never be a wizard or a dwarf, but a hobbit has its own advantages, as all readers of this book will soon discover.     And he clings to certain moral values.  Hence the claim some have made that Tolkien's books are Christian morality tales, and maybe there is a sense in which that's true as he writes from his own morality, but in more obvious sense they are not.  There is no God in Middle earth. There are no churches. No one prays.  You'd think if were lost by yourself in the dark, you'd find yourself praying, but that doesn't even come out as a joke in this book.  The primary super natural element in this book is magic.  Having more interestingly and perhaps less overtly, we also see a second supernatural element- and that is the one of  prophecy and  this guiding hand of providence- Gandalf primarily revisits this time and time again- but none of that surfaces here with just Bilbo and the dwarves.  What we see in these chapters is little Bilbo learning to fend for himself- self-reliance.  What do you do when no one is coming to rescue you?    Well, in the case of the wood-elves, you stuff all of your friends into barrels, hop on a barrel yourself and float down a river in the middle of the night.    That seemed to do the trick- and then you make friends with people with resources once you climb out of said barrels.  By the time we get to chapter ten and Bilbo gets the dwarves out of those barrels, there is no doubt that he has become their leader.  Let's read that part.    “Well! Here we are!” said Thorin.  “And I suppose we ought to thank our stars and Mr. Baggins.  I am sure he has a right to expect it, though I wish he could have arranged a more comfortable journey.  Still-all very much at your service once more, Mr. Baggins. No doubt we shall feel properly grateful when we are fed and recovered.  In the meanwhile what next?”  I suggest Lake-town, “said Bilbo. “What else is there?”    Bilbo is now answering the question- of what are we going to do next.  Later on it says this, Garry read that little paragraph towards the end of chapter 10 (page 183)    Bilbo is now thinking like a leader.  While everyone else is enjoying the food and rest, he's worried about what is coming next, and we know that is Smaug.  Our favorite villain.  Bilbo has to face the dragon- there's another big life-metaphor.    I think it's important to really emphasize that when Tolkien wrote this book, he was deliberately writing a book for children.  It's unusual that a book for children only has old people in it- Gandalf, the dwarves are old and even though Bilbo seems the youngest, he's not a child at all.  But, from a psychological perspective, the book pretty much is an attempt to illustrate the importance of rites of passage when we grow up- and building the ability to face the chaos of your world.  A dragon is nothing if not the primary historical archetype for chaos- that's what dragons do- they destroy, they wreck havoc.  If you think of every rite of passage as a door to the next phase of your life which basically is an invitation to another set of challenges or another place of chaos, in the Hobbit- there's basically a real door that Bilbo has to open to get to the next phase of his journey.  The book opens with a door, Gandalf leaves the special words on Bilbo's door, and now in chapter 11, we find Bilbo once again sitting on a door and he's left with options.  He can go back, he can sit forever (which doesn't seem very practical), or he can go through the door- walk right into the dark and the awaiting chaos.      Yes- and the struggle inside of himself is expressed as the two family trees inside of him- and I will enjoy the fact that the strong adventurous side or the Took side came from his mother, while the reserved timid side came from the Baggins side or his father's side.    Of course, you would enjoy that detail.      I love the line, something Tookish woke up inside of him.  But back to the door to the lonely mountain “A door five feet high and three feet wide was outlined, and slowly without a swound swung inwards.  It seemed as if darkness flowed out like a vapour from the hole in the mountain-side, and deep darkness in which nothing could be seen lay before their eyes, a yawning mouth leading in and down.”    And of course as all of them look into the hole, they look to Bilbo.  Read Thorin's lines at the beginning of chapter 12,     “Now is the time for our esteemed Mr. Baggins, who has proved himself a good companion on our long road, and a hobbit full of course and resource far exceeding his size, and if I may say so possessed of good luck far exceeding the usual allowance- now is the time for him to perform the service for which he was included in our Company; now is the time for him to earn his Reward.”    And of course, I love Bilbo's response.  He's not the same hobbit.      (read page 195).  ‘    Exactly, Bilbo has come into his own understanding of his own worth and is not intimidated nor flattered by Thorin's words.  He wants Thorin to own the fact that he is their equal if not their superior. In the words and the world of Tolkien, “Dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.”    Such an interesting distinction.  And I guess, that's true for a lot of people- most people, I guess are not heroes.  They are not bad people, but mostly self-serving and are decent enough if you don't expect too much- there's a little Tolkien philosophy for you.    Well, if you haven't seen that in dwarves yet- the end of the story really doesn't make dwarves look all that great, but I guess we'll wait for next week to talk about that.  That little line is just a foreshadowing.    I think so, because it's in this part of the book that Bilbo most certainly IS a hero.  He's selfless; he takes responsibility; he watches out for his friends when he doesn't have to, he fulfills his commitments even when the other side doesn't really act in good faith all of the time, all of the things heroes do.  And of course- he has to face the dragon alone.     And in some sense, there we have the ultimate life metaphor- Bilbo found a purpose in his comfortable existence.  Life chose him for a moment of greatness; it is obvious from the beginning of the story that facing a dragon was not a life-long aspiration, but somehow this meaningful experience has manifested itself- and Bilbo will be changed forever based on what happens from this point forward.  And that is very much the human experience in a nutshell.      I want to read how Tolkien puts it- page 197    Dragons are important in every culture- we can go back to the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Indians, the Babylonians myths all of them have dragons.  Even Judeo-Christian culture can claim a dragon if you consider that a snake is a form of a dragon.  There is no single prototype for what a dragon means- there are differences.  The Chinese dragon is life-giving.  But that is definitely not Smaug's case.  Persian dragons, btw, are known to be creatures who hoard treasure and were slain by heroes.  What it means to “face the dragon” like we see here in this story is something we see in lots of stories and it usually is something positive- the experience of facing the dragon is meant to benefit the one who does indeed- face the dragon.    Well, in this story, it definitely works out that way.  First, Bilbo steals from Smaug then runs away.  Next he engages and talks to Smaug – even getting a little sassy.  And what we see in Smaug is again another moral component to the story- Smaug ultimately is taken down, not by Bilbo, but by himself- his own character flaw.  Smaug is greedy.  He is outraged that someone has taken something from him, and of course, Tolkien compares it when a rich person loses their mind over losing something they haven't ever cared about until they lost it.  That's kind of a funny jab.      But in Smaug's case, he loses his mind.  Bilbo and the dwarves have to make a decision to lock themselves INSIDE the mountain just to keep from getting killed from Smaug's exit out of the mountain.  Let's read this exciting description    Page 213    And of course, the spoiler is- the dragon is going nuts- people are running trying to escape, and it looks like all will be lost, but a bird who can speak to humans overhears Bilbo describe for the dwarves Smaug's one little weakspot.  She tells another bird to whispers this secret into the ear of a noble human, who with his very last arrow looks into the moonlight to see Smaug's only little weakness and shoots him down.  It's all very dramatic.    Yes- it is dramatic and exciting and although that would seem like the end of the story- the most exciting part is yet to come.  A WAR!!  Which is what we'll talk about next week.  A war will break out- it turns out that a mountain full of gold is something to fight about.    Ha!  I think it most certainly is.  I will look forward to the riveting conclusion.      Thanks for listening……   

Today is March 8, International Women's Day, and on this day I suggest that we listen to Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and her work for civil justice. This episode was previously released on Jan. 22, 2021. In this episode of Back in America, I speak with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, political consultant, and activist. She recently ran to represent Maryland’s 7th District in Congress after undergoing a double mastectomy. Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is the widow of Congressman Elijah Cummings, a good friend of former Congressman John Lewis. When Lewis died in 2020, hundreds of Twitter account accidentally posted memorial photos of Cummings since the two looked so much alike! On Back in America, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore. Cummings discusses the ongoing fight for civil rights. “I fight for the right to exist. I fight for the right of everyone to be recognized on the level of our common humanity. I fight for the history in this country that has been suppressed. I am the fourth generation from slavery in this country. My parents grew up in the Jim Crow South. My late husband, Elijah Cummings grew up in the Jim Crow South. They were born into a world that denied African Americans the right to exist,” she said. We also spoke of Black feminism and the importance for Black women to take charge of their struggle against racist and institutionalized patriarchy. In recent months, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings has been working to publish We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy, her husband’s final, unfinished book. The book came out last September and she talks to me about the importance of getting her husband’s voice out there. We're Better Than This - My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy  

In this episode of Back in America, I speak with Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, political consultant, and activist. She recently ran to represent Maryland’s 7th District in Congress after undergoing a double mastectomy. Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is the widow of Congressman Elijah Cummings, a good friend of former Congressman John Lewis. When Lewis died in 2020, hundreds of Twitter account accidentally posted memorial photos of Cummings since the two looked so much alike! On Back in America, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore. Cummings discusses the ongoing fight for civil rights. “I fight for the right to exist. I fight for the right of everyone to be recognized on the level of our common humanity. I fight for the history in this country that has been suppressed. I am the fourth generation from slavery in this country. My parents grew up in the Jim Crow South. My late husband, Elijah Cummings grew up in the Jim Crow South. They were born into a world that denied African Americans the right to exist,” she said. We also spoke of Black feminism and the importance for Black women to take charge of their struggle against racist and institutionalized patriarchy.In recent months, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings has been working to publish We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy, her husband’s final, unfinished book. The book came out last September and she talks to me about the importance of getting her husband’s voice out there.We're Better Than This - My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy 

When Lewis and Babs ask the Tarot about their romantic destiny they draw the Death card. 

A message from Green Rush host Anne Donohoe:  Dear Green Rush friends - Happy 150th episode day! The Green Rush podcast started as an experiment three years ago (!) and now, 150 episodes later, we have become one of the “go to” podcasts in the industry! We now get pitched (every day!) by other PR pros wanting their execs to come on. It’s been a wild ride! When we started this, I thought we’d maybe do 10 episodes and call it a day. I mean who else would be willing to talk to us?! Turns out – a lot of people! From “big names” like Jim Belushi, Ziggy Marley, Kevin Smith, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (twice!), Mike Tyson and Senator Tom Daschle, to leaders in the industry like Kevin Murphy, Tahira Rehmatullah, Joe Lusardi, Kris Krane, Chanda Macias, Jeanne Sullivan, Irwin Simon – and the list goes on. We wanted to create a platform where people can come on and have the runway to tell their stories in their own words. We wanted to hear about their personal journeys with cannabis, as well as their entrepreneurial aspirations in this crazy industry. It was created as a space for honest discussion and discourse – with a goal of having our listeners learn something along the way. We hope we have accomplished that goal.  Big HUGE thanks to the KCSA partners, Lewis (Lewis and then Lewis again), Todd & Jeffrey for taking a chance with us. When Lewis and I came to you with this crazy idea – you said run with it. Nick Opich - you are vital! You keep the trains running on the tracks and you’ve stepped into the co-hosting gig with grace, excitement and confidence! Phil Carlson - ditto! Thanks for your counsel, humor and for jumping in when we need you to (Go Bills!). Shea Gunther - we are nowhere without you. Your passion for the industry combined with your podcasting superpowers are amazing! You are constantly saving our butts! Tiffany Rutowski, Cassidy Colarik & the social media team - thank you for all you do to promote the podcast (and dealing with last minute…. well... everything!). Thanks to Derek Friday who is helping us with the relaunch of our newsletter. And all of our guests who have spent time with us…thank you for sharing your stories with our listeners. And to you guys – our friends and colleagues who have listened, provided feedback and supported us every step of the way – we appreciate you ALL! Lastly - our listeners! You are everything! We love every tweet, every email (even the mean ones) and every “like” on our Instagram. Thank you for coming on this crazy ride with us.  While we’re at it, we wanted to share some cool new stuff! Like we alluded to, we’re starting up the newsletter again! So if you want to subscribe - go to our website to sign up or email us at greenrush@kcsa.com and we’ll add you to the list. We also have a YOUTUBE CHANNEL! We won’t record all of the episodes (you don’t want to see that much of us….trust me) but from time to time we’ll record the video and stick it up on the channel. Right now, we have some great initial content up there from interviews with Jim Belushi, Earl Blumenauer, Kevin Smith, etc.  Lastly, we are exploring MERCH! So if you’re interested in a T-shirt, hat, sticker - whatever - drop us a note and tell us what you’d like to see.  Ok really lastly -  social media channels! Follow us, like us, interact with us! We want to give you content that you LIKE and part of that is…. Actually KNOWING what you like. So - don’t be shy - tell us!  And as always, don’t sit back, lean forward and enjoy!  About KCSA Strategic Communications KCSA is a fully integrated communications agency specializing in public relations, shareholder communications and social media, with expertise in cannabis, financial and professional services, technology, healthcare, digital media and energy. Since 1969, the firm has demonstrated strategic thinking and program execution that drives results for its clients in the ever-changing communications and digital landscape.

When Lewis and Clark finally saw the Rocky Mountains, they were expecting something like the Appalachians. Allison imagines that they must have been amazed at how much bigger the Rockies were than they had expected them to be. That's what she says it was like to see God for herself. Allison was raised in a Christian home, but didn't see God in her church. She decided that God wasn't real, but constantly wondered what her purpose was. What was she doing here? When she was invited by a friend to serve some homeless individuals, she began to see God for herself, and it changed her whole life.

Today we celebrate the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavor and the man regarded as the father of North American mycology. We'll learn about the man who patented the first practical lawnmower 198 years ago today. Today's Unearthed Words feature a poet and writer who used the names Flora or Florilla as her pseudonyms. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about one man's adventures with bumblebees. I'll talk about a flexible and tough garden item to help you plant your seedlings, and it is reusable to boot. And then, we'll wrap things up with the story of a woman who knew the botanical world of Nantucket like the back of her hand. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Subscribe Apple|Google|Spotify|Stitcher|iHeart   Curated Articles 2020 Wildflower of the Year – North Carolina Botanical Garden The 2020 North Carolina Wildflower of the Year: marsh-pink (Sabatia angularis "Sah-BAY-tee-ah ANG-you-LARE-iss) @NCBotGarden aka: rose gentian, rose pink, or bitter-bloom. A biennial - Native to US (South & East), Grows in low, wet meadows, woods & along roadsides. Marsh-pink grows best in moist soil in full to partial sun and is infrequently offered in nurseries because of its biennial habit. It seemingly disappears in years of drought,   Vita Sackville-West on her garden at Sissinghurst (1950) | House & Garden Wow. Great share from @_houseandgarden archive: Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst (1950). If you are renovating or starting from scratch - read this & be inspired! "The place had been in the market for three years since the death of the last farmer-owner... Brambles grew in wild profusion; bindweed wreathed its way into every support; ground-elder made a green carpet; docks and nettles flourished; couch­ grass sprouted; half the fruit trees in the orchard were dead; the ones that remained alive were growing in the coarsest grass; the moat was silted up and so invaded by reeds and bulrushes that the water was almost invisible; paths there were none, save of trodden mud. It had its charm. It was Sleeping Beauty's castle with a ven­geance — if you liked to see it with a romantic eye. But, if you also looked at it with a realistic eye, you saw that Nature run wild was not quite so romantic as you thought, and entailed a great deal of laborious tidying up. The most urgent thing to do was to plant hedges. We were extravagant over this, and planted yew, and have never regretted it. Everybody told us it took at least a century to make a good yew hedge, but the photographs will, I think, disprove this: the hedge is now only seventeen years old, a mere adoles­cent, and, at the end where the ground slopes and it has been allowed to grow up in order to maintain the top-level, it is 16 feet high. At the end of all this is the herb garden, which always seems to allure visitors, no doubt because it is a secret, senti­mental little place. "Old world charm" is the phrase I always expect to hear, and nine times out of ten, I get it. But, less romantic­ally, the herb garden does supply very useful things to the kitchen. One needs years of patience to make a garden; one needs deeply to love it in order to endure that patience. One needs optimism and foresight. One has to wait. One has to work hard oneself, sometimes, as I had to work hard, manually, during the war years, cutting all those hedges with shears in my spare time. I hated those hedges when I looked at my blistered hands, but at the same time, I still felt that it had been worthwhile planting them. They were the whole pattern and design and anatomy of the garden, and, as such, was worth any trouble I was willing to take.”   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events 1743 Today is the birthday of Joseph Banks. Banks is best known for his study of Australian flora and fauna and his role as the botanist on board the Endeavor with Captain James Cook. When they landed in Australia, neither Cook nor Banks realized that the quartz reef where they planted the British Flag contained gold. The area would remain untouched by Europeans for almost two more decades. Before returning to England, Cook worried the Endeavor wouldn't make it around the Cape of Good Hope. In a fateful decision, Cook had brought the ship to Batavia, a Dutch colony, to fortify his boat. Batavia was a dangerous place where malaria and dysentery were rampant. As a result of his stop, Cook lost a staggering 38 members of his crew. Banks, and a fellow botanist Daniel Solander, managed to survive the stop, although, at one point, they were both gravely ill. Even as they battled back from illness, they still went out to collect specimens. As gardeners, we owe a great debt to Banks. When he returned to England, it was Joseph Banks who advised George III on the creation of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. And, in 1778, when Linnaeus died, his belongings went up for sale. By then, Joseph Banks was the President of the Linnean Society. Joseph acted quickly, buying everything of horticultural value on behalf of the society. Linnaeus' notebooks and specimens were on a ship bound for England by the time the king of Sweden realized Linnaeus' legacy was no longer in Sweden. He sent a fast Navy ship in pursuit of Banks' precious cargo, but it was too late. And so, Banks secured the legacy of Linnaeus, which is why Linnaeus's collection is in London at the Linnaeus Society's Burlington House. And, Banks helped spread Linnaeus's ideas across the globe, which was easier for him to accomplish since he was based in London, the hub for the science of botany. At his London residence, Banks hired the Scottish botanist Robert Brown to be his botanical librarian. The two became lifelong friends. So much so, that when Banks died in 1820, he left his home, his collections, and his library to Brown, and he also endowed him with a sizeable yearly allowance.   1780Today is the birthday of the Moravian clergyman and botanist Lewis David von Schweinitz, also known as the "Father of North American Mycology." Mycology is the study of fungi. Lewis was born in Pennsylvania, and he was a descendant on his mother's side of Count Zinzendorf - the founder of the Moravian Church. Lewis's home town of Bethlehem Pennsylvania was a Moravian settlement. When Lewis was seven years old, he was placed in a Moravian boarding school called Nazareth Hall. One of Lewis's earliest memories was visiting Nazareth Hall before attending there. He passed by one of the classrooms and saw a specimen of lichen digitatus sitting on a table, and he went to inspect it. It was Lewis's first experience with botany, and it would become his favorite subject. After completing his education, Lewis moved to Niesky, Germany, with his family. He was 18 years old. In Germany, Lewis became a pastor, got married, and studied botany in his spare time. He even managed to help his professor put together a book featuring over 1,000 different types of fungi found in Niesky. Lewis used his natural talent for drawing and painting to created watercolors of the specimens featured, and they are now digitized and available online. After many years in Germany, Lewis and his wife moved back to the United States to lead a Moravian church. They settled in Salem, North Carolina. Although the church was his primary focus, throughout his adulthood, Lewis devoted all of his spare time to the study of fungi. Between 1812 and 1821, Lewis collected in and around Salem North, Carolina. He was essentially replicating the work he had performed in Germany under the direction of his botany professor. In 1818, Lewis published his work on the fungi of North Carolina. Then, four years later, in 1822, Lewis published an even more comprehensive book featuring a staggering 3,000 species of fungi. In all, Lewis single-handedly published over 1,200 new species of fungi. When Lewis died, his enormous herbarium made its way to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. And here's a fun side note that pertains to Lewis Schweinitz: In 1986, botanists discovered the rare sunflower named for Lewis Schweinitz - the Schweinitz sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii) near Rock Hill in South Carolina. The Schweinitz sunflower exists only in about a dozen little pockets around Rock Hill and Charlotte. Lewis, himself, initially discovered the Schweinitz sunflower in 1821.   1822 On this day, Jeremiah Bailey of Chester county, Pennsylvania, patented the first practical lawnmower; it had two wheels and was pulled by a horse. A person could mow up to ten acres a day with Bailey's machine. After locals trialed the device, they reported, “We consider it as one of the most complete and useful labor-saving machines for agricultural uses hitherto invented...” The first genuinely successful machine would be patented ten years later by Obed Hussey of Maryland.   Unearthed Words 1825 Today is the birthday of the heartfelt American poet and writer - known at Rutland's poet and Vermont's unofficial poet laureate - Julia Dorr. As a girl, her pseudonym was Flora or Florillla. The poet William Cullen Bryant once read one of her poems and wrote to tell her how much he loved the beauty of its imagery. And Ralph Waldo Emerson visited her and included one of her poems - called Outgrown - in his book called Parnassus. As you hear today's poems, imagine Julia Dorr writing in her little study next to the parlor. She had a window by her desk that overlooked her flower garden, which she called "her refuge and her inspiration."   Roly-poly honey bee, Humming in the clover, Under you, the tossing leaves And the blue sky over, Why are you so busy, pray? Never still a minute, Hovering now above a flower.  Now half-buried in it! — Honeybee   And all the meadows, wide unrolled,  Were green and silver, green and gold,  Where buttercups and daisies spun  Their shining tissues in the sun.  — Unanswered   I know a spot where the wild vines creep,  And the coral moss-cups grow,  And where at the foot of the rocky steep,  The sweet blue violets blow. —Over the Wall   And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;  Their pure breath sanctifies the air,  As its fragrance fills the night. — A Red Rose   Often I linger where the roses pour  Exquisite odors from each glowing cup;  Or where the violet, brimmed with sweetness o'er,  Lifts its small chalice up.  — Without and Within   Plant a white rose at my feet,  Or a lily fair and sweet,  With the humble mignonette And the blue-eyed violet. — Earth to Earth   Around in silent grandeur stood  The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine  Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — At the Gate   Meadow-sweet or lily fair— Which shall it be? Clematis or brier-rose, Blooming for me? Spicy pink, or violet With the dews of morning wet, Sweet peas or mignonette— Which shall it be? Blue-bells and yellow-bells Swinging in the air; Purple pansies, golden pied; Pink-white daisies, starry-eyed; Gay nasturtiums, deeply dyed, Climbing everywhere. Life is so full, so sweet— How can I choose? If I gather this rose, That I must lose! All are not for me to wear; I can only have my share; Thorns are hiding here and there; How can I choose? — Choosing   O my garden! Lying whitely in the moonlight and the dew, Far across the leagues of distance flies my heart to-night to you, And I see your stately lilies In the tender radiance gleam With a dim, mysterious splendor, like the angels of a dream! I can see the trellised arbor, and the roses crimson And the lances of the larkspurs all glittering, row on row, And the wilderness of hollyhocks, where brown bees seek their spoil, And butterflies dance all day long, in glad and gay turmoil. — Homesick   My true love sent me a valentine  All on a winter's day,  And suddenly the cold gray skies  Grew soft and warm as May!  The snowflakes changed to apple blooms,  A pink- white fluttering crowd,  And on the swaying maple boughs  The robins sang aloud.  For moaning wintry winds, I heard  The music sweet and low  Of morning-glory trumpets  Through which the soft airs blow.  O love of mine, my Valentine!  This is no winter day —  For Love rules all the calendars,  And Love knows only May! —An Answer To A Valentine    Julia died just before her 88th birthday in 1913. In Evergreen Cemetery, in Rutland, Vermont, Julia shares a tombstone with her husband, Seneca. The stone features her poem "Beyond." For your understanding, a barque is a ship with three masts. Beyond the sunset's crimson bars,  Beyond the twilight and the stars,  Beyond the midnight and the dark,  Sail on, sail on, O happy barque.  Into the dawn of that Tomorrow  Where hearts shall find the end of sorrow  And Love shall find its own! — Beyond   Grow That Garden Library A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson The subtitle of this book is My Adventures with Bumblebees. Dave's book is fascinating, and it will change the way you think about bumblebees. When he was a little boy, Dave became obsessed with wildlife. Although he grew up with a menagerie of pets, bumblebees were his passion. I thought you would enjoy hearing a few excerpts from Dave's book. Here's where he talks about the biology of the Bumblebee: “They have to eat almost continually to keep warm; a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation. If a bumblebee runs out of energy, she cannot fly, and if she cannot fly, she cannot get to flowers to get more food, so she is doomed.” Then, here's where Dave tells us what we can do to help the Bumblebee. The answer for gardeners is a pretty simple one. Dave writes: “The key to helping our rarer species to thrive is probably simply to add more flower patches to the landscape, making it a little easier for them to find food and keep their nests well provisioned.” And Dave is hopeful about the future of the Bumblebee And about the impact that each of us can have on their survival. He writes: “Conserving bumblebees is something anyone can do. A single lavender bush on a patio or in a window box will attract and feed bumblebees, even in the heart of a city." And I love that Dave includes this fantastic quote from Andrew Downing, the 19th-century American horticulturist. “The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! ’tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting!” Dave’s book came out in 2014. You can get a used copy of A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $4.   Great Gifts for Gardeners eHabitus Sili-Seedlings Silicone Seed Starting Tray $12.50 100% SILICONE: FDA-approved, BPA free, food-grade silicone. Package quantity: 2, cell size: 2" X 2" X 2.25" STERILIZABLE – Dishwasher safe; steam clean or wash with hot water. Sterilizing your trays helps prevent cross-contamination and keeps your garden hygienic. INFINITELY REUSABLE – They last forever. Comfortably fits 2" plugs of rock wool or any material. A large drainage hole in the bottom ensures adequate bottom-watering. EASY SOIL RELEASE – Flexible silicone walls are optimal for transplanting seedlings by protecting the integrity of the roots and soil. The bendable material makes releasing soil simple and easy. No crinkling, no cracking, no ripping, no waste. These seed starter trays are built to last a lifetime. Our seedling trays will never melt, become brittle or crack, even under the most extreme conditions. THICK, HEAVY-DUTY MATERIAL - Silicone regulates the temperature of soil much better than plastic and peat. Also, our seedlings trays feel great in your hands and will never decay.   Today's Botanic Spark 1825 Today is the birthday of a student of Nantucket flora, the botanist Maria Louise Owen. Maria was born into a wealthy family in Nantucket. Her maiden name was Talent. When she was a little girl, Maria showed an interest in the plants growing around her home on Nantucket. The women in her family - her mother, her sisters, and her aunt - all shared in the hobby of botany. It wasn't long before Maria showed an aptitude for it. She had a superior intellect, memory, and processing skills. She had a scientific mind. After marrying a Harvard-educated doctor named Varillas Owen, the young couple settled in Springfield, Massachusetts. For more than 50 years, their home became a hub for scientists and academics. Maria loved to entertain, and she drew energy from connecting with the educated people in her area. One peer said that Maria was "easily the most cultivated and best-read woman of her time in Springfield." Maria served as the President of both the Springfield Women's Club and the Springfield Botanical Society for over a decade. A renaissance woman, Maria taught botany, French, astronomy, and geography. Although Maria enjoyed teaching all of these subjects equally, she always said that for her, happiness could be found in the study of botany. In 1882, Maria contributed to a little Nantucket guidebook. Maria's part featured a listing of all the plants on the island of Nantucket. The project was a bit retrospective for Maria since she was writing about the plants of her childhood and featuring specimens she'd collected as a young woman. Even after moving to Springfield, Maria still botanized in the area whenever she came back to Nantucket. Although she spent five decades of her adult life in Springfield, she always regarded Nantucket as her home. In 1888, Maria wrote her masterpiece - a comprehensive Flora of Nantucket, which featured almost 800 species and varieties. After her book, Maria made it a point to connect with new generations of Nantucket botanists. The young botanists were eager to make her acquaintance; Maria was a one-woman repository of all the plants of Nantucket. When the botanist Bicknell published a follow-up catalog about Nantucket in the early 1900s, he continually referred to Maria's work, which explicitly documented when and where plants were introduced. For instance, when she wrote about chicory, she said it was, "a roadside plant along the south end of Orange Street" where it had thrived for "fifty years." At the age of 87, Maria was asked about one of the plants in her flora - Tillaea. The plant was hard to find, and botanists were curious about a location for it. Maria wrote, "My patch of Tillaea... doubtless still exists, and there is a happy day in store for any botanist who sees it at just the right season." Maria died in 1907. She had moved back to Nantucket to live with her daughter. Walter Deane wrote in his Rhodora biography of Maria that she died, "...on a bright morning with the room flooded with sunshine, which she always loved, and filled with iris, columbine, and cornflowers…. She lived true to the [Latin] motto of her mother's family 'Post tenebris, speramus lumen de lumine,' which [Maria] always loved to translate, 'After the darkness, we hope for light from the source of light.'"

On today’s Equipping you in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Harry Lee Poe discuss the influences in C.S. Lewis childhood, his friendship, and reaching young people today with the Word of God, along with his book, Becoming C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (Crossway, 2019). What you’ll hear in this episode Some of the most significant influences on C.S. Lewis in his childhood. Why C.S. Lewis many biographers neglect his early years. The childhood and teenage years of C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis thoughts on religion when he was a teenager. In what way did Lewis’s love of mythology impact his thoughts about God and influence his future writing. When Lewis’s love of reading and literature began. What role friendship played in C.S. Lewis's childhood and teenage years. Why we need more men like C.S. Lewis and what such men would look like in terms of their character and ministries. About the Guest Harry Lee Poe (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as the Charles Colson University Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, where he has taught a course on C. S. Lewis for over fifteen years. He is the author of The Inklings of Oxford and C. S. Lewis Remembered, as well as numerous articles. Poe hosts regular Inklings Weekend retreats and is a speaker on Lewis at major libraries worldwide. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook or via email to share your feedback. Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

On today’s Equipping you in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Harry Lee Poe discuss the influences in C.S. Lewis childhood, his friendship, and reaching young people today with the Word of God, along with his book, Becoming C.S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis (Crossway, 2019). What you’ll hear in this episode Some of the most significant influences on C.S. Lewis in his childhood. Why C.S. Lewis many biographers neglect his early years. The childhood and teenage years of C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis thoughts on religion when he was a teenager. In what way did Lewis’s love of mythology impact his thoughts about God and influence his future writing. When Lewis’s love of reading and literature began. What role friendship played in C.S. Lewis's childhood and teenage years. Why we need more men like C.S. Lewis and what such men would look like in terms of their character and ministries. About the Guest Harry Lee Poe (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as the Charles Colson University Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University, where he has taught a course on C. S. Lewis for over fifteen years. He is the author of The Inklings of Oxford and C. S. Lewis Remembered, as well as numerous articles. Poe hosts regular Inklings Weekend retreats and is a speaker on Lewis at major libraries worldwide. Subscribing, sharing, and your feedback You can subscribe to Equipping You in Grace via iTunes, Google Play, or your favorite podcast catcher. If you like what you’ve heard, please consider leaving a rating and share it with your friends (it takes only takes a second and will go a long way to helping other people find the show). You can also connect with me on Twitter at @davejjenkins, on Facebook or via email to share your feedback. Thanks for listening to this episode of Equipping You in Grace!

Clive Staples Lewis was successful. A British writer and theologian, his work has become very famous. When Lewis wrote his classic Surprised by Joy, he was emphasizing the fact that true joy comes from a place we cannot create, but only claim and receive. His story really brings a point to our weeklong series about asking the Lord for help when we are at the end of our rope. John 16:24 says, “Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.” In Surprised by Joy, Lewis compares joy to a signpost in a deep wood, pointing us to safety. Lewis was an intellectual and well known as an atheist, until he reached a point where life had no real meaning. He realized—not too late—that it isn’t weakness to reach out to God. If you’re in a deep wood and can’t find your way out—if the sun is setting—stop and ask Jesus for the thing you need the most. Think about the implications of the psalm: He is telling you that you will receive what you asked for; it’s already done! Lewis thought of himself as a “complete man” once he found the Lord. The same thing can happen for you. Let’s pray. Lord, life has ups and downs. We need you to be there for us, with us, all the way. Amen. Connect with a community of believers who share your faith in Jesus! Find us at Facebook.com/Kerusso.    

We start with the MotoTT Macau Grand Prix which managed to complete just 1 lap before being called off after two red flag periods.Could Nico Hulkenburg be headed to IndyCar? (Update since we recorded - Nope)Formula 1 has released their sustainability plain…Sebastian Vettel agrees with us - the helmet rules are stupid and need to be changed.The FIA says that maybe the downforce numbers that they announced with the new rules are a bit optimistic.Oh - and they think that teams will report loopholes in the rules to the FIA instead of trying to exploit them.Pirelli’s 2020 tires will get one last chance to impress the teams - if not, the teams could dump them.The FIA wants to know more about the oil each team is using and how much that they’re using - while Ferrari insists that they aren’t doing anything different with their engine.Red Bull says 2020 is going to be their most expensive year ever - because of the cost cap.Red Bull’s lineup today - is their lineup for 2020.When Lewis leaves F1 - maybe he’ll find something else to do with Mercedes?Could Mercedes F1 be for sale? Probably not.The Brazilian Grand Prix was a good one this year….And the Miami Grand Prix hasn’t been killed off yet…

A once-proclaimed “confirmed bachelor,” C.S. Lewis found himself contradicted when he fell in love with Joy Davidman. However, it is up for debate WHEN Lewis discovered this deep love for Joy. Scholar Andrew Lazo discusses how the letters and works of C.S. Lewis showcase his evolving self-awareness as he realized that he had helplessly fallen in love with the imperious Joy Davidman. For more information about the podcast and Becoming Mrs. Lewis, please visit www.becomingmrslewispodcast.com

One of the things I love to do at the end of spending time in my garden is to make some tussie mussies.   Tussie mussies are also called nosegays or posies; they are small flower bouquets typically given as a gift. Mine are pretty small - with cuttings no longer than 6 inches. I like the charm of these little tussie mussies. They are super fun to drop off by someone's mailbox or simply to set down near the register of your favorite barista. They look perfect when placed on top of a book or added to the top of a gift-wrapped package.   Irene Deitsch wrote a book called Tussie Mussies a few years ago and she explained the etymology of the word tussie mussie - which I found quite helpful.   “A ‘tussie’ is a nosegay, which is a Middle English word for a small group of flowers held together in a little bouquet. 'Mussie’ refers to the moss that was moistened and put around the stems of the flowers to keep them from wilting. That’s why they’re called tussie-mussies.”         Brevities #OTD  Today is the anniversary of the death of Jeanne Baret who died on this day in 1807. Baret was the first woman to have circumnavigated the world as part of the expedition which was led by Louis Antoine de Bougainville.   Beret was able to join the expedition after posing as a valet to the expedition's naturalist: Philibert Commerçon.   Before the expedition, Baret had been employed as Commerçon's housekeeper. A few years later his wife died and Baret took over the management of the household in addition to having a personal relationship with Commerçon.   Commerçon had poor health and it was likely that he needed Baret to join him on the expedition because he needed her assistance.   Baret herself was actually a botanist herself and her own right.  When the ship stopped in Rio de Janeiro, an old leg injury prevented Commerçon from collecting specimens. Thus , it was Baret who ventured out into the tropics and returned with the lovely tropical vine that would be named to honor the expedition's commander: Bougainvillea.     #OTD  It’s the birthday of Frederick William Calcut Paxford who was born on this day in 1898.   Paxford was CS Lewis's gardener from 1930 until Lewis' death in 1963.   Paxford was the inspiration for Puddleglum; the marsh Weigle and the silver chair in the chronicles of Narnia where Puddleglum was described  as,   “an inwardly optimistic, outwardly pessimistic, dear, frustrating, shrewd countryman of immense integrity.“   Paxford and Lewis were the same age. However, Paxford had served during World War I, and he had been gassed as a soldier.    Nearly a decade after the war, Lewis bought his property in Oxfordshire called the Kilns. When Paxford was hired, he spent many years preparing the grounds. He leveled the lawn in front of the house. He set out flowers and a Rose arbor. He established both an orchard and a vegetable garden. and he  helped raise rabbits and chickens.   Lewis called Paxford, “our indispensable factotum” (A factotem is an employee who does all kinds of tasks.)   Meanwhile, Paxford always referred to Sinclair Lewis as "Mr. Jack". Here are a few of Paxford's memories about Lewis:   "Mr. Jack loved the trees and would not have a tree cut down or lopped.  When we had to take some [branches] to make a rose trellis, we had to get them when he was away for a few days and cover up the cuts with mud so that they would not be seen."   Paxford lived in a little private Bungalow in the garden and he stayed there for 33 years. When Lewis died, Paxford was only bequeathed 100 pounds. To which he replied, "Well, it won’t take me far, will it?"   #OTD   Today is the anniversary of the death of Candice Wheeler who died on this day in 1923. Candice Wheeler is often called "the mother of interior design". In addition to design, Wheeler loved gardening and she helped create the artist community of Onteora.   Onteora was known for its unique homes and gardens. In its prime, it was a summer colony teaming with artists set in New York’s Catskill Mountains.   Wheeler’s garden was known as Wildmuir. Wildmuir had wonderful lawn, specimen rhododendrons, laurels, and evergreen trees. In the 1920s, Wildmuir was updated by Harold Caparn, who designed the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.   Like Martha Stewart, Candice Wheeler was multitalented. Her publishing credits include a variety of books; from How to Make Rugsto Content in a Garden.   Content in a Gardenis partly an essay and partly a guide as to what can be grown in a small space. Wheeler wrote from her own experiences.  In a 1923 newspaper advertisement for the book, the reviewer wrote that Candice Wheeler and her daughter, Dora Wheeler Keith, "are thoroughly in sympathy with nature, of which the former writes as charmingly as the latter illustrates it."   And it was Candace Wheeler who said,   "One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God."       Unearthed Words Today, we honor the poetry of Wendell Erdman Barry, an American author whose extraordinary nature poetry grew out of his experiences as a farmer.    Barry is responsible for so many wonderful quotes and poems. It was difficult to pick just a few. Here are some of my favorites:   "Eating is an agricultural act." "Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”  “I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”        Today's book recommendation: The Herb Garden Cookbook by Lucinda Hutson Southern Livingsaid this about Lucinda Hutson's book:   "Lucinda Hutson’s garden is something of a legend in Austin. An invitation from Lucinda, an authority on ethnic herbs and an accomplished cook, to sample a new dish or special punch in her flamboyant setting is a guaranteed fiesta. . . . And her gusto for entertaining and cooking is exemplified in her recipes [in] The Herb Garden Cookbook."   If you’ve ever wondered what to do with all the herbs growing in your garden, Hutson‘s book will be an inspiration for you.   This book was published back in 2003, but it is a classic. You can get used copies on Amazon using the link provided in today's show notes for under three dollars.     Today's Garden Chore Now is the time to start pansy seed for fall color to your beds and containers and window boxes.   Pansies can handle cooler temperatures. When your geraniums and begonias and other summer bloomers are starting to get leggy and spent, pansies are nice way to add a dash of color with their adorable little faces.   If you look closely at pansies, you’ll see that their petals are heart-shaped and they overlap. Despite their sweet faces, pansies are tough. They will survive a frost. They can bounce back from single-digit temperatures (which I think is incredible).    And remember, pansies love morning sun the best - they're not thrilled with hot afternoon sun. They're too cool for that.   Just a heads up: Pansy seed can be finicky and slow going, so check out some YouTube videos for germination tips to ensure success.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart   On this day in 1998, The Province out of Vancouver, British Columbia shared an article written by Peter Clough that caught my attention. The title was called Hydrangea Fest Yanked by Rootsand began with the sentence, "It’s a blooming shame."   Here’s what it said:   "Saturday was supposed to be the inaugural SurreyWhite Rock Hydrangea Blossom Festival.   For organizer Elaine Cramer, it was going to be the realization of a dream she's had for 15 years to bring a world-class floral parade to the Lower Mainland. Now it's not going to happen; not this year at least.   After months of planning, the parade has been cancelled. [...]   Elaine is no novice when it comes to hydrangeas. She actually studied them at university. Her garden's home to several varieties.   [Elaine] says Surrey was equally enthusiastic. In fact, she says, it was Mayor Doug McCallum who convinced her that the best route through Surrey was 152nd Street. So she was a little shocked two weeks ago when she sat down before the city's special-events committee to be told by chairwoman Council Judy Higginbotham that her permit had been denied.   She's been working with Surrey officials for more than a year and only now does she learn of the problem.   Elaine and her 30 volunteers plan to give away more than 10,000 hydrangea bushes between now and October with next year's parade in mind. That's if she can get a permit."     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

the Chanel Lewis trial was not only very odd but also tragic, which is why supporters called his sentencing a “modern day lynching” and say they believe that police planted DNA evidence that led to the conviction. "The jury was tainted and the judge is biased. From the beginning, from the onset, Chanel did not get a fair shake," said a Lewis family spokesman. When Lewis was given the chance to speak during the trial, he continued to deny any wrongdoing. “I am innocent and I am sorry for the family's loss but I didn't do this,” he said. Many questions about the behavior of the people involved in the trial were risen; a juror in the case had told the New York Times he was pressured into voting for a conviction. He said he had doubts about Lewis' guilt, but he feared having to stay all night long if a guilty verdict was not reached. we find this case very interesting and want to bring you our opinion, please let us know what you think and whether you think Chanel Lewis got a fair trial or not, please rate us on Itunes and follow us on all major podcast platforms. follow us on Twitter @FollowtheFax if you enjoy please share, thanks in advanced and thank you for listening.

When Lewis and Clark set out on their expedition, they traveled in canoes, looking for a water route for commerce as they explored the newly acquired territory from the Louisiana purchase. Everything about their expedition changed when they reached the Rocky Mountains! In our own day, the Church has been coasting along, doing business as usual, but the culture has changed around us. The new cultural climate is a very different context for our mission, and we may need to change some of our methods, just like Lewis and Clark changed their methods when their canoes were no longer useful. There are some things, however, which will never change. The Gospel and the Word of God remain a firm foundation, and we can trust that God will always be with us as we navigate this new, unfamiliar terrain. For sermon notes and more information about Good Samaritan Anglican Church, please visit our website: http://www.goodsamaritananglican.org/sermons/canoeing-the-mountains/

Hosts Phil Svitek (@PhilSvitek) and Demetri Panos (@DMovies1701) discuss The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) Review! Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his oddball uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. He soon learns that Uncle Jonathan and his feisty neighbor, Mrs. Zimmerman, are powerful practitioners of the magic arts. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade suddenly springs to life -- revealing a secret and dangerous world of witches, warlocks and deadly curses. To download the rundown used during The House with a Clock in its Walls (2018) anatomy, click here: http://audio.afterbuzztv.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MTN/ClockHouse.zip --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

When Lewis and Clark crossed through Montana, they encountered an extraordinary cornucopia of wildlife. Most of that ecosystem and the animals that once thrived there are gone. But a non-profit wants to bring it all back. Pete Geddes, Managing Director of the American Prairie Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about creating the Serengeti of the Americas--a 3.3 million acre prairie that would allow bison, pronghorn antelope, prairie dogs and their friends to inhabit a Wildlife Reserve in Montana, the size of Connecticut. Geddes discusses the goals of the American Prairie Reserve and how they're using a for-profit company, Wild Sky Beef, to gather support and help from local ranchers for the project.