Peanut Butter & the Marriage Supper of the Lamb
I bolted up the stairs, heart racing in response to my husband’s call. He was the calm one, the unflappable med student; that level of...
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- Aug 17, 2021
The Garden at Hutchmoot: Homebound
The arts go far beyond words, melodies, and paintings. For instance, the art of gardening comprises much of what it means to faithfully...
- Aug 13, 2021
5&1, Part 25: Gazing Beyond the Stars
Infinite space offers infinite inspiration. That’s because, in the immortal words of the late, great Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really...
- Aug 10, 2021
Reading with Open Eyes & Hearts: A Review of Steeped in Stories by Mitali Perkins
Mitali Perkins is the author of many wonderful books for children ranging from picture books to young adult novels. But I first heard of...
- Aug 5, 2021
5&1, Part 24: Haunted by the Clarinet
No instrument exactly mimics the human voice, of course, but the clarinet comes close. A remarkably versatile instrument, it’s capable of...
- Jul 30, 2021
5&1, Part 23: The Calls of the Birds
It is only natural that those of an artistic temperament will be drawn to the natural world. Forms of human creativity are almost bound...
- Jul 15, 2021
A Path of Delight: Building the World of The Door on Half-Bald Hill
[Editor’s note: Our theme for today at North Wind Manor’s Opening Week is story, and this evening the Manor will host a Storytellers’...
- Jul 14, 2021
The Hutchmoot Podcast: The Striving Artist with Russ Ramsey
Tonight at the Manor, Russ Ramsey is speaking about the life and work of painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. So, as a companion piece to Kyra’s...
- Jul 13, 2021
The Lost Art of Listening & A Conversation with Sara Groves
Our theme for today at North Wind Manor’s Opening Week is music. This evening, we’ll be celebrating the gift of music with a special...
- Jul 9, 2021
5&1, Part 22: Over Hill, Over Dale (Shakespeare’s Comedies)
So we come to our third foray into the Bard’s musical legacy, taking the categories used in the First Folio of his plays published just a...
- Jul 2, 2021
5&1, Part 21: Latin American Fiesta!
How on earth do you pick six compositions to represent an entire continent? Answer: You don’t. Because you can’t. So perhaps this is the...
- Jun 28, 2021
The Portal of The Resistance
From the beginning, The Resistance has felt like a bit of an oddball in the Rabbit Room Podcast Network. But to be honest, that was...
- Jun 25, 2021
5&1, Part 20: It’s All About That Bass
The great jazz bass player Charlie Haden once said this: The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the...
- Jun 17, 2021
5&1, Part 19: Rosy-Fingered Dawn (Heliophiles of the World Unite!)
For years as an inveterate night-owl, the dawn has been one of those natural phenomena I mostly appreciate in the hypothetical rather...
- Jun 8, 2021
Terraforming with Propaganda
Today, Propaganda has released his debut collection of essays and poetry, Terraform, and we highly recommend it to you. For one thing,...
- Jun 4, 2021
5&1, Part 18: Home Thoughts from Abroad (Composers in Exile)
It feels rather apt to be considering Exiles for this playlist, since I’m actually spending the week at the Rabbit Room mothership, North...
- May 28, 2021
5&1, Part 17: “Who Wears the Hollow Crown?” (Shakespeare’s History Plays)
The Bard was hardly the world’s first literary giant to dramatize or narrate great historical moments; far from it. But no one was more...
- May 21, 2021
5&1, Part 16: Lazy French Summers
I obviously don’t know how it is where you are reading this, but here in southern England, having enjoyed a small run of deliciously warm...
- May 14, 2021
5&1, Part 15: “He Is Not Here” (A Choral Easter Season)
As Andrew reminded us in a piece posted just recently, Easter Sunday is when it’s all just getting started. It’s no accident that the...
- May 13, 2021
A Private Grief in Public and the Universality of Human Experience
Going viral is, I would imagine, a standard goal of most professional photographers. A brief glance at his Twitter feed suggests that...
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