Yondercast 009 - Onward and Upward!
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"It's just a stage I'm going through,"
shouts the rock star as the stage splin
ters beneath his feet.
That's a joke I tell silent audiences,
stern people waiting for the fun to begin.
I tell it to remind myself that I'm
setting myself up for a fall, and
almost certainly,
a long, cold winter.
"The way you play, you should be on the stage,"
my guitar hero tells me.
"There's one leaving town in an hour."
Shivering on the platform,
I wait for the stage to arrive.
I've been through so many of these towns that
I already know every stranger I will ever meet.
(Traveller, this is Yondercast Episode 009 - Onward and Upward!)
Motherless Child - Long Way From Home
by
Lovespirals, found on the
Podsafe Music Network.
The Founding of the City of Many Islands
During the reign of of Archibald, King of Arcanon, there lived a renowned wanderer named Talak. Are not the wanderings of Talak written in The Book of the Wanderings of Talak? This is the account of how Talak ceased his wanderings and founded the City of Many Islands:
Talak wandered the world until he came to a wide plain crisscrossed by numerous rivers. His heart rejoiced within him because he understood that this was the place he had been looking for. Therefore, Talak wrote a letter to five people he had met during his wanderings.
"Hark," the letters proclaimed, "let it be known that I have found the place I have been looking for. It is a wide plain crisscrossed by numerous rivers, so that it looks like a land of many islands. Let us create a city here. Join me here, Rolstan, builder of towers and bridges, to entower and embridge these almost-islands. Join me here, Gron, grower of gardens, to plant trees and bury seeds in this fertile place. Join me here, Iklan, inventor of machines, to invent the machines for this new city. Join me here, Plocard, poet of dreams, to dream the prayers and songs of a new people inhabiting a new place. And join me here, Mara, welcomer of wanderers and healer of wounds, to marry me and imagine this new city with me."
Thus the Five arrived. Rolstan bridged six islands in the midst of the island-strewn plain. Upon these six islands he built diverse towers, such as had never yet been seen by such as seek towers to gaze upon. Gron (green were his thumbs) grew gardens such as had never yet been seen by those who wander the earth longing to see green and taste fruit. Are these gardens not pictured in The Scrolls of the Gardens of Gron? Iklah invented machines such as had never yet been seen by those who seek machines to gaze upon. His machines followed the fish in the rivers, to discover their knowledge of the water. His machines flew with the eagles, to discover their knowledge of the air. His machines dug with the worms, to discover their knowledge of the ground. And Plocard wrote of his dreams of the city. Are they not written in the Books of the Poems of the Six Islands and are they not recited wherever readers and listeners gather?
Mara made ready to welcome wanderers to the new City of Many Islands. Mara also made ready to heal wounds. Written in The Healing Scrolls of Mara are the remedies and herbs prepared by Mara. Are not those remedies and herbs used to this day?
A busy and productive year passed between the arrival of the Five and the Marriage of Talak and Mara. This is how the marriage of Talak and Mara took place. Talak and Mara stood in the middle of the bridge between their two islands and swore the vows of marriage written by Plocard. These are called The Joyous Marriage Vows of Talak and Mara in the New City of Many Islands. The machines of Iklah surfaced from the rivers and flew down from the heights and dug themselves out of the ground, humming with such hummings, that each heart of each person was made joyous. The wedding meal was the fruit and vegetables from the trees and gardens of Gron (green were his thumbs).
And then the Days of the Arriving Wanderers were upon the city. And everyone who wandered the wide world, men and women of worn shoes and weather-ravaged cloaks, arrived from all directions and encamped each upon their own island.
Thus Talak ceased his wanderings and founded the City of Many Islands.
The Miracle Field
by
The Reverse Eingineers, found on the
Podsafe Music Network.
Outro
- I read an encouraging email from a friend and listener, Peter!
- I mention the new segment, Wandercast, that has already appeared on the feed once. Wandercast is a series of interviews and soundseeing tours, just because I have a shiny, new portable voice recorder!
Shownotes are at
www.yonderman.com.
Contact me at
shane@yonderman.com.
My co-host finally has a an email address! You can contact Si Fi the Betta fish at
sifi@yonderman.com. Si Fi reminds you: it's 4:33 in the afternoon. Do you know where your fish is?
The theme music of Yondercast is
Lost Mind by
ParaVerse.
The outro music is
Light of the Heart by
Suzanne Teng, provided by
Magnatune.
The background music for the reading of
Stages was
The never ending amen by
...living in a loop?, found on the
Podsafe Music Network.
The background music for the reading of
The Founding of the City of Many Islands was
Dark Moon by
Suzanne Teng, provided by
Magnatune.
