Episode 9 – Bird insurrection
Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the second time.
Birds provide joy, humor, and solace in rough times, and it seems that they share the capacity for feelings with the human species. And boy, are there a lot of feelings swooping and fluttering around right now!
Margaret is struggling with a loss of faith in her fellow humans. She pulls an old recording from 2012 in which Richard describes his encounter with the American eagle, and Eunice, Margaret’s mother and Richard’s wife, joins him in singing his favorite hymn, “The Lone Wild Bird.”
In loving memory of Eunice Blanchard Poethig, 1930-2018.
Links:
- What It’s Like to Be a Bird, by David Allen Sibley: https://www.sibleyguides.com/product/what-its-like-to-be-a-bird/
- Loren Eiseley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley
Music Credits:
- An Unknown Visitor by Blue Dot Sessions
- “The Lone Wild Bird,” by Henry Richard McFadyen: https://hymnary.org/text/the_lone_wild_fowl_in_lofty_flight
Photo Credit:
- Cardinal in Margaret’s birdbath by Richard Creps
Conversations between a dad and his children capture the sheer joy of talking, singing, and laughing with Richard, a man of simple pleasures, expansive intelligence, historical perspective, and progressive politics. In Season 1, Richard is living under lockdown in his senior living residence during the coronavirus pandemic. It tells the story of Richard’s resilience and of the family’s efforts to ease the psychic impact of his isolation. In Season 2, Margaret asks Richard why he talked so much about vocation when she was growing up. Richard offers the wide arc of his theological understanding—from the need to care for working people to the cosmic Spirit that holds the universe together. They decided to devote an entire podcast season to vocation.
Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the second time.
Birds provide joy, humor, and solace in rough times, and it seems that they share the capacity for feelings with the human species. And boy, are there a lot of feelings swooping and fluttering around right now!
Margaret is struggling with a loss of faith in her fellow humans. She pulls an old recording from 2012 in which Richard describes his encounter with the American eagle, and Eunice, Margaret’s mother and Richard’s wife, joins him in singing his favorite hymn, “The Lone Wild Bird.”
In loving memory of Eunice Blanchard Poethig, 1930-2018
Links:
What It’s Like to Be a Bird, by David Allen Sibley: https://www.sibleyguides.com/product/what-its-like-to-be-a-bird/
Loren Eiseley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Eiseley
Music Credits:
An Unknown Visitor by Blue Dot Sessions: https://www.sessions.blue/
“The Lone Wild Bird,” by Henry Richard McFadyen: https://hymnary.org/text/the_lone_wild_fowl_in_lofty_flight
Photo Credit:
Cardinal in Margaret’s birdbath by Richard Creps
