July 24th, 2025

What’s Happening with the Blackhawk Bridge? Is the topic for this week’s episode of Conversations. Kailean Welsh talks with Project Manager Clayton Burke as closure of the old bridge approaches and the community braces for change.

July 24, 2025: Inviting Ease

Explore the possibility of noticing the presence of ease in the body and mind, as an alternative to our usual habits of holding tension/stress.

July 24th, 2025

Prairie restoration, the Grim Reaper, mentors, and a rusty scythe all compound the images in this poem by Tom Boswell MEDITATION WHILE CUTTING BUCKWHEAT from the poetry collection Heart on a String.

Doing the Folk School Thing

Julie chats with Lucy Soderstrom, Executive Director, and Anna Heil, Program Director at Ely Folk School in Ely, Minnesota, as well as Driftless Folk School Fellow Lauren Proffitt. Conversation ranges from the variety of classes offed at regional folk schools, to the...

July 22nd, 2025

Reading about the fascinating vast Pacific Ocean and the albatross who thrive in its thousands of miles of waves and wind,  from Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina; more from this great book today, published in 2002 by Henry Holt and Company LLC.

New Leo Moon

One of the things they don’t often tell us is that Leo is a season where the Sun is waning. We’re heading back to Winter, folks. Leo is often caricatured as dramatic and flamboyant, expressive and radiant. Leo shines on the stage. Leo sings it barbaric yawlp! While...