Saturday Morning Words + Coffee

Jan 20 2024 36 ep. 8 mins 1
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Talking about literature, art, wine, and beautiful distractions. Hosted by Sean K Berry.

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Letter from Admiral Morrison about His Son Jim Morrison

Jan 20 2024 9 mins  
In March 1969, Doors singer Jim Morrison was charged with obscenity and indecent exposure stemming from an incident at a concert in Miami, FL. Prior to sentencing, the court asked his father for a letter describing Jim's character and situation. This was his response. Photo: Jim Morrison and his father aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard prior to Jim's fame.

Clare Harner - Immortality

Jan 06 2024 5 mins  
Reading Clare Harner's Immortality, a beautiful poem for a eulogy. Other authors have tried to pass it off as their own, so I talk about that, too.Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep—I am the thousand winds that blowI am the diamond glints in snowI am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle, autumn rain.As you awake with morning’s hush,I am

The Master Speed - Robert Frost

May 06 2023 6 mins  
Saturday Morning Words and Coffee. Taking a look at Robert Frost's The Master Speed.No speed of wind or water rushing byBut you have speed far greater. You can climbBack up a stream of radiance to the sky,And back through history up the stream of time.And you were given this swiftness, not for hasteNor chiefly that you may go where you will,But in the rush of everything to waste,Th

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mar 19 2022 5 mins  
Reading Ozymandias. What does it teach us about Kings of Kings and hubris? That the sand reclaims everything eventually.I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those

Huckleberry Finn - Chapter 22 - Mark Twain

Jan 29 2022 10 mins  
Reading chapter 22 from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and talking about the dangers of the mob mentality.

William Butler Yeats - A Coat

Jan 22 2022 3 mins  
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Yeats' "A Coat" and talking abut reappraising our own work as we go through life. Is it time to "strip down" and simplify? Yeats might tell you, "Yes."

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Jan 15 2022 8 mins  
Robert Frost is a great poet and, in a roundabout way, helped me to take a better road by dropping English lit. Have a decision to make on which path to take? I talk about that here.

The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy

Jan 01 2022 7 mins  
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Thomas Hardy's poem from a New Year's Day many years ago.I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.The land's sharp features seemed to

Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll

Nov 28 2021 5 mins  
Jabberwocky is a poem from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. It's called a "nonsense poem" because it uses made up words that you can't find in the dictionary. In this podcast episode, I read the poem and talk about what it might mean.'Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe."Beware the Jabb

Moby Dick - Excerpt - The Funeral

Sep 11 2021 9 mins  
Reading Chapter 69 - The Funeral from Moby Dick. Do you believe in ghosts, my friend?