Happy New Year to all! Let’s hope we get lucky and 2009 is the best year ever.
Have you eaten your black-eyed peas today? If not you’d better get started! My Papaw, who called them “cow peas,” always said you had to eat one pea for every day of the year that you wanted to be lucky. I don’t know about you, but for me that means 365 peas!
I’m not sure when or why people decided that eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day creates “luck” for the rest of the year. I don’t believe it, because I think we make our own luck. We do that by paying attention!
Thinking along those lines, I decided to bring out an old post of mine and record it as a podcast for New Year’s Day. It’s called The Worm Whisperer. You can open it in another tab and read along (especially if you can’t translate my Texas twang), but when I spoke it into the microphone, I pretended you were sitting here with me and “told” it to you. The words are probably a little different.
Now, don’t y’all go expecting professional quality on this podcast. I couldn’t put music behind it, and I don’t have a good microphone. But, I’m trying to learn something new … and I wanted to share it with you. You will tell me if it doesn’t work, won’t you? If I can make it work, perhaps I can get an opportunity to visit with an “Apple genius” in the coming months and learn more about podcasting.
If you want to hear it, just click on that button below (there had better be a button!). One of those “audio players” should appear. If you are reading this in feed, I think you have to come to the post to hear it.
Now y’all excuse me. I’ve got to choke down some more black-eyed peas….just in case.
http://thiseclecticlife.com/audio/public_html/Worm_Whisperer.mp3/
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My god Shelly that was beautiful and thought provoking. I just recently starting listening to books online and I must say you definitely have the talent to record books or stories.
I hope you turn around and don’t get baked by the hot sun, you have a wonderful talent!
Now for me, things are looking up and I’m sure going to take your little bit of philosophy in 2009, in fact I may just have to listen to this daily to keep me motivated to keep on truckin in the direction I need to go.
Peace and love to you in the new year! Keep these podcasts rolling!
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Thank you, darlin’. Actually, since storytelling is what I do for a living, the recording part is easy. Wish I had a good knowledge of the actual recording process. I’m accustomed to recording in a studio and having a technician do all the hard work
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This post is one that surprised me…and as I re-read it, I actually like it. I’m going to listen to it regularly, too. I need reminding of what I already know!
Hope your New Year is delightful…and that you make yourself a lot of luck!
First of all… what a delight to HEAR you!!
Second… what a delight to hear your story. Thought provoking, with so much insight. Did you see my blinders? I started trying to make a small contribution with your medicine bag project. I have a box read to go in the mail tomorrow, but I will make more. I am also making squares for the Handmade Afghans Project (for our wounded servicemen). Contact and my participation to both of these projects is due to YOU! Thank you Madam Worm Whisperer.
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Thank you for the kind words, Carol. I’m so glad you got involved with HAP. It’s a good project. And, I appreciate your participation in the Good Medicine Project
. I don’t know what I’d do without you. But, don’t do everything I say! I’ll have you eating bacon, if you don’t watch out.
How utterly delightful to hear you Shelly – you sound so Texas! I was cackling picturing you out there getting caught talking to a worm by an old man in his underwear (I know something about how that feels – remember my photo of Mordechai?), but it was the ending that brought tears to my eyes, apt as it is for these very difficult days here in Israel.
If only the world didn’t have so very many earthworms. Funny that it is so apt, since we don’t even have the animal kind of earthworm here, but this region certainly has more than its fair share of the human ones.
Here’s to a better 2009. Somehow.
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I wish there weren’t so many “earthworms” crawling around, too
. 2009 WILL be better. It must.
And, of course I sound so “Texas,” but if you are here with me, I’ll start talking like you.
Shelly,
Just sitting here knitting up a second bag for the project and enjoying the story. Just wondering, what do you do if the earthworm is your son who won’t listen to his mother?
Do you know that we can talk to each other on apple chat? No phone call needed. The sound on this recording is great and I enjoyed listening.
I found another group to make squares for, The Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota. There is a woman on Ravelry and yahoo groups who collects squares. Thank you for opening my eyes to what I can do at home to help others. Happy New Year.
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Earthworms can only help themselves, JennyMcB. Yes, we theoretically could talk in apple chat, but it’s another thing I don’t know how to do. I like the new charity you have found! Thanks for telling me about it. Wish I was on ravelry!
Shelly – I just had to back up to this post & tell you how much I enjoyed your podcast. For one thing it was so good to put your voice to your face! Now, “sometime” we just need to have coffee – my house OR yours to put the 2 in real time! The story was lovely. I can just see you doing that. I, too, am a big animal softy. I have to leave the room if anything bad is being broadcast. And if my friends start talking about something bad that happened to an animal, I cover my ears & start singing LOUDLY!
I know how you feel about having to leave the room! I appreciate your kind words. And, YES we can have coffee. I’ll save my pennies to buy gasoline and meet you half-way!
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