Radio address for May 12, 2012, about our Original Garden, which doesn’t look like very much compared to the way we imagined it. Tie-ins to Mother’s Day are subtle, if even at all extant.

Music cues are Over the Hills and Far Away from the English Baroque album Chirping of the Nightingale, and Upward Over the Mountain by Iron and Wine.

Radio address for April 28, 2012, dictated verbatim from the spring wind and rain on the North Shore.

The first bit of poetry is mine, an unfinished piece from last year. Sources for the rest of the poetry are in the transcript.

Music cues are The Griffin’s Grotto by Richard Hartley, and Please Don’t Die & The Gravel Road by James Newton Howard.

Radio address for April 21, 2012, in which our quiet, straightforward life keeps me humble by being too much to keep up with, and I hope it will always be that way.

Music cues are Wading Deep Water by Crooked Still; Romance: I Know a Little Forest by Jake Schepps; The Daily Grind by Anne Dudley; and History Book by Dry the River.

Radio address for April 14, 2012: A reading from the first two headings of my Red Book, about Existence and Inexistence, the first two stops on a journey of exactly one thousand steps.

The music is the cue Eat Meat and the Kill (The Blue Danube by Strauss) from the original soundtrack recording of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Radio address for April 7, 2012, in which Trixie and I make plans to fly or drive all over the continent in every direction, and groundwork for the suburban apiary is contemplated.

The poem is The Tuft of Flowers by Robert Frost — read from p. 5 of The Road Not Taken, published by Henry Holt and Company.

Music cues are The Brain of the Purple Mountain by Leo Kottke, Flight of the Bumblebee by Bobby McFerrin & Yo-Yo Ma, and Time to Ring Some Changes by Jim Henry & Brooks Williams.