Howell Creek Radio
by Joel Dueck
From an unlicensed transmitter deep within the forests of northern Minnesota, Howell Creek Radio transmits weekly addresses combining weather, personal yarns, shipping reports, poetry and literature. Read transcripts and get more info at howellcreekradio.com. **No Longer Being Updated**
Episodes
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The Grid Life
Download MP3 audio – 7:13, 10.27 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for May 3, 2014, a continuation of the previous episode. There are lots of reasons not to like cookie-cutter suburban developments, but: there may be an upside. Mention is made of A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Egnle and The...
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Neighbors
Download MP3 audio – 5:14, 7.54 MB Radio address for April 19, 2014. The gap between the ideal and the actual social fabric in my suburban neighborhood. As I mention at the end, there’s a Part Two to these thoughts that will be coming in the next address. Mention is made of communal ovens: here’s...
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Wayfinding
Download MP3 audio – 7:54, 11.21 MB Radio address for April 12, 2014. What it means to do low-focus podcasting in a high-focus world, and how to keep it going that way. I mention my recent haphazard writing on mystic experience and religious conversion. The extended quote in the middle is from...
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Tracks
Download MP3 audio – 12:46, 17.88 MB – or Read Transcript Radio broadcast for February 22, 2014. A narrative of the first two legs of the trip I took in response to the signal seen on the Baie Comeau in January: a midnight snowshoe hike in the woods, and boiler-stoking our way over Heston Grade…
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Out of Sequence
Download MP3 audio – 11:23, 13.39 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for January 24, 2014. Mention is made of the book The Discarded Image and (towards the very end) of “Unix philosophy”. Music is by Trentemøller.
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Low Power
Download MP3 audio – 8:55, 10.56 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for January 11, 2013: Weather and shipping news, visitors to Howell Creek from Vancouver, and the blue light gleaming from the icy deck of the Baie Comeau. Mention is made of the recent cold snap in Minnesota, beatific vision,...
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Not a Radio Address
Download MP3 audio – 4:04, 5.01 MB – or Read Transcript There is no radio address this week, or the first weekend in 2014, due to the holidays. In lieu of a creative monologue, I’m here to deliver a short meta-report — something I do not more than once per year — and an announcement, or perhaps a...
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Schrödinger's Cat
Download MP3 audio – 8:00, 9.64 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 21, 2013, about the affinity I feel for a cat at work that is, for the time being, both alive and dead. Very prominent mention is made of “Schrödinger’s Cat” — read all the details on Wikipedia, for starters. It...
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The Second Ring
Download MP3 audio – 11:40, 13.83 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 14, 2013. We tend to place a bit of our power into things: trees, books, jewels, bullets and hats. Lose one of these talismans, and you are put to a world of trouble to get it back again. I never really thought…
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The Infinite Aleph
Download MP3 audio – 13:38, 16.09 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 7, 2013: a glimpse into everything, everywhere, all at once. Mention is made of the living, breathing digital experience The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity created by David Hirmes, and the short story on...
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The Way Back
Download MP3 audio – 14:51, 17.46 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for November 30, 2013, a short trip through music, the kitchen, and the woods.
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Shifting Schools
Download MP3 audio – 6:12, 7.45 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for October 12, 2013, which finds me getting ready for a long drive, thinking about the radio and those static voices in the darkness, and where they might be found once radio is really dead.
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The Field and the Fortress
Download MP3 audio – 8:45, 8.37 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for September 22, 2013. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who, at some point in their adult life, have had their world view and their thinking radically changed, and those who haven’t.
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What Happened
Download MP3 audio – 9:42, 9.24 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for September 14, 2013. This episode draws from and adds a bit of dimension to Habemus Papoose, in which I briefly described our daughter’s birth at 65 MPH.
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Numbers
Download MP3 audio – 11:01, 10.45 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 15, 2013. Numbers and words are my yin and yang, my law and grace. I’m trying to explore the parallel between numbers and incessant rain, and why is it that we even need them?
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Manning the Pumps
Download MP3 audio – 8:59, 8.59 MB Radio address for June 1, 2013. A venture down to the lowest place in the house, floods and sinking houses.
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Recall
Download MP3 audio – 6:41, 6.49 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for May 27, 2013. Getting ink everywhere but on the page, and coming back to life after being submerged in activity.
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Without Words
Download MP3 audio – 13:06, 12.36 MB Radio address for May 4, 2013. What it feels like not to have words for things, or to suddenly acquire them.
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The Working Ghost
Download MP3 audio – 4:22, 4.37 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 13, 2013. A report on the weather: of the neighborhood, of the mind.
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Quarters
Download MP3 audio – 7:19, 7.06 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 6, 2013. We contemplate the value of stolen and saved moments doing what you love in between work and sleep.
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Moving Stations
Download MP3 audio – 9:34, 9.25 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for March 23, 2013. Running to work in the morning with a heavy bag on your shoulder, and stopping by the train station.
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Airbrush
Download MP3 audio – 8:50, 8.59 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, March 16, 2013. We all spread out a little bit more with the passing of time and the coming of extra daylight.
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Fireside Banter
Download MP3 audio – 44:46, 20.99 MB Well, we really coloured outside our usual lines with this one! Trixie and I sat down by the fire to discuss our podcast and the survey results – the only time we’ve done so in five years of podcasting.
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One Mile
Download MP3 audio – 8:53, 8.63 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, Mar 2, 2013. I discuss the possibilities and limitations inherent in becoming, and trying to remain, a landed proprietor. What's it like to suddenly be the grown-up, welcoming guests into your home?
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Small Place
Download MP3 audio – 9:55, 9.58 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Feb 23, 2013. Winter gets repetitive; it is a prison, a cave, a cocoon.
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Scoop and Gallon
Download MP3 audio – 5:22, 5.41 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Jan 5th, 2013. The new year marks the end of Swaledale’s trials, and finds us with more tea than we know what to do with.
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Running Thick
Download MP3 audio – 8:44, 8.55 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, December 15, 2012. There are few things that can persuade us to go for a run in the cold, but they invariably find us out sooner or later.
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Good Fortune
Download MP3 audio – 10:40, 12.13 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 3rd, 2012. I went for a walk in the woods by the cabin on a moonlit night.
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Snap
Download MP3 audio – 9:22, 9.72 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Nov. 24, 2012. Every year at about this time I remember the winters I’m glad I’ve left far behind.
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The College
Download MP3 audio – 7:32, 5.72 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for November 11, 2012. I elaborate upon my ideal of a college and the search for a lifestyle of literacy.
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Roundy Wells
Download MP3 audio – 4:18, 3.40 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Nov. 3, 2012. I contemplate going to college late in life.
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Maple Talk
Download MP3 audio – 7:17, 10.37 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for October 27, 2012: the weather gets colder, and we celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.
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Rustling Squirrels
Download MP3 audio – 9:46, 13.78 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for October 20, 2012, in which I try to describe what inspiration sounds like.
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The Giant Farm
Download MP3 audio – 12:16, 17.25 MB – or Read Transcript
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Perch
Download MP3 audio – 5:56, 8.63 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for August 19, 2012: a short memory of a long discussion last May, and my search for a new secret bunker.
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The Sound of Music
Download MP3 audio – 7:44, 11.09 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for August 4, 2012, about an outdoor concert at the Lake Harriet bandshell, and the planes flying overhead.
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Cave Swept Clean
Download MP3 audio – 8:46, 12.52 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for July 22, 2012. The garage having remained a dusty shrine to the long construction project, we conceived of the idea of hosting a garage sale in the hottest weather of the year as a way of cleaning it out.
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Once Around the Lake
Download MP3 audio – 10:36, 15.03 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for July 7, 2012, about a reunion in the Northwoods with some men I haven’t seen in a long time.
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Red Jacket, Silver Curtain
Download MP3 audio – 10:15, 14.16 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 23rd, 2012, inspired by our recent visit to family in Niagara Falls.
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Deities in Exile
Download MP3 audio – 6:59, 10.06 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 6, 2012, where Trixie and I long to go on pilgrimages, and in fact do so.
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Roots and Genesis
Download MP3 audio – 7:37, 10.93 MB – or Read Transcript 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.
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You Do Not Know What a Bird Is
Download MP3 audio – 5:46, 8.39 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for April 28, 2012, dictated verbatim from the spring wind and rain on the North Shore.
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The Good Wrong
Download MP3 audio – 13:41, 19.26 MB – or Read Transcript 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.
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The Room You Are In Now
Download MP3 audio – 6:28, 9.36 MB – or Read Transcript 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.
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Bees in the Air
Download MP3 audio – 8:33, 12.22 MB – or Read Transcript Trixie and I make plans to fly or drive all over the continent in every direction, and groundwork for the suburban apiary is contemplated.
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The Smell of the Tea in the Rain
Download MP3 audio – 11:10, 15.50 MB – or Read Transcript City hall springs to life in a flurry of self-cancelling paperwork, and we listen to the north shore of Lake Superior call us while we brew tea on the porch.
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Dirt and Leaf
Download MP3 audio – 6:50, 9.54 MB – or Read Transcript After the sudden and early thaw, thoughts turn to yard maintenance which does not necessarily include scouring away every trace of unnatural untidiness.
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A Wolf and a Wish
Download MP3 audio – 10:02, 13.95 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Feb 21, 2012, which you will have to listen to for yourself.
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Veins of Grey and Gold
Download MP3 audio – 8:41, 12.10 MB – or Read Transcript An afternoon spent in the basement, a morning spent in the Basilica.
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Sun Will Set Again
Download MP3 audio – 15:01, 20.77 MB – or Read Transcript Why were the Dark Ages called the Dark Ages? It probably wasn’t because of ignorance, for ignorance persists; much more likely, they were dark because of Sudden Isolation.
About this show
From an unlicensed transmitter deep within the forests of northern Minnesota, Howell Creek Radio transmits weekly addresses combining weather, personal yarns, shipping reports, poetry and literature. Read transcripts and get more info at howellcreekradio.com. **No Longer Being Updated**
Hosted by
Joel Dueck