For our very last episode of this very unusual year, we welcome you to surrender: to love, plant life, and discipline. Join us as we obsess with dicotyledons, and fight back against procrastination. We also explore multilingual recitations of the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and include a few audio excerpts of his translated works from the Librivox database.

If you're curious about anti-fracking opportunities, plant identification, and functional ecology, stay tuned for all the facts. We reminisce on previous elections, and also mention our adventures collecting mugwort + propagating Willow trees for the Hahamongna Watershed Park. 

The election happened...will the results unite humanity? We want to believe in a system that just hasn’t been built yet. This legacy of despair has reached its breaking point. We are hanging on -this is no time for giving up, so instead we hail to Kamala Harris, and what she has to offer our pathetic kingdom. 

Readings featured for this episode: Australian Totemism in Geza Roheim's The Riddle of the Sphinx, myth #11; South American Cinema by Barnard & Rist; The Art of Seduction by Robert Green.

Each episode concludes with a carefully curated playlist from our archives; where one can explore a collection of rare tracks, from Ethiopian disco to Elizabethan folk.

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