Pondering respect and mutual submission, and basking in the several movements of the constant music of nature.

Papa Rod ponders how songs can understand us, and help us understand one another.  He also ponders the healthy, healing realization that he is unimportant.  

Triggered by the call of the midnight train, Papa Rod ponders the depth of loneliness felt and expressed by Whippoorwills, falling stars, train whistles, Autumn Robins, the moon, and Hank Williams.  We do well to learn to feel what others around us are feeling.  

Papa Rod ponders a night of dreaming, a day of exploring, and the evidence of things unseen.

pondering peace without clarity while riding in the chilly dark, bent on making it home.

The blessings of a campfire.

Around the top of the lake.  Papa Rod ponders that the quiet to which we escape the din is actually the urban din for all the creatures who live there.

Papa Rod, standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, realizes that he is two old in the process of becoming who he is.  

Season 5, Episode 4, in which Papa Rod converses at length with folks along the route.

Papa Rod listens to the sounds of the evening until the song ends.