Two famous people born on this day.  I know one of them very well.  Brene’ Brown’s documentary “The Call To Courage.”

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The latest in electric-powered vehicles is a tug boat!

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Get your culture on! Listen to our lightning-quick review of 14 classic poems.

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Zebra mussels threaten Lake Sidney Lanier!! And a haiku about lakes (I think).

Haiku credit: https://medium.com/house-of-haiku/quiet-moments-in-a-lake-ba2719d89fcc

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Jason McBride on Medium.com https://jasoncmcbride.medium.com/

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Wikipedia has lots of smart people contributing to its vast body of knowledge. I don’t qualify. Not even a little bit.

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For today's show, I tried something new.  I won't do it again.  I recorded outside using the microphone on my macbook pro.  It's broderline unbearable, but since I'm too lazy to re-record, I'm going with it. If the weather is nearly as nice tomorrow as it was today, I'll try recording outside again, but with a dynamic mic like the ATR 2100 or similar.  This is a creative project, and I know that many of my creative efforts are going to be, well, somewhere between bad and super bad.  This is one of those.

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I learned a few things about Haiku, and I’m passing them on to you.

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It’s International Haiku Poetry Day, so we look at a few definitions of english-language Haiku poetry and wander around the website of The Haiku Foundation at  https://thehaikufoundation.org

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