It's the 2026 Heron kick-off episode of Desolation Angel Radio. This ep of the podcast has a conversation with Julie about this year's Great Blue Heron Music Festival and Blind Faith ticket sales. Conversations with Payge and Jen about volunteering straight from the volunteer coordinators. Even if you've volunteered before, listen closely to it. They lay out the crews, process, exactly how everything works. They're the source. A conversation with Isa about Nature & Wellness weekends, and a shout out from the group. An hour of your time well worth investing in

This episode, published the week I observe and mark 45 years sober, serves as a marker. The episodes in October, November, early December all were leading up to this one. It's free, just click the link. This episode, I'm going to ask you to listen, and to share, there's lots of ways to do that, and share buttons, with others. If someone you know, or even someone you don't know, is struggling, is questioning, about their own or someone else's addictions, about recovery and about being sober and clean, this is the episode to listen to, and if it guides even one person to recovery, if it helps only one person, it's worth it

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Sticking with a theme, this episode/chapter of the podcast looks back, briefly, momentarily, at the year, looks ahead to next year and picks back up on October and November's theme of taking a personal look back at the people, events and things that shaped me, and laid the foundation for the life stretching ahead of me then, that I've lived now. Enjoy

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Just me on Christmas Eve 2025 tuning in for a quick 15 minutes or so, saying Hi, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and reading Clement Clark Moore's The Night Before Christmas.

Merry Christmas Everyone

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The annual Christmas show! Really cool Christmas music, and talking about what Christmas means to me, and how some of you have saved it over the years for me. Where the Nomad Project came from (it started out as a Christmas thing), some really big personal news from me concerning the immediate future, some thanks to all of you, and if you're a friend of mine, you're probably name checked on a national podcast with some Christmas wishes, some gratitude for friendship and being on the planet and some thanks.

Enjoy

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This episode continues the journey that we started. This part of it talking about where I was born, grew up, the family I grew up in, and some of the things that make me "me" today, and some tasty cuts of music. The journey continues, and thanks for being along on it with me, and I think you'll find that my journey isn't unique, that it's part of your journey too.

Enjoy

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Every year, come Winter, right around my birthday and the holidays, I take a journey, because now is the time to turn inward and reflect. Yes, there will be Heron episodes come later Winter, after the first of the year. Yes, the Comstock gang will get back together and check in with one another and we'll talk and make y'all part of that. But now? Now is the time for looking at my journey, which, though it's mine and individual, and truth be told, pretty unique, when looked at in total, but I also think it's a universal journey, one we all take. Join in to this opening episode of it, and take a listen. I think you'll find it's your journey too. 

Whew, it's been a long year. Between the Comstock Breakfast Club 75 Reunion planning and those meetings, and the Heron, and the various events there. . it's been literally all year since I could do an episode like this, a personal one. And it's personal, the music, what I have to say, and this last year had an effect. The music? It's a complete mix. I've always loved music and it shows, half the tunes are from the 70's, cuts I loved  then and still love now, and half are from today, music I absolutely love today and they're paired up so hopefully, you'll hear those connections and that lineage too. What I have to say? It's personal, and raw, and real, and some thanks are given that are needed.

Enjoy

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This episode is the last one before 1975 50th Class Reunion. There's details in here that you'll want to know if you're coming, and even if you're not coming, there's things in here for you too. We talk about things like tickets and sponsorship (Sponsorship is an umbrella term we use to talk about money for the scholarship to a 2025 Comstock grad, and covering the dinner for former teachers and admins that are coming). There's details on the menu, how the evening will go, parking, hotels downtown to stay if you want to stay downtown that night, and details on me needing pictures, and how you can participate, even if you're not coming with a short video interview I'll play that night. Karen, John, Diana, Mary, Jan, Pat, Steve, Gina are all in here in a group conversation. Plus music from back in the day, and a second half of the show you won't want to miss from a personal (mine) standpoint. Enjoy!

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One of my favorite episodes of the year - the week before Memorial Day Weekend. This episode features a really good conversation with Julie Rockcastle, Jen Raines, Payge Olson, Isa Cardenas and Steve Rockcastle about the upcoming Great Blue Heron Music Festival on July 4th, 5th and 6th at the Heron and all the different activities, features and music that will be there that weekend; volunteering opportunities so you can be part of the inner workings of the festival and get a free festival pass; this upcoming Nature and Wellness weekend at the Heron and all the free (yes, free!) activities and workshops this weekend, and the Heron's annual May Day celebration on Sunday that really kicks the summer off! Plus music and cuts from Jim Donovan & The Sun King Warriors, Driftwood, Cool Cool Cool, Jimkata, Ryan Montbleau, The Rumble feat. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr., Sneezy, Max Childs, New Planets, Julia., Florencia & The Feeling, Beats Antique, Andy Frasco & The UN, Shadowgrass and The Gunpoets. An hour and a half well worth listening to. Enjoy!

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