Episode 95—March 17, 2018

"High Flight" is a sonnet written by 19-year-old John Gillespie Magee Jr. before a mid-air crash took his life during World War II. In this episode host Jennifer Ellsworth uses the lines of this poem to remember her family's 19-year-old World War II pilot, her grandfather, who died last month. He was a POW, an artist, a storyteller, and one of Ellsworth's greatest influences.

"The Surly Bonds of Earth:

Roldan Ellsworth Jose Stumpff de Whitt lived two lives growing up. One in the Pennsylvania Dutch world of his father, and another in his mother's Mexico...."

Moon Astrology: New Egg Moon in Pisces: flying dreams.

Goodnight, Pumpkin; ghosts; and a great man.