The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland!

Please enjoy Hank reading "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson. 

We're so proud of Hank for making this for the podcast, and we're loving listening to this recording on its own. If you enjoy the poem, then we encourage you to find out more about Emily Dickinson. If you’re working with or are a kid, then we highly recommend this great entry from Britannica Kids. 

Discerning ears may also recognize the return of a bit of music from Edvard Grieg called "Morning Mood" performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra as the Musopen Symphony Orchestra. Thank you to Wikipedia and Museopen for globally sharing open-source music so that we could include lovely music in our podcast, family playlists, and classrooms too! 

We made the video using Canva, so fun!  

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.  It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support!  https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures 

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Thank you for tuning in to our spooktacular Howloween special! 

It’s a fun, exciting, and magical tale of tails- about a pair of young raccoon-type twin dogs living on Dogland. Although the story has some mild suspense and Halloween-adjacent fun, it is mostly fun and silly and meant to delight young listeners (age 4+) and old. It will lift your spirits and give 'em pumpkin to talk about!

We wrote the song that plays at the end of our episodes along with Hank’s Granny,  aka Jean Murphy! The song is called “Howl-o-ween!” We took story inspiration from A Tale for Halloween by Loretta Ellen Brady from the collection, The Green Forest Fairy Book (1920.)

Special thanks to our creative partner Jason Roark who records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard. This episode featured a bit of Jason's Howl-o-ween version of a family favorite song, In the Hall of Mountain King by Grieg, who hated the song and wrote it to be a parody of the music of the time that he disliked. We love all of Peer Gynt and encourage you to check it out!

This episode's cover art is made by Hank using Canva!

If you catch a moment, and can follow, rate, and/or review the show, we would be so grateful! It really helps get the word out for our small, indie, mom & pop & pup, family operation.

You can find out more and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

We are proud members of Kids Listen, an organization dedicated to high-quality audio content for kids and families.

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We re-dedicate this episode to one of the greatest storytellers our family and community knew and worked with, the late, great David Kennedy. We are supporting The American Indian College Fund in his honor, and we hope you can join us!

Join Power Dog and President Bernie Sandals as they travel through the stars, and find out who they’ll run into!

We celebrate a favorite poem of ours by Emily Dickinson called "Hope is the Thing With Feathers" with a reading by our kid creator Hank. If you enjoy the poem, then we encourage you to find out more about her. If you’re working with or are a kid, then we highly recommend this great entry from Britannica Kids: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Emily-Dickinson/399427

Discerning ears may also recognize the return of a bit of music from Edvard Grieg called "Morning Mood" performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra as the Musopen Symphony Orchestra. Thank you to Wikipedia and Museopen for globally sharing open-source music so that we could include lovely music in our podcast, family playlists, and classrooms too!

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! 

https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We are so pleased to share this next leg of Power Dog’s adventure- a crossover tale with Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Radio Theater. You’ll love this bouncy, fun, and musically delightful episode, which is the first in our series to feature a different voice for one of the characters. Brsicoe the Space Horse is voiced by Jim Cheff, creator of Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Radio Theater. You can read more about the show, a fellow Kids Listen member, here: Get to Know a Show: Mary Farfisa’s Outer Space Radio Theater.

Other voices from Mary Farfisa's Outer Space Radio Theater you will hear in this episode are Cara Alboucq as Mary Farfisa and Leslie Baker as WhichWay. The 'Listener's Library Song' was written by Jim Cheff and  Cara Alboucq, and performed by Cara. Jim also illustrated our special cover art, and you can see more of his work at http://96thofoctober.com/creators/jim-cheff/

We end this episode with a special message from Mme. Kate the Aware Wolf of Time Yin, with immense gratitude to the wisdom, inspiration, and lessons from Viktor Frankl, Krista Tippet, Pema Chödrön, and Tara Brach.

From Viktor Frankl: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! 

https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

“What problems, what forces

Against us shall bide

While the stars in their courses

Do fight on our side?”

You may have noticed that we are really grooving on the concept of the universe wanting all of us to succeed, to thrive, and to love ourselves as well as each other. During a recent visit with our own Granny Dog (AKA Jeanie Murphy,) we were honored to receive and record a banjo-backed song version of our epic poem from Season 2, Episode 15 called The Dogstrologer’s Song.

We illustrated this cover art using Canva.

We edit our episodes using Descript, and it is amazing! (This link helps to support our show, too!)

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! 

https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Banjo! Astrology! Affirmations! Love! Go!

Finally! We have found President Bernie Sandals! And, he has got to be the YANGist thing to ever happen to TIME YIN. Where has Bernie been? Who is behind the mysterious voice of Time Yin? And where will these dogs go next? Will there be pizza? Many season-long mysteries are at least partially solved in this illuminating episode. Listen closely, and you may hear what Bernie’s middle name is, and it’s a doozy!

We also meet a new, special character based on one of Hank’s teachers. If you’ve been with us from the beginning, then you know we’ve based a couple of characters on our wonderful teachers, and there will be more to come! Thank you to all of the educators who teach and care for our kids. Y’all really do make our world go ‘round.

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! 

https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Power Dog proposes a truce with the most difficult individual he has ever met in his life. They need to solve a puzzle and investigate a strange voice in a strange place. Will the resources he’s gathered in his journey so far help?

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

Join Power Dog as he bids adieu (for now?) to the characters and place from Stories For Wonderful Children, and continues along his fantastical journey. Will he finally get to the dragon world of Draconus?

We discuss the concepts of emotional flooding, feeling overwhelmed, and attempting to shut down in this episode. We also begin a mini storyline about the moments when someone else is challenging us.

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We are so pleased to share part two of this next leg of Power Dog’s adventure- a crossover tale of tails in which we visit the characters and place from Stories For Wonderful Children! Hosted by Dan Wendelin, this podcast is a fellow member show in the wonderful organization we belong to dedicated to high-quality audio for families called Kids Listen. You can also read more about Dan and his show on the Kids Listen Medium channel here: https://medium.com/kidslisten/get-to-know-a-show-stories-for-wonderful-children-d383379ecea9

Hank would like to especially recommend that you listen to all of Dan's stories, and especially the short series featuring the Cats of the Elysium. From Dan, "Deep in Antarctica lies the mystical Cat Elysium, a magical paradise for Flibbertygibit's feline subjects. Flip-Flop, the prankster of the royal cat family passes idyllic days there as caretaker. But when trouble comes to the Elysium, will Flip-Flop's joking ways be able to rise to the challenge?" The best place to start is with Stories For Wonderful Children Episode 37: Where's Flibbertygibit.

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!”

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick.

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://linktr.ee/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.

We are so pleased to share this next leg of Power Dog’s adventure- a crossover tale of tails in which we visit the characters and place from Stories For Wonderful Children! Hosted by Dan Wendelin, this podcast is a fellow member show in the wonderful organization we belong to dedicated to high-quality audio for families called Kids Listen. You can also read more about Dan and his show on the Kids Listen Medium channel here: https://medium.com/kidslisten/get-to-know-a-show-stories-for-wonderful-children-d383379ecea9

Hank would like to especially recommend that you listen to all of Dan's stories, and especially the short series featuring the Cats of the Elysium. From Dan, "Deep in Antarctica lies the mystical Cat Elysium, a magical paradise for Flibbertygibit's feline subjects. Flip-Flop, the prankster of the royal cat family passes idyllic days there as caretaker. But when trouble comes to the Elysium, will Flip-Flop's joking ways be able to rise to the challenge?"

The best place to start is with Stories For Wonderful Children Episode 37: Where's Flibbertygibit.

Special thanks to Jason Roark, our creative partner and ultimate Renaissance Bunny Supreme! He records, edits, and designs this show. He also provides original music including our opening theme song, which is sung & performed by him and the wonderful, talented Jen Bernard.

Our song that plays at the end of this episode is a song we wrote along with Hank’s Granny & Gramps, aka Murphy & Marckx. It's called “Power Dog, He Won’t Give Up!” It started as poetry.

Colin Laurel illustrated our cover art, which was directed by Jen Wick. Creating it was visualizing poetry.

You can find out more and send us jokes at www.powerdogadventures.com

This podcast was made possible, in part, by a grant from The Regional Arts & Culture Council in Portland, OR.

It was made more possible by listeners like you! Thank you for your support! https://www.patreon.com/powerdogadventures

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland is created in the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes of the first people who made their homes along the rivers.