Thanks to Jay Valentine and Kim Green for speaking to me for this story. You can find Kim’s webstore at BlackB4U.com. Also thank you Alex Painter for connecting me with Jay and thanks to the Negro Leagues Hall of Fame Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

Music from the public domain and by: Yclept Insan, Hannah Lee, Anthony Ouradnik.

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This season was made with support from the Google Podcasts Creator Program through PRX.

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Thank you to Michael Branch who wrote a short story on the rodeo that partially inspired my curiosity in the rodeo clown. Thanks to Geoff from In Other News Radio who interviewed Michael Bala. And Thanks to Willie and Connor for talking with me.

The music in this episode was In the Gloaming and Rovin’ Cowboy from the public domain, plus a track from friend of the show Yclept Insan.

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A welcome to new listeners, and an announcement.

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My office is a field of poison flowers

purple swaying in the breeze.

It is also a pathway. For a bear, whose tracks have on occasion encountered my own. Surprised by each other’s quiet presence, we make eye contact before retreat.

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On the way to my desk, I traverse a shelf more mixed than lush: Throat Forest — a half failing aspen grove, green shoots among the fallen white trunks.

• That which is pliant is a disciple of life: that which is rigid, a disciple of death. •

Throat Forest voices this point. The living trees bend and sway, while the dead hold steady and unwavering: solemn monuments, they are their own gravestones.

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This has been a year of adjustment, a season of bending and adapting. But in so, a year of life. 

I appreciate your presence, and this show will return soon, with more findings and searchings. 

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Kiko Dinucci: “It's been about 10 years since I've realized that in my music, in all my works and projects, such as Metá Metá, I have been working with something beautiful and something ugly; something violent and something lyrical. And I think Brazil is like that. It is a tropical country with wonderful nature, but it has its past and history marked by death, exploitation, and so on and so on… So we live with many amazing things, especially when we think about our culture and nature; but there's a lot of bad stuff too. Thus, we still have a lot of marks from our colonial period, from slavery, from military dictatorship… so I got used to writing songs in this way: bringing together beautiful and ugly things; lyrical and violent things. I like that mix and I like artists who play with it.”

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Let's take a long walk. We'll park at the Walmart. Cross the asphalt, past the Arby's and the TJ Maxx. Get on the sidewalk, right between the street and the parking lot. Now, keep walking. Pass the KFC and the Payless Shoes. In just a few long minutes you'll reach the Circle K. Hit the crosswalk button -- it's only you on foot. Watch the traffic back up as you slowly cross the 6 lanes and step into the Burger King parking lot. Behind it, you'll find a Costco. Now the trick is to keep walking, as far as you can, until you can't anymore. And then turn around and walk back.

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In a quest to understand the Aeolian Harp, an interview with composer John Luther Adams. 

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