I recently joined a Unitarian Universalist church... but I sometime go to Mormon (LDS) church... but sometimes I don't go to either... but I don't really believe in the Mormon church... but...

Basically, I talk about why I left the Mormon church, why I started to attend Mormon church again, and why I joined the Unitarian Universalists church. How can I be both a practicing Mormon (Very nuanced), and a Unitarian Universalist? It goes to show, spirituality is not something that you can put in a box.

We talk about oranges!  I share some orange-related folk music, talk about trying to eat a pomelo, some divorce trauma, but we don't talk about orange julius... I wish we would have talked about orange julius, they are really good!

I talk about sections. I meditate on philosophy of what it means to experience life, and how we can find wholeness or perfection.  I talk a bit about LDS theology, math, food, folklore, and more.

I talk about dinner, expectations, Norman Rockwell, fried chicken.  But I don't talk about the family dinner bell! I forgot! Oh well!

I talk about my thoughts on distance. We explore how distance is relative based on age and excitement level. We talk about how I can't even comprehend distances greater than 5 hours by car, and how we can/cannot bridge emotional bridges as I reflect on my divorce. 

Today I give my word and memory associations to snails, which lead to a conversation about grandmas, gardens, ocean acidification, and snail sex.

We think over in the USA, where I talk about the classic tween sleepover game "Bloody Mary".  Who was Bloody Mary, what is the ritual or game like, what is the science behind the strange things you see in dark mirrors?  And because I was too scared to play the game as a kid, I talk about other spooky sleepover games that I played.

I love mushrooms. So I talk about mushrooms, including topics such as MAD, Fly agaric, toadstools, bears, and the king of mushrooms.

Come think over in Southeast Asia as we talk about the Kting Voar - a cryptid cow that has special twisted horns and supposedly eats snakes. As recently as the early 2000s zoologists have been debating whether or not a species of snake-eating cow exists in Cambodia and Vietnam.  Learn all about the scientific controversy surrounding this legendary animal in this episode.  

Article references: Locking Horns - Hassanin, et al.,  Nature, 2002 

Phnom Penh Journal; Cambodia's Mystery, the Horns That Never Were - Mydans, NY TImes, 2002. 

Pseudonovibos spiralis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae): new infomration on this enigmatic South-east Asian ox - Timm, et al., J. Zool., Lond, 2001 

Horny Dilemma -Science, 2001. Debate on the authenticity of Pseudonovibos spiralis as a new species of wild bovid from Vietnam and Cambodia - Brandt, et al., J. Zool., Lond, 2001.

Today we think over in Asia, as we talk about the Mid-Autumn Festival, we talk about festival traditions, moon cakes, and the legend of Chang'e and Hou Yi.  So be sure to spend some time with family and give your respects to the moon during the Harvest Moon!