Michael Perry's Blog, page 59
March 10, 2021
Threads
Snapshots is back! And with a seasonally appropriate winter-to-spring anthem with words from Michael Perry, music from Evan Middlesworth Music, and photos from Tim Abraham and Jim Ivory. Produced by EC’s very own writer-in-residence Ken Szymanski. Treat yourself to four minutes of, as Mike puts it, feeling “the earth give again…”
Original music available on Michael Perry and the Long Beds album “Long Road To You,” available here.
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March 9, 2021
Voice Mail Episode #37 “The First Warm Air”
Current Snowman SituationUp for subscribers here.
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March 8, 2021
Michael Perry: A painting as a window into the past, present and future
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: A painting as a window into the past, present and future‘ can be seen online here.
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March 4, 2021
Goldangit, Sometimes…
…someone shares something with me and it quietly makes my day. So thanks to the person who alerted me to this.
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March 2, 2021
Voice Mail Episode #36 “The Big Melt”
Up for subscribers here.
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Mike reads “Gratitude”
REPOSTED FROM 2020: Had a snowed-in Easter with our little family of four. Kinda redundant, to be snowed in during a quarantine. Anyways, we had a good day, a good evening, now the fire’s banked, and having just tromped out through the white stuff and back to lock down the chicken coop, I’m gonna call it a night. I hadn’t recorded anything yet, so I’m going to re-post the recording of the time I opened up Roughneck Grace and read the “Gratitude” essay on Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? show. I was unprepared for the reaction it received. I can’t know the state of your heart or situation, and I do not presume to preach, but I’m grateful for the good people out there, and the good they do. (This essay is the last piece in the book Roughneck Grace, available in most bookstores and along with all the others in the Sneezing Cow store.
The complete text is here.
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March 1, 2021
Michael Perry: The strong may survive, but the antifragile may miss out on the sublime
Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s column ‘Michael Perry: The strong may survive, but the antifragile may miss out on the sublime‘ can be seen online here.
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February 24, 2021
Professional Noticer
Howdy Folks:
A while back Mike was a guest on The Professional Noticer with Andy Andrews. Andy and I are twins who have actually never met.
You can watch the entire episode here.
We discussed many things including Montaigne in Barn Boots, which you can purchase here.
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February 23, 2021
Tall Pines Conservancy Fundraiser (Ride to the Barns)
On February 25, 2021, Tall Pines Conservancy will be presenting “An Evening with Michael Perry” as part of an important fundraiser to support the farmland conservation and water-quality initiatives of Tall Pines Conservancy.
While most of you know what Mike does, we’d like to let you know what Tall Pines Conservancy does in a series of videos leading up to the event day. If you are interested in attending, more event details are here.
Here is a video about Ride to the Barns.
Ride to the Barns is an annual fundraising bicycle ride through Lake Country and rolling farmland in Waukesha, Washington and Dodge counties. Rest stops include farms serving locally produced food to highlight farmland preservation.
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Welcome to Michael Perry’s Sneezing Cow
If you’re here because you just saw Mike speak, or heard him interviewed, here’s some background.
More on Population 485 here (see lefthand column for audio and ebook versions).
Forty Acres Deep can be heard here.
If you’re here because you heard Mike mention his new “Voice Mail” audio newsletter in an interview or on a stream (he’s been doing a lot of those lately) the main page is right here. Scroll through, several of the episodes are free. For subscription options, click here (it says “Subscribe” but you’ll be able to review options first).
For miscellany, please visit the “Shirts, Posters & Doohickies” page.
Finally, we enjoy (and benefit from) communicating with readers and listeners via Facebook and other social media outlets, but every now and then they tweak an algorithm or change the rules behind the scenes and we are reminded there is no better way to stay in touch than by good old fashioned mailing list, so if you haven’t signed up, please consider it. Info (including what we will and won’t do with your info) right here.
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