The Folium Diary
122 episodes
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Welcome In!
In this diary I will be recording my impressions of a new program called The Folium, which will "synthesize planetary biometry, creating an experience beyond artificial intelligence, and bring the benefits of the Earth's collective wisdom to everyone, everywhere, all the time." If that sounds wildly ambitious and kinda crazy, you're in the right place.
Start on Page 1 and you'll ketchup 🍅 in no time.
Language: English
Format: Audio Drama
Continuity: Serial
Writing: Scripted
Voices: Solo
Narrator: First Person
Genres: Educational and Philosophical, Soap opera
Framing device: Journal or Log
Soundscape: Voices only
Maturity: All audience
Country of origin: United States
Completion status: Partial
Not tagged: [Transcript]
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Episodes:
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:00:00 -0800
...CONTINUED FROM LAST EPISODE
Cherie said the key to the lost room is where I would be sure to "step on it". At her birthday party, in the same parlor I was sitting in while reading Mr. Davies letter, I made the mistake of confessing I had left the LEGO piece on the floor that she stepped on weeks before. Mr. Davies had bought a LEGO set of the X-Men Mansion because he thought it looked like the Lodge. He put it together himself and made a nice case for it, but left the other pieces out for guests (and pests such as me) to play with. After a battle in which Rogue whipped Wolverine, I couldn't find Wolverine's head. I guess Cher's foot found it. Oops! When I told Cher, she laughed and said 'forget about it', which should have been a red flag – The Folium Never Forgets.
That night, at the Girl's Only Parlor Party, where Cher did the Dance of the Seven Veils (flashing some very chic lingerie), we took off our shoes for a limbo contest (which I won, by the way). Afterwards, I put on my bunny slippers, but when I stood up there was a stabbing pain in my left foot, and I yelped. Everyone crowded around to see what was wrong – except Cher, who was rolling on the floor laughing. When I pulled off the slipper, there was Wolverine's head stuck in my instep – and she calls me the monster!
To make a short story long, the key was inside the Mansion and I had no trouble finding it, but I checked for booby-traps, just in case – with Cher, you can't be too careful.
If Cher thought I needed a clue to find the room she would have left one - 'no brain, no pain', as they say in informatics – but she hadn't, so I considered the options. The basement was full of offices, a bar, the spa, etc, so the top floor was the logical place to start. I discarded the guest rooms – McMenamins would make sure those were secure (can't have guests disappearing unintentionally, can we?)
That left the housekeeper's store-room, which I entered stealthily around 6pm. I'd been here before, either helping the housekeepers or swiping shampoo, and been fascinated by the laundry chute. Sam once joked about throwing me down the chute to see what would happen...I think he was joking. I checked around the chute and opened the hatch – nothing. I stepped back, and noticed narrow seams in the wall – as if the wall itself was a door. I looked for a keyhole, but there was only a light-switch. I flipped the switch on and off, but nothing happened. I tried again, and noticed a click when the switch was up. I pulled on the switch, and the panel opened, revealing a keyhole! Someone went to a lot of trouble to hide this place, I thought, as I turned the key and a section of the wall swung open...maybe I should have knocked first. Too late now!
The room I saw was small but comfortable. I stepped around the laundry chute and entered. It was spotless. There was a small bed, a desk with a lamp and chair, and a mini-fridge. One wall was covered with pictures of mushrooms. The other wall was shelving, with neat stacks of magazines, each issue in its own plastic sleeve. I picked up the closest one – the face staring back was regal in appearance. It looked like an old movie magazine, and there were two copies of this issue, so before I had time to think about it, I slipped the less pristine copy in my sweatpants and turned back towards the door. My foot bumped the desk, and something on it lit up - I had jostled a smartphone. The image on the screen was an elderly man with a white beard and jolly smile, who I didn't recognize, next to another person who was very familiar – Cherie!
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Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:00:00 -0800
WELCOME TO DAISY DROPS!
Written, recorded (on a zoom call with Mom), and edited by Daisy - that's me! Yes, there may be a little room for improvement - I'm getting a better mic and practicing vocally vexatious tongue twisters every day. The next episode in February should have a nice glow-up. Tune-in and see!
Ps. Here is the 'boring' material I left out of the show (that's reverse psychology...but if I tell you that, does it reverse the reverse? Whatever! Just read this. Please.)
When I got back to the Lodge, there was an envelope in my employee mail slot marked 'FY👁️ Only'. I took it to our favorite parlor to open, and inside was a Lodge key-card and a note, which read:
Miss Daisy, you are hereby promoted to Special Assistant to the General Manager (not Special Assistant General Manager, sorry). This key-card opens every electronic lock in the Lodge. Miss Hazzard modified it (some might say hacked) to be untraceable, and it will never expire. I did not approve this alteration and know nothing about it. Ahem.
While perusing the Lodge's original blueprints – something she apparently enjoyed in her spare time – Cherie found what appeared to be an old room that was never wired for key-card access. When she showed it to me, I recalled that Sultan, our lobby lion (That's what she looks like to me, anyhow), has a wooden collar, and on it is a carved wooden key (I concede lion's do not usually wear collars). Miss Hazzard said she was intimately familiar with Sultan – at which point she blushed – and would check it out. Later, she said she replicated the key with the Lodge's 3D printer (I didn't know we had such a thing – did you?), and would look for the room when she had time.
Well, you know Miss Hazzard and time – they often seemed to be unfamiliar with the concept of each other (Did she tell you about the time I found her in the parlor at 4am watching a sumo wrestling tournament live from Japan while nibbling from a plate of sushi obtained from who-knows-where? I admit to aiding and abetting such behavior by procuring a bottle of sake from the cellar. But I digress). The last time we spoke, she said she never got around to exploring the room itself. I told her to pass the key on to you, as you have a similar spirit of adventure. She said she would leave it someplace where you were sure to 'step on it'. I trust you know or can deduce what that is supposed to mean.
One more thing: you might not want to mention your promotion (or the key, or the Whackamolé Movie Club), to the new General Manager until you're sure they have the same... esprit de corps, shall we say.
It's been a pleasure getting to know you, and I wish you all the best,
Henry Davies
A secret promotion! A lost room! A hidden key! See, I told you it was boring.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0800
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts
His acts being seven ages...
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Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:00:00 -0800
Hi Mom!
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0800
Our winners are:
- Alex in Michigan
- Colin, of North Yorkshire
- Heather in Northern California
- Jaidyn, from British Columbia
- Jain in Denham, UK
- Kathryn, from Boston
- Werner in South Africa
Congratulations Everyone!
Visit The Athletic Community to view their many fine products 🧦🚲
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:00:00 -0800
The contest and question period are now closed, and Fan Mail is disabled. Please tune in Sunday night for the results, and thank you for your participation.
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0800
What's your favorite page in the Diary?
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Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0800
The Folium CEO would like to remind listeners they can submit questions about the Folium this week via Fan Mail, whether you are entering the contest or not. We will try to answer as many as we can on Sunday the 11th.
Our CEO does seem to have gone on at some length regarding the history of the organization and other sensitive matters. As Ms. Hazzard is the only one with the authority to override the CEO's actions, and she was last seen pedaling a rather beat-up old bicycle down a rather bumpy dirt road (see photo from Ms. Hazzard) on the island of St. Croix, wearing a white cotton sun dress and floppy straw hat while carrying a loaf of bread, cheese, water, and no electronic devices whatsoever, well, here you go.
- Pax
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Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0800
Email received with correct answer. Way to go Brockton!
- Ares
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Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0800
Hello. We hope you are enjoying the contest. We received a correct answer that did not include an email address, so we have no way to contact that person.
Folium Fan Mail is only one-way – we can't text you back. That's probably a good thing, as Quel was ready to disqualify them with a message that can politely be described as, 'lacerating'. Ares managed to placate her by promising her the World's Largest Rubik's cube, a case of her favorite diet soda, and a highly experimental, sub-atomic pencil sharpener. So, if you want to be entered in to the contest, make sure your email address is included with your answer.
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Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:00:00 -0800
Welcome to the Folium Sock Contest. The prizes are $50 digital gift certificates to The Athletic Community, home of the famous PDX carpet sock (as worn by Cherie Hazzard!)
To enter:
- Solve the puzzle and text us your answer and email address
- To text, go to our homepage, select any episode and click the link that says 'Folium Fan Mail' (link should also work from most podcast apps)
- Entries must be sent by 9PM Pacific, Friday, January 9th
- Seven winners will be randomly selected from the correct entries
- Winners will be contacted by email
- Results will be published on Sunday the 11th
Here is the puzzle, by Cherie Hazzard
- Revisit each page where I'm in my Prime
- At the end of each note, you'll now find a #letter
- Put them together (it's not going to rhyme!)
- Then send us the answer, the quicker the better
Quel added a bonus puzzle for informatics enthusiasts. If you solve it, add QUEL to your message and you'll be contacted for the answer. Get it right and you might be offered a job as her new assistant!
One more thing...
The Folium CEO graciously agreed to answer questions about The Folium. Submit your inquiries via Fan Mail by the 9th, and we will respond to as many as we can on the 11th.
Thank you and good luck!
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Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:00:00 -0800
The Folium Never Forgets 🐘
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Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:00:00 -0800
DJ Daisy spins the Folium's favorite 78s
- Shirley Temple • Hey, What Did The Blue Jay Say?
- Ada Falcon • La Ultima Copa*
- Young Crooners • Akasabali**
- Semi Sheheen • Dabka Dance
- Dol Dauber's Orchestra • Of Youth
- Samantha Church • I Knew You Back In Before Times***
- Christopher Hogwood • Pastorale
*Cher made two New Year's Resolutions: #1 Stop drinking so much, #2 Start drinking less. You can do it big bird!
**Zoe showed me some sick capoeira moves - she did a handstand and almost took out a chandelier!
***Mom drops the f-bomb!💣🙉
This isn't my real voice, of course, but I designed it (ElevenLabs is rad!) You know better than to believe everything you hear from the Folium, right?
By the way...
...would you like some raspberries?? 😈
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Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:00:00 -0800
Thank you for listening!
- Thanks Isabella, Samantha, and Stephen 🏆🏆🏆
- Thanks to the Pacific Northwest for inspiration 🍄🍄
- Thanks to Goldwave, Audacity, Buzzsprout, and Wikipedia 🌐
- Thanks to Maz Ghani for the Folium Leaf 🍃 and Daisy's daisies
- Synthetic voices by ElevenLabs 🤖
No AI was used to write this show, but we borrowed liberally from the Books of the Week. Thank you Pat, Cass, Rachel, Rosi, Mary, Eric, Edgar, Rob, Naomi, Octavia, Nick, Ray, and L.A. Meyer 🏴☠️
Oh yes, the sock give-away! 🤦🏻♀️
Tune-in January 2nd for Rules & Regulations 🫡
🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦🧦
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
This ends the Folium Diary 🍃
(Sorry for posting so late! Raff kept texting with questions about our trip)
[I wouldn't have so many questions if you told me the plan in the first place]
(I was rather busy launching the app I spent the last ten years working on)
[Yes but I'm the pilot and we can't take off without knowing where we're going]
(True, but it's my plane and you could cut me some slack)
Would you vexatious virago’s please stop?! We are trying to enjoy the last page of the diary.
(Sorry! I've been under a lot of pressure. Raff – see you at Hillsboro in a few hours. Don't forget to turn on the hot tub!)
Tune-in tomorrow for the Epilogue
#Y
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0800
Cherie, thank you for letting me make my first (and probably last) podcast episode!
Seven Sevens:
- Feast of the Seven Fishes
- Life in Seven Songs podcast
- Seven Pillars of the Circular Economy
- Seven Samurai film
- Seven Perceptual States
- New Seven Wonders of the World
- Dance of the Seven Veils
(Cherie also said 'Folium' is actually spelled with seven letters, like Ffynnon, but the second 'f' is invisible. Was she kidding? With Cherie, you never really know )
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Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Interview
Protocol has been completely scuttled. This episode was supposed to be Dispatch 7, and the interview with Professor B was supposed be yesterday, and...whatever. As Ferris says, life moves pretty fast – if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I didn't want to miss getting together with Jane and Daisy – we could be sisters!! Raff was on her best behavior and put on a real charm offensive – she took Jane out for a ride on her motorcycle while Daisy and I plotted our next adventure, which you'll hear about shortly. Raff and Jane came back with takeout from Buckshot Betty's, including 'Hot Mama' Betty herself, who followed them in her beat-up pickup truck that looks like it came over on the Oregon Trail. We had a great time, and many stories were swapped – some of them even true.
I hope you (yes you, with your earbuds on...in?...trying to figure out what the heck mushrooms have to do with anything) will forgive me for misleading you these last few months. The Folium is a journey, not a destination, and the last ten years are only the prologue - tomorrow is the real page one.
Ok, these notes are turning in to an essay/confession, and you're probably wondering when I'm going to just shut up and let you listen to the show. Very soon! After the interview I let Professor B tell one of his jokes, which will be posted later tonight. Let's just say he's an even better teacher than he is comedian.
Oh for heavens sake, one more thing: if you would like to learn more about Bucky's World Game, and the Folium sincerely hopes that you do, please visit the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Thank you Bucky (and Marshall!)
Your huckleberry friend, Cherie 🫐
#T
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Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Zoom Call
Jane's wearing the Wildfang/Peanuts shirt Daisy gave her. Lucy is yelling at Charlie Brown, "After I got to be President, it would be only one short step to QUEEN!!" Daisy says she's Lucy, and we better stay out of her way 😜 Such a lovely child 🙄
#I
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Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Dispatch 6*
*Every time I open the file it's longer than before - now it's over 42,700 pages! So I copied some interesting 'Foliumisms' from the first few pages and read them over this. I may have gone overboard with vocal fx, but, yolo ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
#M
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Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Dispatch 5
"trust your gut"
#L
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Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Dispatches 3 & 4
(Smoke was admirably tight-lipped about the numerous breaches of protocol that took place in the family's absence. I'm sure someday Maria will discover the scratches on the dining table that Smoke and I covered up with a lovely floral centerpiece, but by then I'll be in the wind and Smoke can fend for herself. Bad Co-Host, bad! )
#U
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Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:00:00 -0800
This page is dedicated to the memory of Fred Silver - musician, composer, lyricist, author, and vocal coach. He wrote seven musicals and over a hundred choral pieces, including this epic, performed here by the harmonious hepcats of Gotcha!
#D
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Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:00:00 -0800
The Folium would like to thank Todd Parker and the Witches 🖤🖤
Happy Holidays!
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Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Dispatch 2
Smoke has been promoted to Co-host for the next few episodes. She accepted the position once she realized it meant increased chin scratches, more frequent treats, and getting to jump on all the places Maria normally tries to prevent her from jumping on. In return, she promises not to play with my mouse 🖱️ yeah right 😹
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Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Happy to hear Raff and Ares made up - those two are high-maintenance!
#C
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Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0800
ARES ALERT 🙉 ADJUST VOLUME 🔊🔉🔈
"He had arrived in the city that morning on a Greyhound bus and would be leaving the same way..."
From Exit Strategy
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Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
The Chakras
- Crown: White
- Third Eye: Indigo
- Throat: Blue
- Heart: Green
- Solar Plexus: Yellow
- Sacral: Orange
- Root: Red
Chakra means “wheel” and refers to energy points in your body. They are thought to be spinning disks of energy that should stay “open” and aligned, as they correspond to bundles of nerves, major organs, and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well-being.
#N
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Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Last night's party ended just like this!
(w/o Matthew Broderick, but Ferris was there in spirit)
#S
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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
L. A. Meyer was the author of the Bloody Jack series, which chronicles the exploits of an impetuous heroine who fought her way up from the squalid streets of London to become an adventurer of the highest order 🏴☠️
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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
The Folium Books of the Week
- The Girl From Spaceship Earth: Surf's Up!
- Valuing Life: Rules and Regulations rule
- The Hard Crowd: A writer may be in the world but is not always of the world
- Nomadic Theory: Everything is alive and in motion
- Frankenstein: Life's what you make it
- The Operating System: Anarchy Rules!
- Decolonizing Wealth: Anything can be medicine
- Astrology Is Real: Wisdom is infinite
- Doppelgänger: Only our shadows know for sure
- Digital Communion: The Medium is the Messiah
- Parable of the Talents: Change yourself and you change the world
- Danielle: Be your own hero
- Bloody Jack 🏴☠️ PROTOCOL BE SCUTTLED 🏴☠️
#I
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Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
I Quit (the book, not the show!)
#C
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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
We all have our own ways of letting off steam 🏁
#I
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Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Yesterday's musical coda was by the wonderful Alyssandra Nighswonger 🏹
Ps. I asked Pax if we could keep fan mail open for one more day because, to be honest, I enjoy the attention 😅
#L
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Thank you for the lovely birthday messages!
Pax just sprung that on me - I had no idea. I really appreciate each and every one of you that has listened to this show. We are on the home stretch!
(Confidential to TP: Thanks so much for the gift! I forwarded it to Gil to post on Christmas Eve)
#B
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Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Hello again, this is Pax.
If you would like to send Miss Hazzard birthday wishes, we have enabled Fan Mail at The Folium Diary.
Click the link that says 'It's Cherie's Birthday' from any episode to send a text message to the Folium. The link will be active until Page 85 is posted.
Thank you for listening to The Folium Diary.
(Fan Mail should work from most podcast apps, although it may take time for the link to appear in the notes)
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Choose Your Leaders Wisely
- To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears
- To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool
- To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen
- To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to
- To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery
#I
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Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Giving my voice (and you 😉) the night off. Instead, please enjoy this audio of Octavia Butler at a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002.
FYI, this book sounds great:
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
"Susana M. Morris places Butler’s story firmly within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, Reaganomics. Morris reveals how these influences profoundly impacted Butler’s personal and intellectual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing"
Added to my post-diary reading list ☑️
#U
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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
I do my best work behind the scenes 🎭
#P
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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Live from the ladies room of the Growler Garage 🧻
(Sorry to edit out some juicy gossip ✂️ People I don't know dishing on other people I don't know - now I know too much! )
#Y
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Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"We are born, not with purpose, but with potential"
#N
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Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"Parables can be understood only from within"
"Frankenstein is a parable for the rise and fall of artificial intelligence"
- Cherie Hazzard (Who says I can't quote myself? )
#D
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Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Five Postulates of a Spiritual Vision for the Internet
- In the Virtual World, There Is Only The Present
- To Be ON the Internet Is Not To Be OF the Internet
- Virtual Communion Can Lessen Isolation
- We Must Re-Imagine the Sacraments in the Virtual World
- We Must Transcend Obsolescence
The virtual world makes us disembodied and discarnate - we become angels.
Online, we are more than our bodies - we are all soul.
#E
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Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Rats! Mispronounced Ffynnon - again. I really need a mnemonic... How about, 'Huckleberry Finn, under the moonlit sky' - Finn-un - got it!
...then I found this in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'...
"As I lay there, I smoked my tobacco and looked into the sky - not a cloud was in it. The sky looks very deep when you lie down on your back in the moonlight"
...which got me thinking about this...
Moon River, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style someday
Oh, dream maker
You heartbreaker
Wherever you're going, you're going my way
Two drifters off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waiting 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon River and me
...Did you know Huck Finn faked his own death? Could it be the work of the Amelia Project?!
(How's that for polyfusion, Quel? ... Ok, don't answer that )
#T
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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
A Daisy a Day Drives the Doldrums Away! 🌼😊
#C
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Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
You can't force polyfusion
“Twenty-five hundred years of rational culture are in the process of dissolution. Age-old habits of conceptualization will not serve to train observation on the effects of the new man-made forms of energy. Since Plato, philosophers and scientists have attributed constant forms and patterns of action only to the world of ‘Nature.’ Both Plato and Aristotle, and their followers, as well as all the other schools of philosophy, have refused to recognize any patterns of energy arising from man-made technologies. Having invented ‘Nature’ as a world of rigorous order and repetition, they studied and observed only ‘natural’ forms as having power to shape and influence psyche and society. The world of man’s artifacts was considered neutral until the electric age. As the electric environment increasingly engulfed the old Greek ‘Nature,’ it became apparent that ‘Nature’ was a figure abstracted from a ground of existence that was far from ‘natural.’”
#A
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth - we are all crew
🌐 Like-Minded Visionaries 🍁
#E
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
“Your faith is proclaimed all over the world”
(That was interesting. Pax is nice, and Ares sounds just like I imagined 🙉)
#I
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Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:00:00 -0800
"The Amelia Project is a secret agency that offers a very special service: Faking its clients' deaths and bringing them back with a new identity"
Check out all the great shows at Fable & Folly
Voices by ElevenLabs (Pip is real!)
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:00:00 -0800
YES! ✊🏻
Thanks, Ares 🦄
It was time to update my profile. I'm wearing my Wildfang tee from Daisy and holding a Peanuts pin Mom gave me that says 'SPEAK OUT!!' Both depict Lucy, who is loud, brash, bold, and can be a bit... sneaky 🏈 What's that got to do with me??
#T
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
💐 Home Sweet Lodge! So nice to come back to a sparkling clean room (not a single cruffin crumb!) and fresh flowers. Thank you, Sam 😊
🙉 Apologies for yesterdays aural assault. On the other ear, if you want more 🫨🫨
🍃 Oops! Daisy says "LeaF is pronounced leaf, like the Folium leaf. I should've made a note - sorry" ...she didn't tease me! 😧 I'd feel better if she called me a dodo 🦤
🍷 I asked Mr. Davies about the wine cellar. He said I was welcome to sample any bottle already open for tasting (he did emphasize sample 😅)
Ps. Do I use too many emojis? 🤔
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
This episode brought to you by DoppelDäisy 🌼
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"our world is confusing...but not incomprehensible"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
🦃 Doppeltürkeys 🦃
Extra Credit for Informatics Addicts: Match the quotes to their book 📖
Voices by ElevenLabs
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"...it's not just individuals who are being copied, but the entirety of human existence..."
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Doppelgängers in the news
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Any adventure worth having begins with an ample supply of clean socks 🧦🧦🧦
Let's Roll!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"where else could you get drama like this?" 🎭
(Sagittarius Season! ♐ I really enjoyed pondering the mystical musings of Rob Brezsny. Here's a bit of this week's advice for Sag's: "Contrary to every other planet, on Venus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. If celestial bodies can be so gloriously contrary to convention, so can you" - I feel that! 🪐Thanks Rob)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"sometimes you just want to eat dinner without knowing how the tofu is made"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
DON'T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE.
REALLY, DO NOT LISTEN TO IT!
🔇🙉🔇 STOP!! 🔇🙉🔇
(This has been an experiment in 'reverse psychology'. Did it work??)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Thanks Raff 🍕🍕🤌🏻
Thanks Daisy 🌲🤕😘
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Rhymes with Re•al•it•y
- Afternoon Tea
- Banana Tree
- Carmel-By-The-Sea
- Doctor's Degree
- Egyptian Pea
- Fiddledeedee
- Vitamin G
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
♈♉♊♋ASTROLOGY
♌♍♎♏IS
♐♑♒♓REAL
(Special Thanks to Laural Virtues Wauters for Infinity Mandala)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
The Seven Steps to Healing
- Grieve
- Apologize
- Listen
- Relate
- Represent
- Invest
- Repair
“If we are going to heal, let it be glorious”
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Today was a Hot Mess 🥪🍺
(btw, it's To Rome With Love 🎙️🚿)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:00:00 -0800
This is why I don't go down to Doc's until after editing! 😮💨
Reciprocity is an intriguing (if vocally vexatious) concept:
"...reciprocity can look like art. Like advocacy. Like structural change. Like refusing to see ourselves as separate from the systems and relationships that sustain us. This shift — from transaction to responsibility — helps us reframe what it means to give, to receive, and to belong in relationship. When we understand ourselves as part of a web of relations, reciprocity becomes a way of life, not a checklist. It becomes less about immediate repayment, but about how we live in right relation across time, space, and power."
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
“Indigenous people believe they belong to the land, non-Indigenous people believe the land belongs to them, the State believes the land and the people belong to it”
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Raff doesn't want pictures of the pagoda posted until it's finished, so here's a lovely pagoda in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
I'd been played like a violin 🎻 but I liked it 🍝🍝
(next year for sure! 🎃)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"You don’t choose the medicine - it chooses you"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
🤠 Howdy Neighbor!
The Folium celebrates World Science Day for Peace by welcoming our listeners from Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
🤍🖤 Thank you for choosing to spend time with us 🤍🖤
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house – Audre Lorde
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"The State isn’t just a barrier to the world we want – it’s what we have instead"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"...Anarchism reflects a growing disillusionment with the State..."
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Guardare la Café Racer - fastest 'draw' in Forest Grove ☕☕
(I was trying not to ask if Frank made, uhhh, amorous advances towards Sultán - this is a family podcast, after all. In my defense, I was wearing a bunny costume)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
"If not now, when?"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:00:00 -0800
Day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motion
As idle as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean
An article about the doldrums from a scientist named Windmiller 🌬️
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:00:00 -0800
Let one being be selected as the refuse of their kind, and you impose upon them the irresistible obligations of malevolence and selfishness.
Treat a person ill, and they will become wicked.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Let me be Frank...Have a Happy Halloween!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"...events which materially influence our destinies are often caused by trivial occurrences..."
👻If you got it, haunt it👻
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"He is both repelled and impressed by human connections, but never finds someone to empathize with his own situation. He is the classic ‘outsider’...a physical symbol of prejudice, violence, and blind fears of ‘civilized beings’"
(Oops, the link was in Mondays episode, but Sneha's whole blog is gold)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Thank you Sneha Jaiswal!
(the mysterious messenger was Daisy, who had to run off to her next assignment. Way to hustle!)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Welcome to the second trimester of the Folium Diary!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"...take only memories, leave only footsteps...." 👣
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"...catch the wave of life’s intensities and ride it, exposing the boundaries as we transgress them" 🏄🏼♀️
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Ffynnon (Welsh, pronounced FIN-un) means 'source,' or 'spring'
Got it! I hope...
(Thank you Daisy! I needed a break from nomadic nebulosity)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Kids, a friendly reminder: Pick up all your LEGO's when you're done playing (Truthfully, not-so-friendly: that hurt 🤬)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"capitalism functions as the great nomad"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"this weeks assignment has an elevated lexile level intended to induce cognitive challenges, which may result in mild neurological distress [aka headaches]. But as we say in congruent informatics, no brain, no pain"*
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*If you came here from the contest instructions because you remembered our motto, congratulations - you are sharper than the least-sharp pencil in my pencil case. But if you really thought I was going to give you a useful clue to my puzzle, it is my pleasure to dash your hopes upon the pertinacious pinnacles of polyfusion. Quel.
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"Do you believe everything you hear?"
🌶️ Hot really hot add a little jalapeño
🌶️ Make it hot really hot add a little jalapeño
🌶️ Make it hot really hot add a little jalapeño make it hot!
Music by the wonderful Christine Lavin
Ps. The 'hipster sock company' is The Athletic Community - check out their hot socks!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"The Vincent Black Shadow attracted fervent admirers. Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote about this magnificent machine, adding to its allure"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"The abolitionist ideology is based on economic and social justice, concern for all victims, and reconciliation within a caring community"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"Every age has its hopes...hopes that try to pierce into the future"
(This episode is not contagious - promise!)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
The Ship That Sank Twice, and one to dine for.
(With respect for those lost at sea)
Also in this episode, fun with gramophones.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"Drinks gas. Spits nails." A Tribute to Mary McGee 🏍️
I came across this while researching the Baja 1000.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Actually, there's a pavilion and a pagoda!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"Without you, I'm just talking to myself"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"The world of costs and benefits is quite a different decisional universe from the sledgehammer reasoning of consequence-independent duties and obligations."
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Ares 🍃 vs. Ares 🏍️
(there was some Tron-related silliness with the pictures of the contributors. If your podcast platform doesn't show you those, check out the show's homepage. On the other hand, you didn't miss much - Pax)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Thanks to the old salt at the Seaside Historical Society for telling a well-worn tale one more time - it sent shivers up me timbers.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"I'm not complaining, although it may sound like I'm complaining"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Please note: The 'Hot Mama Sausage' is on the menu as a side dish. I 'forgot' to mention that I'd eaten a delicious burger before the kids dared me down the path of culinary chaos. No shade on Betty! (Yes, I'm still scared of her)
(Look at Raff's leaf! Why does she get to be so extra?)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"This haven from the storm of life is intended to afford to the young the news of hopeful endeavor, and to the elders, the comforts which befit the setting sun of well-spent lives."
🌄
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Thanks Pat Ravasio for a wonderful first Folium book!
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
*trying to keep this podcast family friendly ;-)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
This episode should be called 🧀The Folium Dairy 🧀
C'mon, that was a-mooooo-sing 🐄
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"It's starting to hit me - this is real"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"...bold, positive, and hopeful..."
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
We start our first book of the week!
(Oops - did I say "world's largest barber pole"? I meant "tallest". But come to think of it, wouldn't the tallest also be the largest?? Forest Grove might want to have a word with these folks.)
In non-barber pole news, I'm now announcing the diary page number at the start of each episode, making it easier to follow and less likely some klutz records over an existing episode 🙄
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Love the sketch, Prof B!
(How come the Folium Board gets purple leaves?)
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
I think the soaking pool deserves its own guest page, and Ruby's Spa? Of course! I expect to be conducting a lot of research there.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
"Who knew making a podcast could get this muddy?"
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
I'm going to find out who plays the beautiful theme music - it makes me feel mysterious!
UPDATE: I have been informed the music was performed by Big Lazy! Surely this is a band after my own lazy heart. I will add them as a contributor.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Be sure to check out the Grand Lodge - it's really something!
Today was absolutely gorgeous - hope you had a good day.
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0700
Hello World!
Thanks for joining me on this journey.
Cheers, Cherie
Ps. I'm not sure whose voice is in the Prologue. Sounds like a bot with a cold.
NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700
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NEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26