#197: A Honeymoon in the House of the Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia, c. 2300 BCE

An episode from 8/27/25: Tonight, I read from Amanda Podany’s wonderful book, Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East. After a royal wedding took place in the ancient Syrian city of Ebla around 2300 BCE, the new king and queen spent no less than three weeks among the tombs and statues of their royal forbears.

I conclude the episode with the response of one listener to the last episode, where he notes that the London docks of 1850 aren’t much different from similar places in contemporary India.

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#219: When a paragraph changes your life – Human Voices Wake Us

An episode from 3/2/26: Tonight, I read a single paragraph from two books that each had a profound effect on my understanding of religion, creativity, and a great deal else. The first comes from page one of Mircea Eliade’s History of Religious Ideas, and the second from John Eliot Gardiner’s Johann Sebastian Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven.What is your equivalent of these passages? Email me or send an audio file to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I may use it in an upcoming episode.The best way to support the podcast is by leaving a review on Apple or Spotify, sharing it with others, or sending me a note on what you think. You can also order any of my books: Time and the River: From Columbine to the Invention of Fire, Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. I also have a YouTube channel where I share poems and excerpts from these books, mostly as YouTube shorts. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
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  6. #214: Two of the Best Poems You've Never Heard of (by William Cullen Bryant)
  7. #213: Van Gogh's Early Years
  8. #212: The Most Popular Story in Ancient India
  9. #211: Who Was William Cullen Bryant?
  10. #210: Memories & Legends of William Shakespeare

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