Episode 14 – Happy (in moderation)
Things we talk about in this episode:
Opening Music:
'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]
Closing Music:
'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]
Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org
Suzanne says hello
“George...don’t do that” - the indomitable Joyce Grenfel - Nursery School Sketches - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBFA_AJvrp4
Fourteen doesn’t work
Kate is totally clear
The discussion starts with Joy (the rune Wunjo/Wynn)
What do Anakin Skywalker, Harry Potter, Marcus Aurelius, and Minions have in common?
Kate tries to work it out…
Kate thinks on the mystery of bananas
Happiness as a heathen
“To shush the noisy...” Conan the Librarian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Librarian
The Rune Poems
Having just enough
The Minions enter stage left – the concept of living in the moment (from Despicable Me (2010) Despicable Me 2 (2013) and Minions (2015))
Kate is not sorry
Jedi – living in the present
Jedi minions…
Druids and Buddhists
Marcus Aurelius (https://dailystoic.com/marcus-aurelius/) and a legion of Roman minion Jedi…
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Happiness in balance – the balance of need and want
The difference between need and want is wish
The art of correct wishing
(Examples from fairy tales – See Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 750A ‘Foolish Wishes’ - http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=atu . The Aarne-Thompson scale is a way of classifying folk tales by trope. Head here for some examples of this type: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0750a.html)
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (film 2001, book 1997 (twenty years?!? when did that happen?))
Anakin Skywalker – Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The Jedi minions return
Dragon sickness and need – from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (novel 1937, film trilogy 2012, 2013, 2014)
Connections in popular culture – things in moderation
How to find us online
Happy take one Happy take two (with graceful apologies to Pharrell Williams...)
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