1. And every year, public radio listeners have come to expect the Gisselbecks’ unusual premium donations during MTPR’s annual Spring Pledge Week.

    Usually, the couple will give goats to people who donate a certain amount of cash to the fundraiser – this year, it will be three, Evelyn said – but they often also provide goat mulch, goat compost, goat cheese, goat jerky and goat milk.

    — Best Pledge Premium ever: goats.

  2. Christoph Niemann illustrates Terry’s conversation with Maurice Sendak. I cried at my desk when this conversation was taped. I put my head down on my computer and cried when it aired. In fact, this makes me cry every single time I listen to it. It’s one of the best pieces of radio I’ve ever heard. And it’s a fantastic way to reflect on this year, and into the next. I often repeat the last lines to myself: Live your life, live your life, live your life.

    Christoph Niemann illustrates Terry’s conversation with Maurice Sendak. I cried at my desk when this conversation was taped. I put my head down on my computer and cried when it aired. In fact, this makes me cry every single time I listen to it.

    It’s one of the best pieces of radio I’ve ever heard. And it’s a fantastic way to reflect on this year, and into the next. I often repeat the last lines to myself:

    Live your life, live your life, live your life.

  3. Kind World, an online experiment at WBUR in Boston, celebrates the effect random acts of kindness can have on others. Whether it’s paying the toll for the person behind you, galvanizing a community to support a family in crisis, or paying $1 to buy a book for a little girl — these are the stories of ordinary people turning ordinary circumstances into extraordinary memories. (via NPR)

    Kind World, an online experiment at WBUR in Boston, celebrates the effect random acts of kindness can have on others. Whether it’s paying the toll for the person behind you, galvanizing a community to support a family in crisis, or paying $1 to buy a book for a little girl — these are the stories of ordinary people turning ordinary circumstances into extraordinary memories. (via NPR)

  4. jcstearns: “For all of public radio’s successes, the part of our mission we’ve always neglected the most is innovation. Our biggest shows —All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, Fresh Air, A Prairie Home Companion — are decades old. The average age of our listeners keeps creeping upward. At 53, I am one of the younger public radio stars. My show has been on the air 17 years. We need to make space for new shows, new talent, new ideas. That’s our mission, and ultimately, it’ll be good business, too, to have exciting new shows bring in new audiences.” SOURCE: http://current.org/radio/radio1212glass-on-cartalk-reruns.html

    jcstearns:

    “For all of public radio’s successes, the part of our mission we’ve always neglected the most is innovation. Our biggest shows —All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, Fresh Air, A Prairie Home Companion — are decades old. The average age of our listeners keeps creeping upward. At 53, I am one of the younger public radio stars. My show has been on the air 17 years.

    We need to make space for new shows, new talent, new ideas. That’s our mission, and ultimately, it’ll be good business, too, to have exciting new shows bring in new audiences.”

    SOURCE: http://current.org/radio/radio1212glass-on-cartalk-reruns.html