Are you the anchor or the kite? Lee and Val recover from their days by venting a little, arguing about cold plunges, and telling dog stories. They read debate-themed haikus and somehow wind up discussing the American Girl series for awhile. Val tells a story about an early fall flower: the zinnia, which is also the baby name of the week! Lee had to buy a new water heater. RIP her back.
SHOW NOTES:
The author of the Addy books was Connie Porter. The article Val referred to was a fascinating, thorough piece in Slate about the decisions that went into the creation of the Addy story and doll, including her hair: The Making of An American Girl Doll by Aisha Harris.
From the American Girl wiki:
Josefina Montoya is a Mexican girl living on a rancho (ranch settlement) fifteen miles away from Santa Fe in 1824, during the time when the territory was under Mexican rule, only a few years after Mexican independence from Spanish colonialism.
Kaya is a Native American/Indigenous girl of the Nimíipuu, or Nez Perce tribe. Her stories take place in the 1760s and are set prior to permanent settlement of the Pacific Northwest by white European-Americans.
Here’s a bit more about how the first zinnias in space were grown.
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Sound attribution credits:
Theme song: Snabba Ladda, Snappy beat, Cheerful feeling! by kjartan_abel – https://freesound.org/s/632406/ -- License: Attribution 4.0.
Haiku segment intro: Strange wind chimes duo! — Debussy Bells, bamboo by Philip_Goddard -- https://freesound.org/s/686153/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0.
Haiku background: bell-bowl G-ish.wav by Squidocto -- https://freesound.org/s/255762/ -- License: Creative Commons 0.
Plant story intro: Golvuna by kjartan_abel -- https://freesound.org/s/610679/ -- License: Attribution 4.0.
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