Hello and welcome to the Ducks Never Waver Lunch Break. We’re just starting out in the land of selling on Etsy; join us (siblings Megan and Edwin) in our discussion of all things art, creating, and life. As your guides, we hope we can wet your curiosity and satiate your soul with interesting and beautiful ideas to ponder as you go back to work.So, come, dip your toes in the water with us, for Ducks Never Waver!Stay Quacky! Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DucksNeverWaver

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Book mentioned: https://a.co/d/irEEqFP

S2E9 "Why Children Should NOT Read Abridged Classics"

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We often relegate fairytales to children thinking that when we reach a certain agedness we no longer need them. If we do this, we deprive ourselves of respite and imagination, the wonderment of grace, and how to face mortality and the vanity of life.This week, your favorite dynamic duo explore the magic of the Cinderella story retold with emotional and beautiful depth in &#34;The Slipper and the Rose&#34;.They also accidently fall into the world of Stephen Lawhead&#39;s &#34;Song of Albion &#34; Trilogy, a perfect example of how the secondary world (or fairy land) and primary (real world) feed into each other and how the two support each other.More Fairy Tales: Grimm&#39;s Fairy Tales: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/On Re-Enchantment: https://firstthings.com/thinking-twice-about-re-enchantment/https://blog.ayjay.org/some-enchanted-evening/https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/10/awakening-moral-imagination-vigen-guroian-timeless.html?mc_cid=a94540758d&amp;mc_eid=0ced15dc4bhttps://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/tolkien-on-fairy-stories-argument-bradley-birzer.html?mc_cid=ecf758b3f9&amp;mc_eid=0ced15dc4bThe things discussed: Slipper and the Rose:https://a.co/d/0ceLv4tThe Paradise War (Book 1 Song of Albion Trilogy): https://a.co/d/2Yi899c

S2E8 "Slipper and the Rose and Why Adults Should Enjoy Fairytales"

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Craft is so much more than the actual skill and tools that are required to create a desired outcome. This is seen most clearly in the the craft of spinning. Myth, history, tales, and more a twisted up in every yard of yarn produced. Our dynamic duo explores these depths looking at such materials as &#34;The Odyssey&#34; and &#34;Sleeping Beauty&#34;. Surprisingly, the time space continuum didn&#39;t come up but we all know it&#39;s there, for when spinning, one is connected to time past in the present looking towards the future. More Quackiness:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

S2E7 "Spinning: Myth, History, Craft"

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Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight! What makes something funny, what is the difference between laughing and crying, what is the point of laughter? These are good questions! But they shan&#39;t be answered! Nay! Who can feign to know the deep dark mysteries of comedy? &#34;Dying is easy, comedy is hard&#34; -Edmund KeanRather, our favorite dynamic duo will bring you on a journey through their favorite comedies pulling apart comedic attributes so that you may be illuminated on just how difficult it is to be funny, on purpose. To be funny on purpose. Either that or to make you cry. I don&#39;t remember which...Some of the movies mentioned:Marx Brothers:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023969/Screwball: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1Mel Brooks: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/W.C. Fields:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022883/Woody Allen: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073312/Information about the lost Jerry Lewis movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33030466/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/

S2E6 "The Craft of Comedy"

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In this exciting episode our dynamic duo discuss their experience being homeschooled. Find out if they feed into the stereotype or maybe they&#39;ll say something unusual, which would feed into the stereotype. Looks like we&#39;re caught in a loop again...Get ready to be loopy and enjoy!&#34;My Divine Comedy&#34; by Missy Andrews: https://centerforlit.squarespace.com/mydivinecomedyOther quackyness:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

S2E5 "The Beauty of Homeschooling"

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Megan tried quilting! Check out this episode to learn more about the history, challenges, and controversies of quilting. YouTube video about making the quilt: https://youtu.be/9RhEmPULrDwLook at some quilts: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=quilts

S2E4 "Quilting: history, making, and more"

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&#34;Brevity is the soul of wit.&#34; This week our dynamic duo sets out to prove the bard wrong! A collection of topics spanning work to leisure and anything in between.Chisels: https://a.co/d/2yOLUyZUndaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose: https://a.co/d/2WvazecLord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: https://a.co/d/9VYEgix And https://a.co/d/1NFePL2

S2E3 "Quick Fire Quack: New tools, tv shows, books, etc."

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&#34;Ask not for whom the bells toll; it tolls for thee&#34;. The history of bells, a dissection of change ringing, inept bureaucracy (redundant, I know), the life of a church, Old Years, New Years, Floods, Easter, resurrection, and oh yeah, a disfigured body.Throw in a stolen emerald necklace and you have &#34;The Nine Tailors&#34; by Dorothy L. Sayers. A master wordsmith delving deep into the craft of campanology and sleuthing, Sayers brings new heights to the murder mystery. This week, our dynamic duo explores what makes this such a complex novel from one of the most dynamic authors.

S2E2 The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers

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We&#39;re baaaaaack! We hope you stick around for a fun season of quackery!Why, Winter? Thy frosty countenance is enough to try men. Why dost thou tary and blacken the earth with thy cloudiness?To change the time, Winter replied. With great contrast I provide rich bounty of death, to halt industry, to frustrate thy plans. To die, to sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...Shalt thy frozen visage forever blur mine eyes?Nothing lasts forever, but I have miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. More quackiness: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

S.2 Ep. 1 "What to do with Winter"

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&#34;Don&#39;t know where we&#39;re goin&#39;, but wherever we was wasn&#39;t it.&#34;We&#39;re back! Sort of... Catch up with your favorite dynamic duo to hear why they disappeared from the land of podcasts (hint: it&#39;s all Edwin&#39;s fault). Things were made and thoughts were thought, then they were talked about. What a time to be alive!This will be the last podcast for 2024. We are restructuring to have a recording season and then a posting season. But never fear, we will be back sooner than you think and better than ever!Stay Quacky!More Quackyness: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaverA podcast Edwin recommends: https://passionforcraft.com/

Ep. 80 "What We've Been Up To and Where We're Going"

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&#34;Simple&#34; is a word that seems easy to understand, basic, and well, simple. But when you get down to boiling the pudding you swiftly realize how complicated simple things are and vice versa. It is in this paradox our dynamic duo shall reside a while; trying simply to say that the simple things are complicated without reducing our existence to simplistic understandings. It really couldn&#39;t be more simple!

Ep. 79 "Simple"

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Structured as a prayer, &#34;Confessions&#34; by Augustine is a book that everyone should read. But why? Well, that&#39;s what the podcast is about, silly!If you want a more in depth look we recommend this lecture series from The Great Courses: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/st-augustines-confessionsRecommended translation: https://a.co/d/gsbp3Tw More fun stuff: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 78 "Confessions by Augustine"

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And we don&#39;t mean the slumbering kind, although we are in favor of that too. Especially Edwin. He&#39;s always sleeping.But he&#39;s not sleeping during this podcast! In fact, he&#39;s all fired up to talk about a plethora of topics in this Quick Fire Quack. Teamed up with the ever sprightly Megan, this dynamic duo will amaze you with their verbose verbiage. What kind of amazement is in store is for us to know and for you to find out... More fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 77 "Why You Should Dream"

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Whether you&#39;re a scientist guru claiming you have the key to a perfect life or you&#39;re someone trying said keys, everyone is an expert in self improvement. But not our dynamic duo! Listen to them frolicking about the idea of self betterment and rambling free associations that Megan insists are necessary.We don&#39;t promise any improvement, self or otherwise, but we hope you enjoy this week&#39;s episode! More fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 76 "Self Improvement"

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&#34;Watership Down&#34; by Richard Adams is a sweeping epic of leaving home and building an empire, leaders and warriors, and, well, rabbits!Our dynamic duo go off on an adventure of their own, following the journey of those motley rabbits. Parallel roads to &#34;The Aeneid&#34; and &#34;The Odyssey&#34; are hopped across, tyrannical totalitarian civilizations are brought low, and &#34;true heroes&#34; complete their character arc when death to life is symbolized. These are a few of the points discussed in this exciting episode!Get cozy in your warren and settle in for this great tale!Uncle Remus: Complete Tales (Brer Rabbit) https://a.co/d/e5BjA3rWatership Down: https://a.co/d/hMuIzIPMore fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 75 "Watership Down"

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What is philosophy? How do you know philosophy is philosophy and not something made up by some guy named Phil?Our dynamic duo offers up for your auditory amusement an awareness to the far reaching realms of philosophy. This may become a series, it may not, either way you should listen to this intro to philosophy!You might like this: https://a.co/d/aTRoYfgAnd this!https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 74 "An Intro to Philosophy"

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Calming yet infuriating, easy to do yet must be highly skilled, these are just a couple of the paradoxes (or as Megan likes to say: pair-of-docks) that makes the waters of fishing murky.Can Edwin (the most experienced fisherman of the dynamic duo, which isn&#39;t saying much) enlighten to the joys (and let downs) of casual fishing? Will Megan ever go fishing? Why is Edwin so annoying when playing the boardgame Clue? Find this out and so much more in this exciting episode!More fun things: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaverDon&#39;t have time (or the inclination) to go fishing? Click on these links. https://a.co/d/ddaBBR6https://a.co/d/1SFuBdm

Ep. 73 "Why Do People Like Fishing?"

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Urban homesteading, most valuable thing learned in school, and maintaining friendships (ick), are a few of the topics discussed in todays exciting episode!More fun: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 72 "Quick Fire Quack: April Edition"

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The book:https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310More fun stuff: https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 71 "Fahrenheit 451"

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A free flowing episode with highlights such as bunnies, toughness, and the problem with metaphors. More Fun:https://linktr.ee/ducksneverwaver

Ep. 70 "Endeavor to Persevere"

Hello and welcome to the Ducks Never Waver Lunch Break. We’re just starting out in the land of selling on Etsy; join us (siblings Megan and Edwin) in our discussion of all things art, creating, and life. As your guides, we hope we can wet your curiosity and satiate your soul with interesting and beautiful ideas to ponder as you go back to work.

So, come, dip your toes in the water with us, for Ducks Never Waver!

Stay Quacky!

Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DucksNeverWaver