Contemplative Hoops: Recent Episodes
Samuel Clevenger
Most weeks, I go to a local park at least one morning and shoot hoops by myself. It's nice, calming and meditative. Recently, I thought: maybe the sound of shooting hoops is calming for some people as well? So, with this people, I plan to post recordings of shooting hoops. Every now and then I will also post interviews with scholars who critically study sports such as basketball, but it will mostly be recordings of shooting hoops one morning.
The sounds of idling next to Lake Erie. Recorded on October 24, 2021 at Lakeside, Ohio.
The sounds of idling next to the Potomac River. Recorded at Widewater State Park in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was a cool, overcast October afternoon, a large group of ducks were floating in the river.
Standing and thinking next to Lake Erie and the beautiful Inscription Rock in Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscription_Rock_(Kelleys_Island,_Ohio)
Standing and thinking next to Stony Run, Baltimore, Maryland. It was a morning of drizzling rain, raindrops hitting the recorder.
Sitting and thinking next to the Anacostia River again, near Washington, D.C. It was a windy, sunny morning.
Standing and thinking next to Sligo Creek in Takoma Park, Maryland. I think the guitarist John Fahey wrote a song about this creek, called "Sligo River Blues".
Sitting and thinking next to Buddy Attick Lake in Greenbelt, Maryland. The lake was created by the federal greenbelt town program during FDR's "New Deal" Administration.