The Folium Diary
Episodes
Smoke 😺 Signal
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Smoke 😺 Signal: A Daisy Drop SpecialI was in the kitchen reading this article to Linda when Smoke jumped in my lap and made it known in no uncertai...
Daisy ♓ Drop
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
🍄 A mystery laid to rest 🕊️ 🥑 A new adventure begins 🛫Support the showNEXT DAISY ♓ DROP • 3/15/26
Daisy ♒ Drop
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
...CONTINUED FROM LAST EPISODECherie said the key to the lost room is where I would be sure to "step on it". At her birthday party, in the s...
Daisy ♑ Drop
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
WELCOME TO DAISY DROPSWritten, recorded (on a zoom call with Mom), and edited (with difficulty) by Daisy - that's me! Yes, there may be a little ...
Folium Status Report
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Next Status Report: July 15th, 2026All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances And on...
FAQ: Folium Answers Questions
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hi Mom!New Season Starts Thursday
Contest Results
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our winners are:Alex in MichiganColin, of North YorkshireHeather in Northern CaliforniaJaidyn, from British ColumbiaJain in Denham, UKKathryn, from Bo...
Contest Closed
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The contest and question period are now closed, and Fan Mail is disabled. Please tune in Sunday night for the results, and thank you for your particip...
Favorite Page
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's your favorite page in the Diary?Folium Fan MailThe Folium Sock Contest runs from January 2nd to the 9th. You don't have to have finis...
AFQ: Ask Folium Questions
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Folium CEO would like to remind listeners they can submit questions about the Folium this week via Fan Mail, whether you are entering the contest ...
Last Warning
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Folium Fan MailThe Folium Sock Contest runs from January 2nd to the 9th. You don't have to have finished listening to the whole show to enter, bu...
Contest Update
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hello. We hope you are enjoying the contest. We received a correct answer that did not include an email address, so we have no way to contact that per...
Contest Open
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Folium Sock Contest. The prizes are $50 digital gift certificates to The Athletic Community, home of the famous PDX carpet sock (as wor...
Apology
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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DJ Daisy
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
DJ Daisy spins the Folium's favorite 78'sShirley Temple • Hey, What Did The Blue Jay Say?Ada Falcon • La Ultima Copa*Young Crooners • ...
Epilogue
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you for listening!Thanks Isabella, Samantha, and Stephen 🏆🏆🏆Thanks to the Pacific Northwest for inspiration 🍄🍄Thanks to Goldwave,...
Page 100
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This ends the Folium Diary 🍃(Sorry for posting so late! Raff kept texting with questions about our trip)[I wouldn't have so many questions if ...
Lucky Number 🐎
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cherie, thank you for letting me make my first (and probably last) podcast episode!Seven Sevens:Feast of the Seven FishesLife in Seven Songs podcastSe...
Page 99
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
InterviewProtocol has been completely scuttled. This episode was supposed to be Dispatch 7, and the interview with Professor B was supposed be yesterd...
Page 98
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zoom CallJane's wearing the Wildfang/Peanuts shirt Daisy gave her. Lucy is yelling at Charlie Brown, "After I got to be President, it would ...
Page 97
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dispatch 6**Every time I open the file it's longer than before - now it's over 22,200 pages! So I copied some interesting 'Foliumisms&a...
Page 96
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dispatch 5"trust your gut"
Page 95
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dispatches 3 & 4(Smoke was admirably tight-lipped about the numerous breaches of protocol that took place in the family's absence. I'm s...
Page 94
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This page is dedicated to the memory of Fred Silver - musician, composer, lyricist, author, and vocal coach. He wrote seven musicals and over a hundre...
Happy Holidays
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Folium would like to thank Todd Parker and the Witches. Visit their bandcamp for s'more great music 🏕️Happy Holidays!
Page 93
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dispatch 2(Smoke has been promoted to Co-Host for the next few episodes. She accepted the position once she realized it meant increased chin scratches...
Page 92
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dispatch 1
Page 91
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy to hear Raff and Ares made up - those two are high-maintenance!
Folium Footnote 📣
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ARES ALERT 🙉 ADJUST VOLUME 🔊🔉🔈"He had arrived in the city that morning on a Greyhound bus and would be leaving the same way..."F...
Page 90
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ChakrasCrown: WhiteThird Eye: IndigoThroat: BlueHeart: GreenSolar Plexus: YellowSacral: OrangeRoot: RedChakra means “wheel” and refers to ener...
Page 89
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last night's party ended just like this!(w/o Matthew Broderick, but Ferris was there in spirit)
Folium Footnote
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
L. A. Meyer was the author of the Bloody Jack series, which chronicles the exploits of an impetuous heroine who fought her way up from the squalid str...
Page 88
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Folium Books of the WeekThe Girl From Spaceship Earth: Surf's Up!Valuing Life: Rules and Regulations ruleThe Hard Crowd: A writer may be in t...
Page 87
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I Quit (the book not the show!)
Page 86
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all have our own ways of letting off steam 🏁
Page 85
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Cherie's BirthdayYesterday's musical coda was by the wonderful Alyssandra Nighswonger 🏹Ps. I asked Pax if we could keep fan mail ...
Page 84
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Cherie's BirthdayThank you all for the lovely birthday messages!Pax just sprung that on me - I had no idea. I really appreciate each and ...
It's Cherie's Birthday
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Cherie's BirthdayHello again, this is Pax.If you would like to send Miss Hazzard birthday wishes, we have enabled Fan Mail at The Folium ...
Page 83
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Cherie's BirthdayChoose Your Leaders WiselyTo be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is ...
Page 82
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Giving my voice (and you 😉) the night off. Instead, please enjoy this audio of Octavia Butler at a panel discussion at UCLA in 2002.FYI, this book ...
Page 81
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I do my best work behind the scenes 🎭
Page 80
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the ladies room of the Growler Garage 🧻(Had to edit out some juicy gossip ✂️ People I don't know dishing on other people I don&a...
Page 79
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We are born, not with purpose, but with potential"
Page 78
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aikido is The Art of Peace 🕊️
Page 77
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Parables can be understood only from within"- James R. Edwards "Frankenstein is a parable for the rise and fall of artificial intelli...
Page 76
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five Postulates of a Spiritual Vision for the InternetIn the Virtual World, There Is Only The PresentTo Be ON the Internet Is Not To Be OF the Interne...
Page 75
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rats! Mispronounced Ffynnon - again. I really need a mnemonic... How about, 'Huckleberry Finn, under the moonlit sky' - Finn-un - got it! ....
Page 74
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🌼 A Daisy a Day Drives the Doldrums Away 😊
Page 73
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can't force polyfusion“Twenty-five hundred years of rational culture are in the process of dissolution. Age-old habits of conceptualization...
Page 72
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth - we are all crew🌐 Like-minded Visionaries 🍁
Page 71
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Your faith is proclaimed all over the world”(Well that was interesting! Pax is nice, and Ares sounds just like I imagined 🙉)
Folium Footnote
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Amelia Project is a secret agency that offers a very special service: Faking its clients' deaths and bringing them back with a new iden...
Page 70
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
YES! ✊🏻 Thanks, Ares 🦄I figured it was time to update my profile. I'm wearing my Wildfang tee from Daisy and holding a Peanuts pin Mom ga...
Page 69
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
💐 Home Sweet Lodge! So nice to come back to a sparkling clean room (not a single cruffin crumb!) and fresh flowers. Thank you, Sam 😊🙉 Apologi...
Page 68
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🌼This episode brought to you by DoppelDäisy 🌼Doppelgänger - poem by James LindonDoppelgänger - music by LeaF 🔊
Page 67
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"our world is confusing...but not incomprehensible"
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28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🦃 Doppeltürkeys 🦃Thank you for listening!Extra Credit for Informatics Addicts:📖 Match the quotes to their book 📖Voices by ElevenLabs
Page 65
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"...it's not just individuals who are being copied, but the entirety of human existence..."
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26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doppelgängers in the news!DoppelspïderMeet Your MïrrorDoppelgïnger
Page 63
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Any adventure worth having begins with an ample supply of clean socks 🧦🧦🧦Let's Roll!
Page 62
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"where else could you get drama like this?" 🎭(Also, it's Sagittarius Season! ♐ I really enjoyed my week pondering the mystical m...
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23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"sometimes you just want to eat dinner without knowing how the tofu is made"
Page 60
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DON'T LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE.REALLY, DO NOT LISTEN TO IT!🔇🙉🔇 STOP!! 🔇🙉🔇...(This has been an experiment in 'reverse psyc...
Page 59
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🐏🐂👯🦀 What's🦁🤍⚖️🦂 Your🏹🐐🌊🐟 Sign?
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20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks Raff 🍕🍕🤌🏻Thanks Daisy 🌲🤕😘
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19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rhymes with Re•al•it•yAfternoon TeaBanana TreeCarmel-By-The-SeaDoctor's DegreeEgyptian PeaFiddledeedeeVitamin G
Page 56
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
♈♉♊♋ASTROLOGY♌♍♎♏IS♐♑♒♓REAL(Special Thanks to Laural Virtues Wauters for Infinity Mandala)
Page 55
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Seven Steps to HealingGrieveApologizeListenRelateRepresentInvestRepair“If we are going to heal, let it be glorious”
Page 54
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today was a Hot Mess 🥪🍺(btw, it's To Rome With Love 🎙️🚿)
Diary Outtake
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is why I don't go down to Doc's until after editing! 😮💨Reciprocity is an intriguing (if vocally vexatious) concept:"...r...
Page 53
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Indigenous people believe they belong to the land, non-Indigenous people believe the land belongs to them, and the State believes the land and the ...
Page 52
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raff doesn't want pictures of the pagoda posted until it's finished, so here's a lovely pagoda in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'd been played like a violin 🎻...but I liked it 🍝🍝(🎃next year for sure! 🎃)
Page 50
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You don’t choose the medicine - it chooses you"
Page 49
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🤠 Howdy Neighbor! The Folium celebrates World Science Day for Peace by welcoming our listeners from Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Brazil...
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10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house – Audre Lorde
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09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The State isn’t just a barrier to the world we want – it’s what we have instead"
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08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"...Anarchism reflects a growing disillusionment with the State..."
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07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guardare la Café Racer - fastest 'draw' in Forest Grove ☕☕(I was trying not to ask if Frank made, uhhh, amorous advances towards Sultá...
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06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
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05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"If not now, when?"
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04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Day after day, day after day, we stuck, nor breath nor motionAs idle as a painted ship, upon a painted oceanAn article about the doldrums from a scien...
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03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let one being be selected as the refuse of their kind, and you impose upon them the irresistible obligations of malevolence and selfishness.Treat a pe...
Page 40
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Special Guest VlP 🎭
Page 39
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let me be Frank...Have a Happy Halloween!
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31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"...events which materially influence our destinies are often caused by trivial occurrences..."👻If you got it, haunt it👻
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30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"He is both repelled and impressed by human connections, but never finds someone to empathize with his own situation. He is the classic ‘outsid...
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29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ci prendiamo un caffè? ☕☕
Page 35
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you Sneha Jaiswal! (the 'mysterious messenger' was Daisy, who had to run off to her next assignment - the Folium is keeping her hoppi...
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27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second trimester of the Folium Diary!
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26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"...take only memories, leave only footsteps...." 👣
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25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"...catch the wave of life’s intensities and ride it, exposing the boundaries as we transgress them"🏄🏼♀️
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24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ffynnon (Welsh, pronounced FIN-un) means 'source,' or 'spring' Got it!(I really needed a break from nomadic nebulosity. Thank you...
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23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I may use a lot of technology, but I don't believe I've become technology.Ps. Kids, a friendly reminder: Pick up all of your LEGO's whe...
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22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"capitalism functions as the great nomad"Are we having fun yet?
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21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"this weeks assignment has an elevated lexile level intended to induce cognitive challenges, which may result in mild neurological distress [aka ...
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20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Do you believe everything you hear? Well, you shouldn't"Music by the wonderful Christine Lavin - believe it!Hot really hot add a littl...
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19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The Vincent Black Shadow attracted fervent admirers. Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote about this magnificent machine, adding to its allure"...
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18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The abolitionist ideology is based on economic and social justice for all, concern for all victims, and reconciliation within a caring community...
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17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Every age has had its hopes...hopes that look to something beyond the life of the age itself...hopes that try to pierce into the future"(Th...