Our common nature is a musical journey with Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.

We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music, all to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.

Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.

It's the splendid table from APM American Public Media.

Thank you. A.m. American Public Media. I'm Lynne Rosett O'Casper. You know, my mother never understood my stove.

I used to believe it was because she didn't understand me, and of course I was dead wrong about that.

You see, this is my dream stove. It's a hulking commercial range.

Well, she wrestled that monster into submission all 89 years, and 5'3 of that woman could cook.

But she never failed to tell me how I'd been shortchanged. How could I pay that much money

for a stove with no self-cleaning, no light in the oven, and worst of all, no clock? Well, we came to

piece over the stove and a lot more. So today, it's all about moms, their food, and much more

this hour on the Splendid Table.

This week's Splendid Table is a repeat of an earlier broadcast.

This is the Splendid Table from APM American Public Media.

It's the show about life's appetites. I'm Lynn Rossetto, Casper. You know,

any experience, mom is going to tell you that a kid's personality is really the luck of the draw.

And maybe this is because food is one of the only areas that a kid can control in their adult-run

world. But whatever the backdrop, the family dinner table is a power base.

It's the way a little kid tells the world and his mom who he is.

Well, writer and mother Emily Franklin has some firsthand experience in this.

Music in this.

Let me state right off that I'm not one of those parents who believes for children to be flawless.

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