This Wild Side column comes to you from Kent, England, where I’ve been sampling the local wildlife for the past week or so.

In the late Nineties, I heard about the Abraham teachings, a spiritual entity channeled through a woman named Esther Hicks.

A resonant voice sings “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from the musical “Oklahoma” at the start of Spike Lee’s neo-noir crime thriller “Highest 2 Lowest,” showing through Labor Day at the Martha’s ...