Bedtime Story

In #stuffthatwarmsandbreaksyourheart: A local rescue has a program called Book Buddies where kids read to sheltered cats to sooth them.

This Melancholy Life

There is something disheartening about the snappy happiness of a lot of syndicated American podcasts. It can make you feel really lonely.

And you wonder - who are they doing it for? A listener is usually listening alone, in a bubble of quiet, with all receptors for subtle emotions stretched wide...

That's why this personal essay is just perfect. It sounds as if it's made for a tiny audience, not even of one, more private than that. Something as personal as a diary. It doesn't have a strong structure, just like your brain doesn't. And just like your brain it takes leaps of free association, from one thought to the next. Some of them lonely, some happy, some pensive. Some just matter-of-factly.

It's like being inside someone else's mind, just for a bit. I could listen to this stuff all day.

Thank you Jennifer Deer.

* Listen to Sampson here.