Apr 09, 2008

Get to Know You Better

After a year of planning, two of my close friends quit their jobs last month to travel the country in search of a new home city — an undertaking that strikes me as remarkably brave, though completely in character.

Maybe you have friends like these; tirelessly curious, fearless, and fascinated by the aspects of everyday life. Me, I ride the train to work and bury my head in a book. These two look at the faces around them and see stories.

Now they’re telling these stories. Or, more accurately, they’re letting us listen in through a podcast featuring the people they meet along the way.

There’s nothing earth-shattering in Potluck Podcast, just quiet, enjoyable peeks into the lives of the people we pass on the street every day.

If you’ve got five minutes in your day, you could do a lot worse than listening to an episode or two. If you’ve got more time on your hands, you might consider dropping them a note – odds are they might be in your town, and I’m sure they’d like to meet you.

Nicola Johnson

Think they’ll come to Muncie? It’s interesting….
http://www.drewmyler.com/ Drew

Home of Garfield the cat and Dave Letterman’s alma mater? How could they refuse?
Katie

Strange, I thought that you were in that category of uprooting and moving to a new home city. Maybe not traversing the country to do it, but wanderlust is in your blood too.
Mom

I’m not sure I see a big difference between “seeing” stories and “reading” them, except that with a book you can always reread the events. I vote for the book every time. Books help you measure your life. Rereading something after several years lets you see how much you’ve grown intellectually, spiritually, socially.
http://www.evolvingpage.com Drew

I don’t disagree with your take on the written word, madre, but this podcast strikes me as a journalistic effort rather than a literary one. I think the intention is not to tell a story, but to let someone’s individual story tell itself, in their own words and voice.