Mohammad flew to London from Kuwait while I happened to be there too, so we met in person for the first time and had coffee together. I asked if he likes to travel ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“It is only when you meet someone from a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.”
Eliska realized her dream of living in the mountains year after year, and the result is one of the best Airbnb locales in the world. I asked what effect meeting so many fascinating travelers has had on her ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“The good host is not merely polite to the guest—the good host assumes that the guest has stories to tell.”
Onur had a lot to say about his appearance that I lost when I deleted the first part of our conversation in another "slight" episode. I asked why he came to Belize ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Now I must bore you with certain abstract things, but I hope you will listen patiently to them.”
Torleif is a self-proclaimed Viking. I asked what he thought of the food in Thailand in another "slight" episode ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“I am all the people I have met.”
Camiseta plays accordion in Buenos Aires every weekend. This is the first of a series of "slight" episodes, encounters I recorded that may not warrant a full treatment but deserve to be heard nonetheless—or seen in this case. Click the link below to watch a video version of Camiseta with subtitles on our Facebook page. I asked whether he travels a lot ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Globalization has a way of tinting its holdouts in a romantic glow.”
Flic had nowhere to sleep when a sandstorm overtook her in Bethlehem. I asked what it was like living in China ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“It is required of [everyone] that the spirit within them should walk abroad among [their] fellow [people], and travel far and wide.”
Lhamo runs Momo Tibetan Dumplings Corner in Brussels with a particularly keen ethical conscience. I asked what it felt like the first time she visited her homeland ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Every exile lasts too long.”
Carina hosts Easy German on Youtube, but that's actually only a small part of her and her husband Janusz's larger story. I asked whether the majority of Germans felt remorse after World War II ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“The pathway leading to their homes was not clear.”
Travis told a story at the foot of Machu Picchu that has stayed with me ever since. I had asked whether being a soldier in Iraq changed him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“We are edged with mist. We make insubstantial territories.”
Larry's life changed when he took his very first hike into the paradise at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in his fifties. I asked what prompted that fateful trip ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“Hope is like a path in the countryside. At first there’s nothing, but as people walk that way, a path appears.”
Gloria longed to visit Peru and climb Machu Picchu, like so many of us. I asked what happened when she got to Cusco ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“One is drawn irresistibly onward by ever-recurring surprises through a deep, winding gorge, turning and twisting past overhanging cliffs of incredible heights.”
Tony rode freight trains for nine years, picking up a wife, a son, and a dog along the way. I met him and his dog, Pig, on a Greyhound bus ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Wisdom listens.”
Kathy oversees the English Language Academy at DePaul University, where international students transition into a new culture and a second or third or fourth language. I asked her to come tell us how their stories have changed her at our very first live show at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Special thanks to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum too.
“Medicine is the meaningful work found in the mutual exchange between people.”
Anne moved from Indonesia to South Korea to Chicago, where we sat down with her in front a live audience at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to discuss a very visible change that travel caused in her ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Distilling is beautiful.”
Mike left the U.S. with his wife and kids to learn Spanish and build a church in Spain. I asked which beliefs survived the journey and which didn't ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“One of you spoke words of warm consolation for my traveling thousands of miles of sea over such a long period to come to your country.”
Jay has so many stories I didn't know where to begin. A pilgrimage in Japan. A pilgrimage in Spain. A cathedral in France. A temple in Korea. I asked how these discoveries have changed him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Walked all day and the next day. The road straight, grey, dusty, and trafficless.”
On Sunday, October 1 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, we'll gather our friends and listeners at the Hull-House Dining Hall in downtown Chicago to record our first live episode! Special guest Kathy Larson will share stories of international students' and her own cross-cultural encounters from DePaul University's English Language Academy and beyond. If you're interested in bringing a snack, let me know.
"The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago. It is easily reached by public transportation using the UIC Halsted stop on the Blue Line or the Halsted Bus (#8), or via the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) and the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90). Parking is available at Halsted and Taylor Street garage.
"Parking is available at Halsted and Taylor Street garage across the street for $4.50 for up to 30 min. to $13.00 for all day, depending upon day of the week, time of day, and length of stay. Visit the UIC Parking Services website for more details."
Hope to see you there!
Daniel took me to the cafe in Buenos Aires where Borges used to read stories to his mother. I asked what it was like to immigrate to the US and then back to Argentina again, and how he ended up in Sicily along the way ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“The fox makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.”
Liz sat down with me on the steps of Oslo Sentralstasjon before departing further north to the Svalbard archipelago to look for polar bears. I asked what it's like being a diplomat from New Zealand ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente.”
Cafemin is a way station in Mexico City on the migrant route from Latin America to the US. I asked the director how people change when they rest there ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“I feel always below the grace of their behavior the instinctive, primeval hatred of the stranger.”
