There’s a hill in Dickson City, PA that overlooks Scranton. At the top sits a Denny’s. Many years ago, my father and I were walking from the restaurant to our car, looking down on Scranton. I saw cars driving in every direction and asked, “Where are all those cars going, dad?”
“Oh,” he said, “That’s people living their lives. They’ve all got destinations to get to, people to meet, things to do. They’re just going about their day.”
Since then I’ve been fascinated with people’s stories. Even today when I’m stuck in traffic, I think about the people in the other cars. Are they going to visit someone who’s dying of cancer? Are they off to pick up eggs and milk? Is there someone waiting for them at the airport? Did they just get the best news of their life? Where are they going?
Then I’ll think of why I’m in the car at that moment and how important my life’s events seem until I realize that I’m only a single line on a single page of the enormous tome of human existence.
With this podcast, I’ll explore those stories. Each episode will feature a conversaiton with one person I admire, respect, know or want to know, edited down to the best 20 minutes (I once heard that a conversation experiences a natural pause at the 20 minute mark, so that seemed a logical place to end). Here is episode 1: Jeannine Luby. Enjoy.