Unknown Friends
(Posting this from the Seattle airport, which finally has free wi-fi!)
Have you ever had unknown friends? People you’ve met each day, people you’ve laughed with & sighed with, but whom you have never said a word to? One of the things I cherish about my time in Seattle that I enjoy re-living each time I visit is the 8:45 – 9:05 drive to work, listening to Kirsten Kendrick, Dick Stein & Laxmi Singh on 88.5 NPR and All that Jazz. Like the best of friends, you count on them being there every day, you worry if they don’t show up some day & you just like listening to them.
My favorite show of course is the 2 minutes of “Bird Note” from 8:58 – 9:00 am, the tune for the show being something that Kanchuki & I liked trying to copy out loud. We would both then listen with rapt attention to the show and then talk about how it was “Not so good today” or “I didn’t know that”!
I still remember when I moved back to India, I had made a list of dreams for my move back – and on top of that list was to start a public radio channel like NPR, a dream still unfulfilled.
