Trading Noise for Sound E259 05/20/2026
We are using these huge, great words for the smallest things, and it’s creating this auditory saturation. Just a constant noise that doesn’t mean anything anymore.
We are using these huge, great words for the smallest things, and it’s creating this auditory saturation. Just a constant noise that doesn’t mean anything anymore.
‘Il dolce far niente.’ And it means ‘the sweetness of doing nothing.’ And I refer to it as doing nothing—not being lazy, just being in the moment, mindful in solitude.
I found my answer in my recent trip to Southern Italy. And it’s not just the stuff that you easily can see on a postcard. Southern Italy is where you want to be.,
Looking back, about being fired from that volunteer job was the greatest gift I could have received. It forced me to create a home. A home for the radio station, a home for my passion, and a home for “East to West”
And I truly believe that having more than one version of the truth, the one that you believe in, is really dividing our nation and divide us as a society.
Because then there is the presence. That’s got nothing to do with the year you were born. Presence is about having the energy to listen to a new sound, new music, new songs, to start a new conversation,