Now Arriving!: Recent Episodes
M. Carteret
This podcast has a new name as it morphs from letters the host shares during covid lockdown to stories from travel episodes. The title "Now Arriving!" points to the wide-eyed and slightly off balance feeling a traveler has when reaching a new destination. The host wonders: "Is it possible to learn to see our everyday lives with the same anticipation for new experience? After all, we are actually arriving every single moment. Boredom, on the other hand, is never arriving. It is a slow crawling destination fixation.
The long road trip through Croatia ends with a loud noise a driver never ever wants to hear. Luckily it sounded worse than it was.
The host checks into her hotel - sharing a covid-style check-in with listeners. It's a bit "involved" but the room is worth it!
The host checks in along the way while traveling throughout Croatia during the 2020 pandemic and US election.
2020 only gets more bizarre as temperatures plummet from the 90s to the twenties around Labor Day weekend in Colorado. The host struggles to save her flower garden and her mood.
The host contemplates the one job where she truly thrived and how facing unemployment during Covid-19 might be an opportunity to find work she loves again..
The host decides there is no better place to grapple with time that an old town cemetery.
I lost a whole day this week - Thursday went MIA - but in this letter "Lucy" writes to "Ethel" and discovers a pandemic can teach a person about simple pleasures....like breathing.
In the process of trying to control life so that I can create the safe future I desire, I lose much of my life in the present.. This is a conversation about knowing how and why we do this and how to STOP.
The host has a heart-to-heart with Mondays about why she dreads them and what to do about it.
This is a reading of a letter to a friend who flew today for the first time since the pandemic started. She's headed to Tennessee to take care of her 95-year-old father for two months. I know the whole trip, starting with the flight, won't be easy easy. I wanted her to be able to hear the Colorado aspen trees when she is far from her cabin in the woods where she retreats from the over-busy world as often as she can. I'm sending her that wonderful sound.