Something remarkable
Jan. 27th, 2019 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quoththeravynI'm not sure how to even approach this experience. Except to say it's remarkable.
There's this thing that started out being just a radio interview program, called OnBeing, which you can find online at onbeing.org, or, here in the US at least, probably on a public radio station near you. The host is a polymath, Krista Tippett, who interviews influential people, thinkers, wise people, about, well, to quote the title of her book, Being Wise. I find every interview fascinating. For example the episode for this week was with Glennon Doyle, of Momastery fame, and Abby Wambach, her wife, and oh incidentally an international soccer star. About life, activism, alcoholism, bulimia, recovery, parenting, you name it. It was fascinating.
Anyway. At the end of every episode, by way of credits, they say, "OnBeing is..." and then everybody involved speaks their name. It's an effective radio moment, hearing the variety of names, voices, the timbre of this identifying sound spoken in the voice of the person herself (or himself). It's very cool. And most of the voices are, well, the ordinary assortment of voices. And then, three-quarters of the way through the list, is "Lillian Rowe." Her voice is higher pitched than most everyone else's; she's making an effort, I think, not to let the pitch drop at the end...
And I know only two things about this person. One, she works for OnBeing, which is very cool. Two, the sound of her voice, pronouncing her name.
And somehow, it makes a happy place in every Sunday morning for me, just to hear that.
There's this thing that started out being just a radio interview program, called OnBeing, which you can find online at onbeing.org, or, here in the US at least, probably on a public radio station near you. The host is a polymath, Krista Tippett, who interviews influential people, thinkers, wise people, about, well, to quote the title of her book, Being Wise. I find every interview fascinating. For example the episode for this week was with Glennon Doyle, of Momastery fame, and Abby Wambach, her wife, and oh incidentally an international soccer star. About life, activism, alcoholism, bulimia, recovery, parenting, you name it. It was fascinating.
Anyway. At the end of every episode, by way of credits, they say, "OnBeing is..." and then everybody involved speaks their name. It's an effective radio moment, hearing the variety of names, voices, the timbre of this identifying sound spoken in the voice of the person herself (or himself). It's very cool. And most of the voices are, well, the ordinary assortment of voices. And then, three-quarters of the way through the list, is "Lillian Rowe." Her voice is higher pitched than most everyone else's; she's making an effort, I think, not to let the pitch drop at the end...
And I know only two things about this person. One, she works for OnBeing, which is very cool. Two, the sound of her voice, pronouncing her name.
And somehow, it makes a happy place in every Sunday morning for me, just to hear that.