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Hello all. Here's a little sample of the show I'm trying ot make with YOU this Thanksgiving...

This is me imploring YOU to make some recordings this year about your Thanksgiving.

Vaughn Hood was an 118-pound barber in his late teens when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam, and in Vaughn’s war, most men didn’t survive their first three month tour. I met Vaughn through my sister. He was her hairdresser in St. Johnsbury, and he mentioned his time in Vietnam while he was cutting her hair. They didn't talk much about it, but she recommended him to me. We sat down in the back of his salon one day and I turned my recorder on, and we had one of the most remarkable conversations I've had in my life.

My friend Jesse had a birthday party. I attended but spent the entire time lying down upstairs in the guest room. I asked people who attended the party to send me voice memos about the party. This is a show comprised of these recordings. And whales. Happy birthday Jesse.

People often assume the Joslyn House is a nursing home, probably because a lot of old people live there. But it’s not a nursing home. It’s not assisted living. There’s no anonymous art on the wall. It’s a house. It’s a a place where up to twenty older people live independently together…in a huge, elegant house furnished with their own things. It is a place where you don’t have to worry about cooking, where if you’re lonely at night there‘s someone to talk to, or sit with. In other words, a civilized, safe place where love is evident.