Jo may not have been as prepared as she needed to be when she visited the U.S. I asked her to describe the shipwreck where we met ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musicians, Dana Boulé. "The more people I meet, the happier I become." Samuel Beckett
William makes props for the new Star Wars films at Pinewood Studios in London. We met on the Inca Trail in Peru. I asked how places like Machu Picchu and Sayaqmarka shape his work ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musicians, Dana Boulé and Grupo Sonkoy. Follow The Observer Effect Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theobservereffect/ "On est seul aussi chez les hommes." —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Henry tried three times to cross the border into the U.S., a long journey from his home in Honduras. He has been a translator for Mission Lazarus since coming back. I asked why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit Missionlazarus.org. "Blessed are those in whose hearts are roads." —Psalm 84:5
Meghan had an epiphany in Mexico. I asked whether it’s possible to bring her insight back into settled life ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Consider donating to Westin's Fund, a charity that covers the costs for grieving parents related to miscarriages and stillbirths: http://www.westinsfund.org/ "Les soins accordés au malade, l’accueil offert au proscrit, le pardon même ne valent que grâce au sourire qui éclaire la fête. Nous nous...
Wade Goddard established a museum for war photography that you must visit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, War Photo Limited. He came to Yugoslavia in the 90s. I asked what it was like to travel in a country that no longer exists ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit War Photo Limited: www.warphotoltd.com. "Is there a time for keeping your distance?" —U2
Z spent some time traveling in a band, so naturally, I asked whether that changed him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Consider donating to Westin's Fund, a charity that covers the costs for grieving parents related to miscarriages and stillbirths. www.westinsfund.org "Are you not moved, when the sway of earth shakes like a thing unfirm?" —Shakespeare
Martin Luther King, Jr. moved to Chicago in 1966 to try to end slums. I did not know until a few years ago, so I went to the spot where he lived and asked Trevor Riley, the community organizer in charge of the MLK Fair Housing Exhibit Center at the MLK Legacy Apartments in North Lawndale to tell the story of that campaign ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit the MLK Fair Housing Exhibit Center: https://www.facebook.com/LawndaleCDC...
President Obama visited his ancestral village to learn about where his family came from. I asked a local there to tell me what that day was like ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Thanks to the musician Dana Boulé.
The Keats-Shelley House in Rome overlooks the Spanish Steps where the great English poet John Keats lived his final days. I asked its director, Dr. Giuseppe Albano, what moved Keats ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit www.keats-shelley-house.org. Listen to Eltaj's story of visiting there in Episode 92: The Wave and Sea. "Who reads into distances reads beyond us." —Seamus Heaney
Ernest Hemingway lived in Chicago, Italy, Kansas City, Paris, Toronto, Arkansas, Spain, Cuba, Florida, and finally, Idaho. I asked Nancy Sindelar, whose recent book Influencing Hemingway traces how these places and other factors might have shaped his writing, what moved him to travel so much ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. You can find Nancy Sindelar's Influencing Hemingway: People and Places that Shaped His Life and Work on Amazon. Or you can visit her site: nancysindelar.c...
Gabriel García Márquez began his writing career in Cartagena, Colombia, but it took him all over the world. I asked a guide there, Duran Duran, to tell me what exactly happened during his exile in Mexico City that made Márquez sequester himself to write his great book One Hundred Years of Solitude ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to Duran Duran for so meticulously researching Márquez's life and literature to make the tour so satisfying. And special thanks to th...
James Joyce never lived in Dublin again once he left yet poured all he knew of the city into his masterpiece Ulysses. I asked the Friends of the Joyce Tower Society in Sandycove, where the novel begins, just exactly how this self-imposed exile shaped Joyce's art ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to James Holahan for his wonderful skill at bringing Joyce and Ulysses to life. And special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Be sure to visit the James Joyce Tower &a...
Pablo Neruda's house in Santiago, Chile has been preserved as a museum, called La Chascona. I asked Javier Ormeño Bustos to explain how travel shaped the great poet's life ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. You can learn more about the events described in this episode at the following links: The general context and implications of the Spanish refugees in France: https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/09/03/inenglish/1441275302_272830.html A t...
Mathias first went with his great-grandfather to India at age 7, but that's only one of the many stories he told me about his travels and how they have fed into all the aid work he does now. I asked where we can find more information about his projects ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit his social media services company at SuperSocial.at . Visit his social change project at DigitalParticipationCamp.org . "I say friends in the la...
Eltaj left Sudan and crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, where we met in a small migrant camp at an abandoned train station in Rome. I asked if he wanted to visit the Keats-Shelley House together ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. "Sus sueños terminaban frente a ese mar color de ceniza, espumoso y sucio, que no merecía los riesgos y sacrificios de su aventura." —Gabriel García Márquez
Majda took us into her home in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina with a glass of grappa. I asked why she had to rebuild that home ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org Or consider getting involved with the work Preemptive Love does among displaced peoples. https://preemptivelove.org/ https://www.worldrelief.org/ "Di noi ciascuno reca l’impronta dell’amico incontrato per via; in ognuno la tracc...
Ilmari describes himself as an Eskimo with blond hair. We met in the Sahara Desert. I asked if reindeer and the Northern Lights really played a large role in his life growing up in Lapland ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "Shame is thrown aside when one travels." —Jippensha Ikku
Ilham did everything she could to live in Marrakesh. I asked how to make lemon saffron chicken tajine ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. This is the Two Year Anniversary of the Observer Effect! Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "Follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand." —Virginia Woolf
Johan coordinated volunteers at a refugee camp in Greece. I asked why he had moved from Sweden to Syria previously ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. "The truth is a pathless land." —Tiziano Terzani
Ibrahim escaped Eritrea through the Sahara Desert hidden in the back of a car, crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy crowded into a boat, and now waits in Sweden studying in an old schoolhouse. I asked what language he speaks ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "I didn’t make such an endless journey just to be sent back again now." —Franz Kafka
Alanka could only briefly share a few impressions of Cuba, but the real story is how he and his family got out, and even better what happened in Japan. I asked how these places shaped him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "All the interest we had felt in the place was gone, and we only wanted to get away." —John L. Stephens
Marsh spent decades smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain. We met at L'Abri, a quiet home in the English countryside, where people come to sort out their questions about God. I asked what was the most memorable ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na doine."
Mohammad flew to London from Kuwait while I was there, so we had coffee together. I asked if he likes to travel ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "It is only when you meet someone from a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are." —George Orwell
Eliska realized her dream of living in the mountains year after year, and the result is one of the best Airbnb locales in the world. I asked what effect meeting so many fascinating travelers has had on her ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit Haus Sonneneck→ Listen to Orry in Episode 30→ Listen to Hitoshi in Episode→ Listen to Amin in Episode 55→ Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org “The good host is not merely polite t...
Onur had a lot to say about his appearance that I lost when I deleted the first part of our conversation in another "slight" episode. I asked why he came to Belize ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "Now I must bore you with certain abstract things, but I hope you will listen patiently to them." —Vincent Van Gogh
Torleif is a self-proclaimed Viking. I asked what he thought of the food in Thailand in another "slight" episode ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "I am all of the people I have met." —Jorge Luis Borges
Camiseta plays accordion in Buenos Aires every weekend. This is the first of a series of "slight" episodes, encounters I recorded that may not warrant a full treatment but deserve to be heard nonetheless—or seen in this case. Click the link below to watch a video version of Camiseta with subtitles on our Facebook page. I asked whether he travels a lot ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Watch the subtitled video of Camiseta→ on our Fac...
Flic had nowhere to sleep when a sandstorm overtook her in Bethlehem. I asked what it was like living in China ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "It is required of [everyone] that the spirit within them should walk abroad among [their] fellow [people], and travel far and wide." —Charles Dickens
Lhamo runs Momo Tibetan Dumplings Corner in Brussels with a particularly keen ethical conscience. I asked what it felt like the first time she visited her homeland ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Join the Observer Effect Kiva Team→ at Kiva.org "Every exile lasts too long." —Luis Sepúlveda
Carina hosts Easy German on Youtube, but that's actually only a small part of her and her husband Janusz's larger story. I asked whether the majority of Germans felt remorse after World War II ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Visit Easy German on Youtube→ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbxb2fqe9oNgglAoYqsYOtQ Visit The Global Experience→ http://www.theglobalexperience.org/ Life Back Home→ https://www.facebook.com/lifebackhome/ "Th...
