🎧Listen To This | Resilience, Retreat, a Rom Com & Fire
3 Podcast Recs + Audiobook for Saturday, January 18th
Welcome to Listen To This, a new section within Welcome Wanderer. Each day I send you one of my favorite podcast episodes or audiobooks that moved me, challenged me, or simply made life a little brighter.
Podcasts of the day:
Consider This from NPR | ‘The Birds are back.’ Resilience in the ruins of the Palisades fire | Jan 17 2025 | 10 min
To The Best Of Our Knowledge | Retreat from the Day-to-Day Life | 53 min
The Book Review | How a Wildfire Sent Pico Iyer in Search of Silence | Jan 17 2025 | 45 min
Why They Mattered To Me:
These 3 episodes beautifully complement one another, exploring how seasons of solitude, quiet, and shadowy unknowns can lead us toward what matters most in our lives. As Pico Iyer said, “it puts a frame around my daily life so that I can see everything that’s around it, which is much more significant.” Also, did I mention one of the conversations includes a lady who spent 39 days in complete darkness!Words To Treasure:
“I think that invisible, inner savings account is really one that needs to be attended to. We all have to make living, but we also have to make a life. And it’s that life, and it’s that secret deposit that’s all that we have to draw upon when reality makes a house call.”
-Pico Iyer
Join me tomorrow for your Podcast Potion—a roundup of the top 7 podcast episodes from my week, the ones I couldn’t stop thinking about!
💌Hit reply and let me know of a topic, issue, or concern you are curious about and I will respond with a podcast episode or audiobook you might want to check out :)
-Charissa
PS: There’s a book I’m indulging in right now that also has to do with fires, and it’s a romcom by Katherine Center, one of my all-time favorite authors! It’s called Things You Save In A Fire, about a tough, badass female fighter and how she finds love and hope and forgiveness.