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New Year’s Day is a time of rest and reflection.

I listened to randomly selected clips from 6 days of our lives. In 2019, we have posted 57 episodes of Broken Area. I am not sure if these selected clips have anything specific in common but they all make me smile because“ they’re so us.”

We talk about seemingly random, boring, non-consequential things: paintings, using technology, a rude cashier, potholes, Madeleine’s trip to Japan.

Our Saturday or Friday grocery trip is always the same: leaving home, going to the grocery store, going to the LCBO and returning home. Dave adds: “sometimes we return bottles.”

What’s weird is that we can’t seem to stop wanting to do it and people appear to like knowing we’re here too. Our presence I think is felt and reinforced by these seemingly small inconsequential events and by our listeners having become used to Dave’s matter-of-fact storytelling and my emotional rantings. The combination of our opposite personalities and outlooks on the surface but very similar stance on things that matter is probably what has led to our continued listenership.

To me, our podcast is a string of life events that can be described as a microcosm within a microcosm of a small bordertown, in Northern Ontario. Kind of the opposite of “in a galaxy far far away.”

Thanks for listening and Happy New Year 2020 !