This short essay is the second in an as-yet-undetermined number of episodes in this podcast's "What if ..." series. The first episode also launched Everyday Creation, which debuted in early February 2024. However, I rewrote and re-recorded that episode so many times — I truly lost count — that it took me nine months, off and on, to get it to the point where I was ready to move on to the second in the series .
I say all this to explain why the first "What if ..." is Episode 1 and this one is Episode 68. Quite a spread between the two, isn't there?
In the interim, I did a couple of related essays, though they're titled differently. If you want to check them out too, they're Episodes 55 and 57: "Smile on a Summer's Day" and "Picturing a Kinder, Gentler World," respectively.
This is Kate Jones. Thank you for listening to Everyday Creation, available on YouTube and in podcast directories including Apple, Audible, iHeart and Spotify.