Today’s episode deal’s with abandoned friendships and how to avoid twisting your ankles in the holes they leave behind, the mythos of normality and how speciously the meaning of that word can adapt to apply and restrict anything it wants. It deals with the big freaking apple! And it deals with the ineffectual nature of well-meaning individuals trying to save, or rehabilitate, or rather, just not actively murder….nature.
Marbles, Light Pyramid, Anamanaguchi, Masakatsu Takagi, Dr. Dog, Destroyer, Andrew Bird, Taylor Swift, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkle, Belle and Sebastian, Paper Raincoat, The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Max Richter, and Zee Avi. Rachel Carson. Special thanks to our contributors this week: Jacob Cline, A. Spektor, Ryan Spears, and Emma Ashley-Gross.

Episode 11

Pertinent historical speeches from leaders and artists throughout history, speaking through time about the issues of their days. Kind of looks like the same issues of our days. Right? Almost like they're writing letters to the future...and like the future...is...us.

Music by: Clearside, Run the Jewels, TuneYards, Greg brown, Simon & Garfunkle, Johann Johannsson, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Agnes Obel, Utah Phillips and Ani Difranco, and Pete Seeger. Speeches and poems by Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin, Walt Whitman, Howard Zinn, Utah Phillips, and Gloria Steinem. They were delivered by James Earl Jones, Jesse Williams, and I really have no idea who was reading that Whitman poem.

Episode 12

SheaSheaDJ hosts and produces Dear Future on freeform radio in Portland Oregon. Send your letters to dearfuturefreeform@gmail.com!