Dreams come true

Awhile back, I had couple of free hours and a long list of jobs to do around the house. I got my laptop out and clicked on my music list to enjoy some tunes while I worked. A few weeks prior I had plugged my phone into my computer to transfer a file and I unknowingly transferred many of the audio interviews I’d recorded over to my laptop. They intermingled with my music list. As a result, my randomly selected mix of songs included random interviews I had conducted with countless farmers and agribusiness professionals over the years.

The first interview started playing over my laptop speaker and I sort of groaned. I stopped what I was doing (I think caulking the shower) and went to skip to the next song. It wasn’t more than two songs later that another interview came on, and I repeated the process. This time though, there were three interviews in a row I needed to skip before finding a song.… Continue reading