Number One:

Transcript

[sounds of distant trains passing through]

I’m standing by my bedroom window, you can probably hear the train from the distance. I moved here a few months ago and I love it, because yeah there’s a big train station nearby, but it is at the right distance to make all those iron creaks and clangs warm, nostalgic even romantic. I love to wake up in the morning with this gentle touch of sound to my ears. The wake up is the crisis moment for me. It’s when I think about all my mistakes, all the things I’ve done, I’ll do. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much effort I’ve always put in my life in jumping on the right train. Be on time. Never miss a ride. Always be careful to not take the wrong direction. The result is: I’m not where I want to be now. It’s time to throw the timetable away. Let the train drive you, open yourself to the unexpected and see where it’s going to take you.

Divination by: Jonathan Zenti

Jonathan Zenti is an independent radio and podcast producer based in Milan, Italy. His works has been finalists at Prix Italia and Prix Europa, he's the recipient of a Hearsay GanBearla Award and a Third Coast Skylarking Award. He co-founded the first meeting of independent radio producers MIRP and with his podcast Meat he has been finalist at the Radiotopia's Podquest in 2016. He's currently working on his podcast in Italian called Problemi and he is running after some bills falling from the podcasting money train. He does a 30 minutes session of what he calls "ugly dancing" every morning to cope with his everyday life.