Episode 8: The Emotional Lives of Everyday Objects

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True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Many prized possessions and artifacts imbued with sentimental value go missing, unintentionally. But, what about when we choose to renounce the items that mean the most to us -- like that mixtape your old girlfriend made, right before she broke up with you? The Nirvana baseball cap you wore to a Kurt Cobain memorial? Or the Sorel boots your father-in-law gave you, right before he died?

Join arts and culture journalist Allyson McCabe (Lost Notes, Short Cuts) as she weaves together personal stories of objects in flux with artistic attempts to convey their spiritual significance in our everyday lives. As Allyson discovers, getting rid of your baggage isn't quite as simple as getting rid of the bags.

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1:27.3	Elsa, tell me a little bit about your closet. Is there perhaps an object that no longer
1:37.9	sparks joy when you really want to get rid of? I would say I have many objects like that.
1:43.3	Basically, the entire section of my closet devoted to professional clothing, which I sometimes
1:48.2	refer to as the dry cleaning section. But since the pandemic, I haven't really had to
1:52.7	wear many of those things and I would love to be able to get rid of them permanently.
1:57.1	I'm talking to Arts and Culture Journalist Allison McCabe. And Allison is not alone in her
2:02.6	struggle to part ways with the artifacts of her life. A few years ago, she noticed that
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