This is Rumblestrip. I'm Erica Heilman.

It says my subscription has been canceled to iPhone Life, and I don't even know what iPhone

Life is.

Well, maybe that's one of those things where you just want to delete it because...

Well, I will, and they can follow me up. Yeah.

That's my mom and me a couple nights ago on my couch with our digital devices. I was going to

call this show diffuse despair, but I think I'd rather call it what now sounds like, so that it can include more than despair. Last week I asked listeners to record sounds that try to capture what right now sounds like, and you did, and they're incredible, all of them. This is just a small sampling of what I received,

and I'm hoping to make more shows that it'll be a series that will help us all feel more together than a part.

So whenever you think something or hear something that captures what right now sounds like, record it and send it

to me and when I have enough recordings, I will make another show and then another show.

So here is episode one of what now sounds like. Welcome.

I don't know what day it is. I've lost track of time. On the 6th of October,

I packed up my life of 25 years in Cape Town in South Africa and I took just what I needed,

moved it into a little plumber's van and I hit the road to start a year-long journalistic project

where I want to travel around the country and find the invisible and untold stories of how climate collapse is

unfolding on our doorstep and in our lifetime.

As I record this, I'm standing in the doorway of a little cottage on a farm in New England

area of the eastern Cape Highlands, just south of the Lusitia border and it's beginning

to rain and you may hear the thunder rolling overhead.

Beautiful.

And a whole lot of swallows out.

Ooh, is it too that?

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