How To Share Great Conversations

One of the most distinct memories of my time at the wilderness therapy program I was sent to as a kid was from my first night there. I was obviously disoriented - being the victim of a legal kidnapping¹ some fifteen hours earlier - but once the initial shock started to fade & I got as “settled in” as I could, things felt weirdly … normal?

We were sitting in our “kitchen” - a patch of dirt near where we pitched our tarps - and I had just failed at preparing the rice & beans they gave us to eat on my camp stove after trying to get creative & “season” the rice with a sprinkle of my Tang² .

As one of the staff members took pity & shared some of their food with me, (it was my first day, after all), I picked up on a conversation between one of the other campers (inmates) and a staff member. The more I began to paid attention, the more I began to cringe.

I want to disclaim what I’m about to say by ensuring you that I am not a big Sonic the Hedgehog fan. I know there are plenty of jokes around the Blue Blur & Autism - some of which I’ve told - but I’m really only in the top 3% or so of Americans in Sonic knowledge.