The Story . . . → Read More: May 21, 2009: Campfire Stories And Karate Kids]]> On the May Long weekend SPFer Matt Street went camping at Sand Banks Provincial Park and took along his audio recorder.  He recorded some interesting sounds, but he particularly liked this story that was read around the campfire. Listen carefully and you can hear the fire and the frogs in the background.

The Story is tentatively called “The Rub.” – By Douglas Ullrich ready by Mark Sedore.  Here is what the Author wrote about it:

“It’s sort of random at the start, and then makes more sense as it goes on.  It’s basically about sitting on the subway or the streetcar and looking across the aisle at somebody who looks totally content, just in the moment and thoughtless, and almost wishing you could have that kind of simplistic certainty or peacefulness (even though you’re aware of the fact that just sitting there, pondering all this stuff, analyzing all these angles, means you could never be that person).”

In the second part of the show Matt Street reports back to Paul Martin on a Karate fundraiser for the Brockville YMCA in Brockville Ontario.