I started this podcast with Harley Ferris as an excuse to talk about our creative pursuits and the challenges we each encounter.

We figured that the joy and frustration other people encounter when making work might be a lot like our own. We were foolish to wonder whether or not identifying and talking about our successes and failures might ring true with fellow makers. But foolish doesn’t mean wrong. 

Each of us has our creative touchstones. I often return to T.S. Eliot to learn about spirituality. Georgia O’Keeffe for serenity. James Wright about home. Elizabeth Bishop about grief. I’ve spent a lot of time searching for touchstones to build a framework for feeling and processing the world.

But they aren’t kin. I share no fellowship with them. They created for a big world. I want to create for a circle of friends, family, and fellow amateurs (maybe semi-pros). And I'd like you to create for each other. To become great in a very, very small world.

Harley found his creative footing and has moved on from the project. So now, I want to continue this project with a new set of makers. Friends and strangers who want to talk about one piece of their work, their process, how they got started, where they failed, whom they make for, and why they still do it.

This podcast is a project I wish someone else had made thirty years ago. It might have changed my life. It’s my semi-mystical, semi-practical attempt to go back in time and create that project for my younger self, you, and for any other Fools who want to spend a bit more time in Wonderland.

With Love,

Trauman