Jake has been coming to The Little Station long enough to know where the coffee is.
But today he notices something different.
The ON AIR light is glowing.
“That’s new.”
Apparently not.
“You weren’t looking.”
Then a voice comes through the radio:
“…and sometimes the smallest places hold the biggest stories.”
Jake wants to know who’s talking.
Someone with something to say.
More importantly, he wants to know who’s listening.
“Maybe nobody.”
“Maybe somebody who needs to.”
And perhaps that’s enough.
The Little Station is slowly revealing what kind of place it is. People come through the door. They drink coffee. They read. They draw. They talk. They listen.
And every now and then, somebody turns on a microphone and sends a story out into the world without knowing exactly where it will land.
Ryan finally reaches a conclusion:
“So this place really is a radio station.”
The answer hasn’t changed.
“Sometimes.”
♜ ROOK — new every day at noon.
Different adventures. Same journey.
A note from the Little Station:
There’s a little bit of Father Robert Griffin in today’s ROOK. Fr. Griffin spent years behind a microphone at Notre Dame, telling stories on The Children’s Hour. I’ve always loved the idea that radio doesn’t require knowing exactly who is listening. Sometimes you simply put something good into the world because somewhere, somebody may need to hear it.