Humans seem unusually attached to stories of leaving. Leaving home. Leaving bondage. Leaving certainty. Leaving one version of themselves behind in order to become another. So why do stories of crossings endure? Why do humans preserve them? The story of Exodus, for example, becomes one of humanity's greatest campfires, not because it tells us where people were, but because it introduces the concept of crossing and the subsequent transformations that crossings have on us.

This episode quietly speaks about this curious phenomenon and asks the questions of what doors have you walked through, what changed you, and who witnessed it? Welcome back to the campfire. This is The Observer's Seat.

Apologies for the mild use of Adult Language in this episode. Parents please exercise editorial restraint before allowing children to listen. Thank You!

Season One Episode 1 of The Observer’s Seat starts with a walk through a personal framework I call the Campfire Theory—looking at how humans have always gathered, told stories, and made sense of being alive. Think of it as an introduction to your host, to the story telling, a different aspect of looking at history, part reflection, part “wait, why do we do it that way?”— while all meant to help you notice your own patterns with a little more warmth and a little less judgment.

Apologies for the mild use of Adult Language in this episode. Parents please exercise editorial restraint before allowing children to listen. Thank You!