Human Echoes Podcast

Common Use by Jay Wilburn “I don’t understand why we are here.” The older gentleman in the driver’s seat adjusted his fedora and scanned through the pages of his ledger. “If you understood, you wouldn’t be riding along to learn, would you now, compatriot.” The younger man in the passenger’s seat peered through the windshield of the parked car at the battered, silver trailer. He saw the eclectic, folk art around the grassless lawn and a windmill that appeared nonfunctional in the desert wind. “We are eliminating obsolete words for the next edition. Is the fellow that lives in this domicile an expert on lexicon?” The driver closed his ledger and placed it on the broiling dashboard. “He’s a hold out, a hold over.” “I don’t understand, sir.” “You are quite the ingénue, ain’t ya?” The young man wiped at the sweat gathering in his collar. “We learn through inquiry, sir. I’ll wait in silence if that serves you better.” “Touché, son, touché,” the elder leaned back and blinked the sweat out of his eyes. “Ever