PAT WALTERS

I'm a producer at an NPR show called Radiolab.
Happy birthday, Peter. Aside from The Snow Leopard, my favorite of his books is a lesser known title called Blue Meridian. Somewhere in there he writes about hearing a whale’s song for the first time, and how it feels to him as if its the sound of the beginning of life. The world would be a wiser and gentler place, he writes, if each of us started our day with that sound. More on PM, from today’s Writer’s Almanac (which also includes a really sharp little poem): Matheissen said, “I’ve never been bored one day in my life. I could fill 500 years with no problem.”

Happy birthday, Peter. Aside from The Snow Leopard, my favorite of his books is a lesser known title called Blue Meridian. Somewhere in there he writes about hearing a whale’s song for the first time, and how it feels to him as if its the sound of the beginning of life. The world would be a wiser and gentler place, he writes, if each of us started our day with that sound.

More on PM, from today’s Writer’s Almanac (which also includes a really sharp little poem): Matheissen said, “I’ve never been bored one day in my life. I could fill 500 years with no problem.”