What Gives Life Meaning?

Selah Flores interviews her father “F” about what gives life meaning.

Nanci Friedmann & Scott Acord

Nanci speaks about her experience working at a retirement home for priests during COVID. She highlights the importance of building trusting relationships. the reciprocal nature of love, and importance of self-care.

Caleigh Heitmann and Candace Barrett Birk- Intergenerational Storytelling

Caleigh, a college student at the University Massachusetts Amherst, is matched with a community volunteer, Candace, to participate in a semester long storytelling project together for Caleigh's class entitled "The Epidemic of Loneliness. After establishing a new intergenerational relationship, they...

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Roberto Renfrew-Marquez, James Renfrew, and Melissa Marquez

Roberto Renfrew-Marques (36) shares a conversation with his parents, Melissa Marquez (61) and James "Jim" Renfrew (67), about the process of adopting him, the experience they had raising him, and the way they've grown into their life purpose as a...

Finding Meaning of Life Through Love

Kendall, 18 years old, shares her experiences with love across all types, shedding light on her personal meaning of life.

Hold this life's moment in your hands, and squeeze it tight! Interview with Esther conducted by Jessica.

Esther (87) shares her life experience will growing up in Berlin, Germany and England during the war, and then her transition to United States.

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Zazil-xa Davis-Vazquez and Sandra Ortega Vazquez

Zazil-xa Davis-Vazquez (27) speaks to their aunt Sandra Ortega (43) about moving, relationships, and being close to family.

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Martika Evans and Ian Gonzalez

Martika "Tika" Evans (34) speaks with StoryCorps Facilitator Ian Gonzalez (26) about why she chose to join the military, her memories of basic training, and her experience being a mom.

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Sylvia Smoller and Jordan Smoller

Jordan Smoller [no age given] talks with his mother Sylvia Smoller [no age given] about her life including escape from Poland and the Nazis, becoming a refugee, her experience of becoming a world renowned scientist (with whom he sometimes co-authors),...

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Cynthia Anderson and Barbara Jackson

Dr. Barbara Jackson (51) interviews her best friend, Pastor Cynthia Anderson (57), about being a survivor of domestic violence and what she's learned by surviving the challenges that have come to her in her life.

Nathan Santana and Lori Motola

Nathan and Lori participated in this conversation as part of The WAY initiative. They discussed who Nathan is and how and if other people are free and willing to figure things out for themselves.

Elitza Taleva and Lori Motola

Elitza talked about identifying as a being of love and light and how she has triumphed over difficult circumstances to follow what she describes as a divine stairway to her own, personal life purpose.