Devi Laskar is a writer living in Cupertino, California: "It was just so different. And I don’t think I would’ve become an artist or a writer if hadn’t been exposed to all these different thoughts and all these different people."

Sounds in this episode include recordings by Freesound users pogotron (CC Sampling Plus 1.0); john9 (CC BY 3.0); ivolipa and chris-dagorne (CC0 1.0); as well as Tierstimmenarchiv/Winfried Krey (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). Image by U.S. National Park Service/Neal Herbert via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.