The first post. The one where the blog gets its name — and everything begins.

There's a taxi driver in Kupang whose entire windscreen is filled with stuffed toys. Impractical, unconventional, completely joyful, and utterly himself. This is the story of what he taught me about how to live.

Shelley McPhee reads her essay Toys on the Windscreen aloud.

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