Kathryn Nicolai
speaker
1,487 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Kathryn Nicolai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
A calico cat watched me from the top of a porch pier, its tail wrapped around its ample body.
The lights were on in my house, and I smiled in the dark.
I hoped there might be a plate in the oven for me.
and a place waiting at the table.
Another day was done.
And I was home.
Golden Hour.
When I was young
One of my most prized possessions was my first camera.
A point and shoot model I was gifted for my tenth or eleventh birthday.
It was the kind that needed a row of flash bulbs to be plugged into its top.
A stick of sorts made of thin glass with individual bulbs, ten or so to a stick that would flash into life for the instant the shutter was opened, then immediately burn themselves out.
I remember counting the blackened spots on the stick to see how many flashes I had left.
How many more pictures I could take?
Of the balloons tied with ribbons beside my cake.
Or of my friends as they sped around the roller ring.
I had a strong muscle memory of manually winding the film.
my thumbnail catching the teeth of the winding wheel to move to the next photo and peering into the tiny window that showed how many photos remained to be taken.
A roll of film might offer twelve or twenty-four or even thirty-six exposures, and since no part of the process was cheap, you'd think we'd have been more careful with what we shot.
taken time to consider the composition of the photo.
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