This story is pretty short, being a little under 3 minutes. The storyteller speaks at a gradual pace, and it seems that the editor took the important pieces of sweet memories and assembled them together to paint this picture of her relationship with her grandfather. Halfway through, the story shifts to the impact of those memories and Libby’s takeaways from them. In the final 30 seconds, music comes in to close the story out. The audio is soft in texture, it sounds very balanced. In some moments, you do hear background noise between her words, but for the most part the space she’s in sounds very quiet, or at least they were able to filter out most of the background noise. However, the background noise that still exists doesn’t hurt the storytelling at all. In fact, it sort of makes her words feel lived-in, as she reminisces on a long life.
This story is more of an interview or conversation than Libby’s, and it features music at the beginning and ending. This story is also paced well, starting out with an introduction to the parent-child relationship, the joys and hardships they’ve faced, and ends on an inspirational takeaway. The audio here is a lot clearer than Libby’s, with almost no background noise and a very balanced composition of frequencies. When Kaysen speaks, they sometimes laugh and get a bit louder, but the audio doesn’t clip or sound overwhelmingly loud, and it also doesn’t sound like it was overtly muffled or muted. The clarity of the sound helps the listener feel the intimacy of their relationship– it’s like they are not just the only two people in the room, but in the world.