nibling

Some weeks ago we were driving in the car. I started hearing nice voices speaking in a language I thought sounded beautiful. I told my husband to turn the volume up on the radio, asking him if it was English they were speaking.  My husband looked at me in a confused way, kind of like I was crazy and told me it wasn't coming from the radio but from my phone that I had in my hand. I started laughing and looked down on my phone. I saw a very familiar image of two men, one pretending to shave the other one with no beard. My phone had started playing my favorite podcast...

(YLE's Ted & Kaj podcast)

Apparently it wasn't only me tired of all the Mexican Spanish but even my phone decided a relaxing break was needed. I have loyally been listening to only this podcast for several years now. I put these Swedish speaking Finns on often in the evening to forget about everything else and gently fall asleep to their calm voices and relaxing subjects. Often my phone keeps on playing the podcast, one episode after the next, all through the night. Sometimes my dreams were very much about subjects they were talking about but often the two guys started to show up in person in my dreams. Especially the tall blond guy. Perhaps because he often talks more or because I as well follow his instagram profile. In one of the dreams I was in his apartment and I asked if I could breastfeed my son in his kitchen. He answered me that he was on his way out but that I could lock up after myself. I answered him "no worries, you can trust me". That morning I decide enough was enough and I needed to start listening to other podcasts. 
Back in 2015 I loved listening to Gimlet media's Mystery Show but unfortunately only a few episodes came out and then it stopped. I decided that maybe Gimlet media had come out with some other good shows and I landed on a show called Conviction. It is a very interesting and well done show. Especially season 1. Season 2 was too much for me to handle in the evenings so I made sure to have enough hours between each episode and my night of sleep. It's scary the stuff that happens in the USA I have to say.
That was when I landed on the podcast Every Little thing, also by GIMLET. Flora Lichtman's voice is just as nice and soothing as Starlee Kine's. Te subjects of the shows are relaxing and neutral. She even managed to pull off talking about the COVID-19 in a way that didn't give me anxiety. That's pretty hard these days. My absolute favorite is the episode about flamingos, they are really powerful birds and absolutely underestimated. Like us women.
So the reason for me writing about nibling has everything to do with this show. Nibling is an upcoming gender neutral word for nieces and nephews, like sibling. There should be more gender neutral words in every language. I love them. I'm all for promoting them and I really hope this one makes it to the dictionary.  

So here we have my son in quarantine. A nibling of my sibling. Wondering just like us, where all of this is going