Lost in Translation – Part 1

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Our first story comes to us from Chris Hallberg who shares his story in which Dr. Steve, an American doctor, gives a Salvadoran patient a pizza cutter as a gift. The patient returns with a plastic baggie full of poop and a neon orange pizza cutter inside. Chris calls his story Pizza Cutter Medicine”.

📷Donal Lakatua

Chris Hallberg is a family medicine doctor who’s worked with patients in rural Alaska, Montana, the Caribbean, and Central America. He enjoys cooking, making music with friends, and poking around remote corners of Montana with his girlfriend Charlotte and their dog Sidney.

Our next storyteller is Philippa Crawford who leaves her busy life working at an ad agency in San Francisco when she falls in love with the man of her dreams. Phillipa calls her story “Love Found Home”

📷Donal Lakatua

Philippa Crawford is East Coast-born. She thrived for 8 years in London, enjoyed 10 years in the Bay area, and found a home in delicious Montana 35 years ago. She is a Tapping Practitioner and an Intuitive Coach. These days, she dares new experiences outside her comfort zone. She enjoys finding peace and fascination in nature, and animals, including reptiles and insects. Dancing is her go to along with her big, loving, extraordinary family.

In our next story, Richard Thornton hires a kid to capture an anteater, but the kid comes back with an unknown monster! Richard calls his story “I GET A PET”.

Richard Thornton grew up in Southern California and worked forty years in the TV and motion picture business, mainly as a Sound Boom man.

He is an Army veteran who served as a topographic surveyor, making maps in Ethiopia and The Great Southwest of New Mexico and Arizona.

After his stint in the Army, Richard went back to TV and movies, and during the actors’ strike of 1980, he and his wife came to Montana looking for a home, and after visiting a movie friend in Bigfork, during one of those idyllic September weeks, bought a lousy log house and
stayed.

A couple of years later he quit movies to work exclusively in TV – Sitcoms, commercials, TV specials, and the like – and began many years of commuting to L.A. to work.

Richard retired in 2005 in Kalispell, to live the carefree life of a sixty-three-year-old with three school-age daughters at home to raise.

Our final storyteller in this episode of the podcast is Nita Maddox who organized a mass naked bike ride in Missoula, MT, and received death threats because of it. It was, she says, “quite a lot.” Nita calls her story “Bare as You Dare!”

Nita Maddox is an adventurer in the world. She is a born and raised Montanan who lives a bit feral on planet Earth. She currently works as a social worker and hopes one day to be a published author.