Argues For The Pleasures And Transformative Possibility Of Talking To People Listeners Don't Know. Lives Are Increasingly Insular. People Are In A Hurry, Heads Are Down, Minds Elsewhere, Hearing Only The Voices Already Recognized And Rarely Take The Effort To Experience Something Or Someone New. Talking To A Stranger Creates A Shared Humanity, It's A Source Of Creative Energy, It Opens The World, It Cements Relationships To The Places Listeners Live And Work And Play.