On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves – not because it’s their job and not because it’s a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it’s your thing.
On this episode of This Is My Thing, we’re talking with Mendy Ouzillou about his fascination with meteorites. Since childhood, he’s loved interesting rocks of all kinds – “I always had my eyes pointed downwards, always looking for that special rock,” he says. But when he later came to understand that regular people could find or buy rocks that had fallen to Earth from outer space, well, that’s when an interest became what Mendy calls an obsession.
On this page, you can listen to the on-air version of Mendy’s story, but if you check out the This Is My Thing podcast feed, you’ll find a much longer version of this piece (as well as some older pieces you might have missed or might just want to listen to again).
We’ve talked to a lot of other people about their things and those stories will be coming in future weeks. We’re working on stories about jewelry making, a sport called Underwater Torpedo League, and something called Cowboy Golf, which we think is also a sport, more or less. Stay tuned!
And we want to hear from you about the thing you do just because you love it! You’ll find an online form on the main This Is My Thing page where you can tell us about the thing that brings you joy, calms your mind, or feeds your soul in some way.
