The Story Behind The Stories

Pardon our dust. We’re assembling the assemblies that are going to be assembling the assembled.

Over the next few weeks, we are going to be propagating this feed with lots of stories we’ve been working on and the work it takes to get them written, recorded, and produced. It’s been an interesting path to get here, so I’m going to offer the occasional insight to that long highway too.

I’ve been working on Infinite Shop (a story) for the better part of a decade. It’s a story about Millie Salmon and her extended chosen family, the bookstore they love, and the trouble it causes. The bookstore reflects a lot of my beliefs in community, the importance of connection, and the ways our stories build into something bigger.

For me, that something bigger is actually where this Infinite Shop Limited (a website and company) comes from. It’s a shared garage full of tools, a friendly neighborhood workshop, and a space where it’s okay to do the messy work of creating something beautiful. That’s a big part of my understanding of community too. In places where we really live and work, every moment cannot be a postcard perfect and super spotless. It takes making a mess of things to really find out how far we can push the story we want to tell.

Of course, at the moment, the mess is trying to get this website to work correctly. It’s been a while since I put one of these together from the ground up, and at that time, there were all sorts of cute “pardon our dust” animated logos. That’s all to say that the stories we’re going to be sharing have a story behind them too. I look forward to sharing them as we go, and you can see how some of this dust and debris ends up shaping what you end up hearing.

- Ray