Digital Voices

Podcasting is when you post an audio file on the internet of yourself saying a speech, an essay, or just plain saying something. I listened to the essay Returning to What’s Natural by Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus. I chose this piece because I thought it sounded interesting and a fun topic. The fact that she took something like temporary hair dye and could compare it to changing yourself stood out to me. She said that when we change our hair color we still have that plain old boring brown to come back to after 20 to 26 washes. That to me is like saying we can change the way we act and the friends we surround ourselves with but we’ll always those friends we’ve had since grade school or those comic books we’ve collected since we could read. No matter how much we change ourselves we always have the old to fall back on. The message was so clear and so well spoken that it was effective. I understand what she was trying to say. The introduction caught my attention because she said, “I believe in semi-permanent hair dye.” That’s not something you hear someone say everyday, and I’m proud to say I believe in it too.