Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories
Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories brings community voices to life — recorded live in the moment. At its heart is the mobile Step-In! booth, a small traveling space where people pause amid the noise of daily life to share a thought, a memory, or a feeling.
Beyond the booth, Step-In! also meets people where they are — on the street, at events, or in quiet one-on-one conversations — capturing the same spirit of openness and spontaneity wherever it happens.
Season 1: Write Up The Coast — curated conversations and reflections that explore the meaning of community through storytelling.
Season 2: Step-In! — spontaneous recordings from public spaces and personal exchanges that reveal real voices, real moments, and real connection.
Created and hosted by Mark Sanford Gross, Step-In! invites us all to pause, listen, and remember: every story matters.
Write Up The Coast – Step-In! Stories
Season 1, Episode 6 — “A Better Place: A Conversation in the Forest”
Planning for “what happens to us and where we go” can be one of the greatest gifts we leave our loved ones — yet many of us avoid the conversation. In this gentle, reflective episode, Mark Sanford Gross visits Better Place Forests in Point Arena, California, and speaks with Forest Memorial Manager Gillian Nye about the choices, meanings, and environmental care behind this living memorial landscape.
Recorded live February 4, 2025
Episode Description
Planning for what happens to us — and where we go — when the time comes is a gift we give to those we love. Still, many of us put it off. Modern options and environmental considerations often complicate our decisions.
Better Place Forests offers one such alternative. In this episode, Mark Sanford Gross talks with Gillian Nye, Forest Memorial Manager at Better Place Forests in Point Arena, California, about how a forest can become a place of remembrance, renewal, and peace.
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