City of the Rails is a new podcast produced by a journalist and mother whose kid runs off to be a train bum. In her daughter’s sudden, surprise absence, this parent proceeds to launch a massive project of investigation. If you have ever known train-hoppers, dirty kids, or gutter punks, this is their story—finally! I am stoked to listen to a very basic lady start to understand anarchism. For me, one truly difficult thing about being free is that if you want to visit a place called home, you’ll still have to leave again. Listening to Danelle Morton’s revelatory distress, heartbreak, and whole-hearted love was probably the closest I’ll get to understanding my own mama. I cry at least once during most of the episodes, and I relish hearing the details of a wild life that I will never lead. I feel very grateful for this woman’s perseverance in telling a true story of why a beloved child might run away to be free.