A man finds a canary in a junk shop, and upon realizing that the little bird talks, he takes it to his home, thinking that this discovery will change the course of humanity. Yet, the man doesn't know that his new pet is quite a philosopher.

In the comments, we reflect on the problem of assuming; we present the storyteller Antonio Rocha and talk about the Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Read more.

Today's voice

Antonio Rocha is an award-winning internationally acclaimed storyteller. A native of Brazil, he began his career in the performing arts in 1985. In 1988 he received a Partners of the Americas grant to come to the USA to perform and deepen his mime skills with Mime Master Tony Montanaro. Since then, he has earned a Summa Cum Laude Theater BA from USM (University of Southern Maine) and studied with Master Marcel Marceau. Mr. Rocha's unique fusion of mime and spoken word has been performed from Singapore to South Africa and many places in between including sixteen countries on six continents.