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The Silence Between Hello

The Silence Between Hello

De : Jenny Skoog Mondesir
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The Silence Between Hello is about what we inherit from our families and what we leave behind. Each season explores one family member through the artifacts of their lives: voicemails, diary entries, handmade objects, and the complicated legacy of religious fundamentalism. It's about the complexity of love across difference and distance, the weight of faith used as control, and the silence that both protects and harms.Copyright Jenny Skoog Mondesir Relations Sciences sociales
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  • Sister Songs Ep 7: "Duet"

    Sister Songs Ep 7: "Duet"
    Mar 4 2026
    SISTER SONGS SEASON 3 Episode 7: "Duet"

    In music, a duet is two voices playing together. Two melodies intertwining. Two people listening to each other, responding, making space, finding harmony. That's what we finally learned to do, Annemarie and me. After the silence. After the letters. After everything. We learned how to play together again.

    Today is March 4th, 2026 — two years since my sister died.

    In this episode: A duet we recorded in her living room in Longview. An Airbnb near the Bridge of the Gods where she played "Annie's Song" on the piano. A movie about Barbie. Forbidden music on the drive home. A question in a Portland restaurant I still don't know how to answer. Marco Polos in a helium voice. A pact about funerals we both broke in different ways. A grave I lay down on. A poem I read into the wind. And the sister who taught me that love, in the end, was more important than faith.


    Music:
    • "Clair de Lune" — Debussy
    • "The Entertainer" — Scott Joplin
    • "Gnossienne No. 1" — Erik Satie
    • "Sarabande" — Handel
    • "Comptine d'un autre été" — Yann Tiersen (performed by Annemarie)
    • "Nearer My God to Thee" — Traditional hymn
    • "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" — Traditional hymn
    • Original duet recording by Jenny & Annemarie, August 2022
    • Additional tracks licensed via Envato Elements
    Thank you: To Sandy, for her friendship, her stories, and for sending me the recording of Annemarie's hands on the piano. To Angie, for her musical guidance and for standing at the front of a restaurant in New York City and reading a poem over my marriage. To James and Frankie, for putting up with endless playbacks. And to you, for listening.
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    21 min
  • Sister Songs Ep 6: "Accompaniment"

    Sister Songs Ep 6: "Accompaniment"
    Feb 25 2026
    SISTER SONGS SEASON 3 Episode 6: "Accompaniment"

    In music, an accompaniment is the part that supports the melody. It's not the main voice — it's the harmony underneath, the chords that hold everything together. The accompaniment doesn't take center stage. But without it, the song falls apart. Annemarie couldn't be at my wedding. But she accompanied me anyway.

    In this episode: A lifetime of loving weddings together — from Princess Diana to Harry and Meghan. A laptop propped up at Loring Place so she could watch from Longview. A Marco Polo of her twirling in a pink dress, worried about looking fat, laughing at herself. Fried chicken shipped on dry ice. Baby blue silk pajamas I opened at bridal breakfast. A poem about managing your husband. And the dinner we said we'd have someday — the four of us, together — that never came.


    Music:
    • "Passacaglia" — Traditional
    • "Spring" from The Four Seasons — Vivaldi
    • "Minuet in G Major" — Bach
    • "Für Elise" & "Moonlight Sonata" — Beethoven
    • "Clair de Lune" — Debussy
    • "Abide With Me" — Traditional hymn
    • Additional tracks licensed via Envato Elements
    Read more: jennyskoog.substack.com

    Content note: This season discusses terminal illness, death, religious trauma, and family estrangement.
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    10 min
  • Sister Songs Ep 5: "Minor Key"

    Sister Songs Ep 5: "Minor Key"
    Feb 18 2026
    SISTER SONGS SEASON 3 Episode 5: "Minor Key"

    In music, a minor key isn't necessarily sad. It's just different. The intervals between notes are smaller. The sound is darker, more complex. A song can be beautiful in a minor key. But you feel the weight of it. Memorial Day weekend, 2022. That's when the key changed.

    In this episode: A reunion at the airport after ten years apart. A pact we made in the car about our parents' funerals. A gym, a treadmill, and something wrong with my sister's head. A panic attack. A train back to Longview without saying goodbye. A 35-minute subway ride where I googled "glioblastoma" and fell apart. A phone call in the Oculus. And the summer we learned how much time we had left.


    Music:
    • "Nearer My God to Thee" — Traditional hymn
    • "Gnossienne No. 1" — Erik Satie
    • "Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major" (Allegro) — Mozart
    • "Canon in D" — Pachelbel
    • "Ave Maria" (Bach/Gounod)
    • "Für Elise" — Beethoven
    • "Scarborough Fair" — Traditional
    • Additional tracks licensed via Envato Elements
    Read more: jennyskoog.substack.com

    Content note: This season discusses terminal illness, death, religious trauma, and family estrangement.
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    15 min
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