Common Ground
Stories of Knowledge and Belonging
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Common Ground
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Narrated by:
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Gary Roelofs
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By:
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Ricardo Gomez
A Danish smokehouse master and his reluctant apprentice. A Hong Kong cartographer and the student who will eventually surpass her. A Bogotá healer whose plant knowledge exists nowhere but inside her. A Kyoto restorer who can only teach by doing. A Pacific Northwest memory-gardener who is running out of time.
Common Ground is a literary short story collection built around a single obsession: what we owe our teachers, and what is lost when we fail to pay that debt.
Five master-apprentice pairings across five disciplines and five corners of the world—each story a study in the knowledge that cannot be written down, the understanding that lives in hands and timing and years of proximity. The collection reads as a meditation on belonging, transmission, and the strange intimacy of learning something from someone who will eventually be gone.
Quiet, precise, and accumulative—the kind of stories that reward audio listening, where pacing and voice carry as much meaning as plot.
©2026 Ricardo Gomez (P)2026 Ricardo Gomez