Episodes

  • Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter

    Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter
    Aug 31 2022
    From the time she was a child, E.B.Bartels had a profound desire for pets in her life. Animals of every kind made her feel a kind of love and connection even deeper than many of her human relationships. But as she matured, the inherent losses she experienced with animals, who typically have relatively short life spans, caused her to explore love and grief. Now her new book, Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, offers a wholehearted look at the love humans have had for animals through history and the ways we grieve them, then carry them with us throughout our lives.
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    56 mins
  • Unburying My Father

    Unburying My Father
    Aug 17 2022
    Zander Masser was only 11 when his father died of AIDS, contracted because of his treatment for hemophilia. How much does a child know about his parent as a full human being? How would he carry his dad in his life going forward? It was twenty years later when Zander found his father's catalogue of photographs, taken over a long career. Begun as a desire to get his work out there, it became an exploration of Zander's relationship with his father and his own grief. While collecting more and more of his father's story, he realized all he had lost, and also reclaimed more than he knew he could!
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    52 mins
  • Feeling Fate

    Feeling Fate
    Aug 3 2022
    Right at the beginning of her relationship with the love of her life, Joni Sensel had the disturbing epiphany that she would not have him for long. It turned out to be true. But before he died, it pushed her to engage fully and with all of her self for every moment with him. And, contrary to the fact and science-based self she was used to, even losing him proved to her that intuition and mystery are real. How did their love, her grief and all the times she felt his presence after his death inform life going forward?
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    57 mins