![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Bowler: So, my dears, how’s that for a welcome back to our eighth season of the Everything Happens podcast? I’m Kate Bowler and oh, do I have a treat for you today? You are going to love this one. Because there is no cure for being human, but we are all good medicine. We have to learn how to find hope and courage and beauty by setting aside the promises of self-help gurus and Instagram influencers and making peace with our beautiful, terrible finitude. We have to learn how to build a beautiful life inside new limitations. For many in the midst of this pandemic, life has shrunk to the size of the room we’re in. Those of us who are trapped by fragile bodies, commitments, dependance, geography and money and circumstances. This is a podcast for all of us who understand that we are more limited than we may have realized. It just means that you’re human, again, today. And if you already know that, first of all, I’m so sorry, that kind of understanding comes at a cost and it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. ![]() We are going to need courage to live here inside our actual bodies and limitations and relationships, and we are going to need to tell each other the truth. We are going to need hope, but not shallow optimism. ![]() We are going to need some fortifications, some fresh supplies in this time of endless attrition. Kate Bowler: Oh hello, anyone here is tired as I am? As committed to like her pants, as I am? As horrified by the news or confused about what constitutes dignity anymore? Maybe three years of a global pandemic will do that to you. ![]()
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