Faith, Beauty, and Bonds

About this episode

The episode explores themes of memory, loss, and the bonds formed during childhood through a reflective narrative.

Lake You are a young girl playing on a log with your brother and dog The water in the lake clear and cold and deep, the rocks warm on the bank, little cottonwoods grow on the edge, in the distance: Mountains near enough to cast their shape on the waters surface. The water blue and green some rocks white, moved there in glacial time. One day you will be a woman Living in a city apartment And you will go down to a corner bar And you will meet a man, with curling dark hair And apricot eyes And you will tell him About the pink bathing suit you wore that day About how you called your dog giggles, but his name was Oliver How you tried to get him to float on the log About how warm the sun, and cold the water was About the moment your uncle and giggles fell off the log and shriekedAbout how your brother died that summer And you'd run down a winding road With the wind blowing in one ear,The grass cicadas drone in the other You’ll be shocked to feel so young Yet so far from something long ago Be alarmed and excited at the warm hand of this once stranger Holding your arm as your memories surge And you cry, and are held. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other…

People in this episode

Host: Hudson Gardner

Topics covered

• memory
• loss
• childhood
• relationships
• grief
• identity

Keywords

• faith
• beauty
• bonds
• childhood memories
• grief
• relationships
• lake
• city life

Mentioned in this episode

Places: city, lake, corner bar, winding road, Mountains

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