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USED TO THE LAST DROP
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YOU CAN COOK
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BEFORE AND AFTER
David Whyte's 2016 OnBeing Interview
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I nearly have this interview memorized word-for-word (I wish I could replicate his accent). I am not overstating the impact when I say that this conversation changed the course of my life. The permission, freedom, and invitation infused into David Whyte's poetry and philosophy woke me tf up inside of my own [probably dissociated] way of moving through the world nearly ten years ago. I'd made myself small. I'd been afraid of my own earnestness and wonder. I'd stepped into the shell of Chill Girl in order to avoid being Cringe Girl (Fun Fact: I hate the word cringe and would maybe go as far as to say I was traumatized by it.) I still quote this interview regularly — "We have so many allies in this world — like even the color blue in the sky..." — and reference it often to this day. I'll probably turn it on again for my walk this afternoon. Gawd bless you, David Whyte.
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Beyond Fixing the World: Embracing the Cracks and Creating Sanctuary (Bayo Akomolafe)
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Listen. Bayo Akomolafe is right now (2026) blowing my mind all the way open the way David Whyte did in 2016. (Do they know each other? They must?) I am about to dive into his book These Wilds Beyond Our Fences but THIS INTERVIEW RIGHT HERE had me gagged. Paused and paused and paused just to sit with the poetry flowing out of him sentence after sentence. An invitation to curiosity, to thinking and talking and living outside of the boundaries we, often subconsciously, find ourselves confined by.
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Rosalía Interview on Popcast
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The way I drank up her pre-LUX interviews... this one is especially rich to me. She feels easeful and curious and grounded and excited. She introduced me to the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, and specifically The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which has shifted the way I think about story and honestly even human evolution since. What a woman.
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Poog Podcast
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Good gawd I love Kate Berlant and Jaqueline Novak and the AUDACITY.
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I Need You Guys
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Friends being silly while giving advice on lil things. Always a delight.
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Diabolical Lies
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New listener and already recommend it regularly. Complexity! Nuance! Humor! Research!
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