Frank Bruni: Adapting to Loss

Every problem New York Times columnist Frank Bruni faced had a simple fix. Doctors offered reasonable solutions for reasonable problems. Preventative care guaranteed future health. That is, until he woke up one morning without vision in his eye. This experience forced him to rethink how much of life is in our control and how to live fully in the face of unfixable problems. In this conversation, Kate and Frank discuss letting go of the idea that life is a series of choices and learning that there are things we can’t fix, how the lacquered lives we see on social media deny us the fuller picture of each other’s problems, importance of finding the things that light up our lives and taking the hard stuff bird by bird, vine by vine.