Project Apology

Episode 05: 'even anything would have felt just better'


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Meet Lily. Lily is in her late 20’s. Her letter is addressed to her father, a man who was absent from her life and manages to be intrusive at the same time. Any conversation she has with him about his absence leaves her feeling disoriented. Lily describes parental absence with the best analogy: it’s like untangling your own knot, while helping the remaining parent untangle their own. It’s messy work. Lily teaches us about the empowering ways anger can feel and how lonely shame can make us feel too. For her, the key to any solution is the village. No matter how different we might be, we each carry trauma that makes us more alike than we can ever realize.
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Project ApologyBy Arij Elmi & Tessellate Institute