Grief House - Portals

In this episode Sascha and I perform an act of meta-trust by allowing each other to tell our early experiences of blind trust. We (or at least I) find it surprising and revelatory.

We discuss God, backpacks filled with survival tools and the utility of magical thinking. We explore whether or not it is a good idea to trust wolves who hate whistling, women who do face painting at health fairs and powerful children. We look into the many ways to trust a beach, what it's like to trust our own and other people's bodies and how we can build bridges of trust for each other.

In this episode we explore loss as it pools at the feet of our fathers and our mothers. We consider the ways loss might function as an offering; could forest creatures line their nests with our downy loss? Could it be licked up and swallowed and turned into life by beings know and beyond our knowing? Could it be that our loss is not just something we need to learn to tolerate - could it be that our loss is something we need, collectively, to be well and whole? 

It's unclear - but worth looking into. We'll start right here.

In this episode (our first interview!) we talk with Alison Alstrom about yoga, goddesses, perspective and the right way to pronounce the word asana. We discus the joys and troubles of being physically manifest and why one might decide to embrace having a body despite it all. We talk about the concept of portals from the perspective of the South Indian yoga tradition Alison studies and how knowing about it changes the view from each of our windows.

In this episode we talk about feeling: charting feeling, herding feelings, feelings as landscape, feelings as Savannah cats, feelings as colorful blobs.

We discuss how we inherit and develop language to describe our feelings and the ways that language does and does not bring us closer to knowing ourselves and each other. We also consider alternate communication options for transmitting feelings - including lying in heaps on stones in the sun, and side-by-side turnip harvesting - and how long enduring friendship changes the way feelings move between people.

In this episode we explore trust – what it means to “earn trust”, the markers we use to identify people as trustworthy, and experiences and circumstances that build barriers to trust. We talk about baths as a shortcut to secure friendship, swimming in the ocean in combat boots and the particular kind of trust evoked by Millie Vanilli in the early 90’s.

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss the nature of reality, how our individual perspectives on the world shape the reality we experience and how our unique realities overlap and influence each other. We talk about fitting in, epilepsy, high school and the mind-opening value of friendship.