At any given time, more than 25 billion animals on this planet are confined in cages and facing slaughter. A visit to a farm animal sanctuary reveals how every animal is a unique individual that seeks freedom and forms intricate bonds in the world. How might kinship with animals that society has become accustomed to thinking about as food shift our relationships with nature and food?

Join my sister Amelia and me for a tour of PEAK (People, Earth, Animals, Kinship) Animal Sanctuary in Freedom, Indiana, to learn about life at a farm sanctuary and what it means to give animals a chance to thrive.

March 2021 marks twenty years since Marika lost her dad to pancreatic cancer. In this episode, Marika reflects on what stays, what fades, and how her family has adjusted to the absence of her father

My dad's sister Alisha died suddenly when she was seventeen, a few months before I was born. Her legacy lives in me and my sisters, those who received her organs, and in my dad's dreams.

MOLT is a collection of stories about how death features in our lives.

Luke Warford lost both of his parents in a short span of time. And in these years that have followed he’s kept going… and literally running toward life.