Author of The Middle Passage : From Misery to Meaning in Midlife & Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places

Cross-Genre writer Fenton Johnson discusses living as a “Solitary”, his recent book At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life & its relevance for those whose lives have been transformed by physical disability while alone.

A data-driven Public Health clarification/discussion with historical instances of previous American medical misconceptions, about how Covid isn't over for those with physical disability related medical vulnerability.

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A Judaic perspective on becoming physically disabled & being part of the Jewish Community of Amherst. Irish Lit scholar {Samuel Beckett & James Joyce}, family farmer and Reconstructionist Rabbi Ben Weiner, does a deep dive into the theological/scriptural foundation of their “Non-Exclusionary” policy.

Executive Director of the Disability Policy Consortium of Massachusetts, Colin Killick, offers updates & commentary on discrepancy in critical health care for the physically disabled during the pandemic & its aftermath, while reviewing his newly drafted legislative reforms. With a grad degree from the Kennedy School of Gov’t @ Harvard U, Colin is a trail blazing  advocate overturning discrimination against those with disability in medical access.

MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient , short story writer Andre Dubus ll, was hit by a car on a highway in Massachusetts @ age 50, sustaining disabling injuries that disabled him until his death 12 years later.

Andrea Ivanov-Craig, author of Moving Toward Redemption: Spirituality & Disability in the Late Writings of Andre Dubus ll  while Jep Streit was a participant in his weekly short story workshop for years. (The son of Andre Dubus ll, novelist Andre Dubus lll, is featured in Ep. 2 of this podcast Such Kindness.)

Books: Sympathetic Magic, No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012, Dusty Angel, All My Mothers and Fathers: A Memoir.

Bob Waldinger, MD, Zen Priest; Tom Bachman, Practice Leader of HANK Sangha on spiritual practice inclusivity.

Transforming PTSD into Post Traumatic Growth.