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I have a few spiritual heroes, those giants of faith who pave roads before us. One of them is Sister @helenprejean.
Sister @helenprejean didn't know what she was getting into when she became pen pals with an inmate on death row, a story told in the movie, Dead Man Walking. Now, she's a fierce advocate against the death penalty.
On this week's episode of #EverythingHappens, I speak with @helenprejean about finding purpose, something I'm SO HUNGRY FOR.
I took a little podcast break to drive our airstream stateside and get Zach enrolled in Kindergarten (what!!!).
But now I'M BACK and have some amazing conversations to share with you for our fall season.
But now I'M BACK and have some amazing conversations to share with you for our fall season.
Like today’s #EverythingHappens episode with one of my new favorite people, @noraborealis. You may know of her from her gorgeous @TEDTalks on grief or her hilarious podcast, @ttfapodcast.
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I sat down with @noraborealis to talk about the way grief surprises us. Even when you may feel like you might never “get over” what happened, love is there somehow.
Nora shows us why it’s time to reframe how we think about a happy ending. Listen in:
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Nora shows us why it’s time to reframe how we think about a happy ending. Listen in:
katebowler.com/podcasts/nora-…
Friends! Today wraps up our #EverythingHappens Book Club for August. We looked at the book and documentary FAR FROM THE TREE by @Andrew_Solomon. Andrew looks at families that discover their child is unlike them in a significant way.
His work distinguishes between vertical and horizontal identities. Vertical identities are passed down generationally from parent to child. Like ethnicity or language or sometimes religion.
Horizontal identities are often learned from a peer group. Perhaps they are born deaf or neurodiverse or have dwarfism or Down Syndrome. Perhaps they have bipolar or have been convicted of a crime or identify as a transgender person.
Our August pick for the #EverythingHappens Book Club is @Andrew_Solomon’s Far from the Tree. This book and the corresponding film account for kids whose lives are very different than their parents.
They may have be diagnosed with autism or identify as LGBTQ or have committed a crime. He doesn’t equate these differences but rather addresses what it’s like being born in families where you are dissimilar.
Together, we will explore how we love across difference and how sometimes our family is the one we choose, not the one we were given. I hope you’ll join us as we read (or watch) this spectacular work.
katebowler.com/book-club/
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Hello friends! I snuck away from our summer airstream adventure to join you all for the #EverythingHappens Twitter Chat on #JeanVanier’s “Becoming Human.” I would love to hear your thoughts on feeling fragile, recognizing everyone else does too, and how we all need each another.
When #JeanVanier was 36, a friend showed him the horrible living conditions endured by people with disabilities. Many were institutionalized without love, community, or care.
The result of this visit for Vanier was a lifelong dedication to serving the oppressed through L’Arche, communities in which people with intellectual disabilities live among friends. #EverythingHappens
Hello my dears! Time for a little twitter chat about a chronic not cureable life based on John Green’s beautiful book, “Turtles All The Way Down.” #everythinghappens
His main character Aza opens with this line that shapes much of the narrative, “You think you’re the painter, but you’re the canvas” (2).
Do you ever feel that way? How much control do you feel you have over your life? #everythinghappens
Do you ever feel that way? How much control do you feel you have over your life? #everythinghappens
Control is a drug and we’re all hooked. But what about those of us who don’t fit the neat narrative of sick to healed? How do you live with the uncertainty of your mental, physical, emotional health? #EverythingHappens
#EverythingHappens for a Reason comes out in paperback next week and it reminds me the incredible conversations I’ve had since. Over the next few days, I’d love to share some bits of advice I received that helped me keep moving forward when there was no way back.
1. It is easier to be trite about suffering than embrace our own fragility.
“Our own fragility is terrifying to us. It’s easier to say: ‘Well, there’s a reason it’s happened to THAT person.’ We don’t want to be next.” -Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber (@Sarcasticluther)
“Our own fragility is terrifying to us. It’s easier to say: ‘Well, there’s a reason it’s happened to THAT person.’ We don’t want to be next.” -Pastor Nadia Bolz Weber (@Sarcasticluther)
2. Facing the truth means allowing to let it take up space.
“Truth has weight and dimension to it. When you deliver bad news, you have to allow it come into the room and take up space.” Pediatric Oncologist Ray Barfield reflects on what kids with cancer teach him about honesty.
“Truth has weight and dimension to it. When you deliver bad news, you have to allow it come into the room and take up space.” Pediatric Oncologist Ray Barfield reflects on what kids with cancer teach him about honesty.
It's my Book Birthday for #EverythingHappens today! One year of sharing words that shape my life. I want to take this opportunity to thank other people who have crafted words that help us all live and breathe and die.
From the unforgettable @erfinchie from @GreysABC:
“Instead of saying that someone we love is battling, beating, fighting, winning, or losing, why don’t we just tell the truth?
We get sick. We take our medicine. Some of us live. Some die.”
“Instead of saying that someone we love is battling, beating, fighting, winning, or losing, why don’t we just tell the truth?
We get sick. We take our medicine. Some of us live. Some die.”
From the unstoppable @GlennonDoyle from @togetherrising:
"Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved."
"Grief is love's souvenir. It's our proof that we once loved."
My friends and family held me together by putting me to work. They encouraged me to finish my next academic work, to write the memoir, to start the podcast. Each project became an act of living into a future I couldn’t quite yet imagine. 
This fall has been a season of working yet again—and I’m thrilled to announce…. The EVERYTHING HAPPENS Podcast will be back for season two mid-November. Subscribe to be notified when the first episode drops:
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I’d love to know—who would you like to hear from on a future #everythinghappens episode?
