Brendan Kelly
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164 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Brendan Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can, you know, you can start to transcend some of those moment to moment fluctuations that are so gripping.
in the rest of life and think about meaning, think about continuity and think about these bigger issues that tend to get lost when you've got, you know, 120 emails to answer per day in mid-life.
And so the term gerotranscendence is about recognising that as something that can happen.
Yeah, okay, well, it could be kicking in early in your case.
But it does build, and I think the phrase gets meaning as you move through life and move more into that zone, with all respect, and it can become more intense.
It's only one thing that's happening, it's only one phrase, but it is a nice one, I like it.
Yeah, it's a good one.
Because it links this sense of understanding, this overarching sense of meaning to the accumulation of life experiences.
Yeah.
Well, it's a hard one because a lot of people don't have that many regrets.
They have made decisions and have not spent an enormous amount of time wondering what would have happened if they made the other decision.
Yeah.
Well, it tends to bubble up because different people are having different conversations.
They're coming in at other angles and asking questions.
It's a more natural setting for conversations rather than the one-to-one interrogation.
Yeah, look, Brendan, that is just so important that we kind of retain space for these experiences without saying a word.
And anyone listening, the most beautiful expression of this, with which many people will be familiar, will be Seamus Heaney's poem, While the Others Were Away at Mass, about the memory of peeling potatoes with his mother.
Absolutely, yes.
An entirely non-verbal form of being together, a solidarity, a connection, a communication, a communion with each other in a sense that is so beautifully expressed.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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