Bruce Feiler

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802 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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I want, so whatever it is.

And she tells me about this ritual that she does, a friend of hers who has a double mastectomy.

This is the kind of thing that organized religion would not have done, the gathering of friends.

So she invites people over.

And we're going to get together.

We'll get to this eventually.

These are the things that rituals do.

We're going to create sacred space.

We're going to show empathy.

Everybody brings comfortable clothing because it involves lots of pipes and drains, right, when you have these kinds of surgeries.

I'm speaking here as a cancer survivor myself.

And she says to me that the fundamental thing that she's listening for is the deepest fear and the highest hope.

And the purpose of the gathering, and you can call it what you want.

You can call it a ritual, a gathering, a ceremony, a celebration.

She's listening for the deepest fear and the highest hope.

And the purpose of the gathering is to turn the fear into hope.

And what she said is, my generation, we want these gatherings.

We want them when we want them.

We don't need our parents' permission, and we don't need our institutions to approve them.

We're just going to do them because it's what we are experiencing.

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