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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
9038 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Ocean, the way that you do write about and around your mother is so beautiful and so honest. And there was so much love and beauty and power. And there was also some abuse. You say of the women in your family, the poison of war entered them. They passed it down to me. You also, I've heard you say in an interview, not in your writing, I don't think, but this is our species-wide endeavor.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

How do we change what happened to us into how we live better? So we were all raised, everyone on this couch has been raised by beautiful, imperfect mothers and every mother is parenting imperfectly. So how do we use this to live better? How do we move beyond anger? How do we find forgiveness, resolution, peace, power? How do we work together on this species-wide endeavor?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

How do we change what happened to us into how we live better? So we were all raised, everyone on this couch has been raised by beautiful, imperfect mothers and every mother is parenting imperfectly. So how do we use this to live better? How do we move beyond anger? How do we find forgiveness, resolution, peace, power? How do we work together on this species-wide endeavor?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

How do we change what happened to us into how we live better? So we were all raised, everyone on this couch has been raised by beautiful, imperfect mothers and every mother is parenting imperfectly. So how do we use this to live better? How do we move beyond anger? How do we find forgiveness, resolution, peace, power? How do we work together on this species-wide endeavor?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I've heard you talk about the title on Earth. We're briefly gorgeous. Can you just tell us why you chose that line? as the title?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I've heard you talk about the title on Earth. We're briefly gorgeous. Can you just tell us why you chose that line? as the title?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I've heard you talk about the title on Earth. We're briefly gorgeous. Can you just tell us why you chose that line? as the title?

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Yeah. I don't know how I'm going to say this because I wasn't planning to say this, but I'm thinking about the years before Chase and I had had conversations about what it was like for him to be And to be the only non-white passing person in our family and to be queer before we had talked about him being queer or me being queer and him having all of your books.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Yeah. I don't know how I'm going to say this because I wasn't planning to say this, but I'm thinking about the years before Chase and I had had conversations about what it was like for him to be And to be the only non-white passing person in our family and to be queer before we had talked about him being queer or me being queer and him having all of your books.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

Yeah. I don't know how I'm going to say this because I wasn't planning to say this, but I'm thinking about the years before Chase and I had had conversations about what it was like for him to be And to be the only non-white passing person in our family and to be queer before we had talked about him being queer or me being queer and him having all of your books.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I mean, I'm picturing him reading over and over again, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and your first book of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. And I'm just thinking about him reading those books and handing them to me and

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I mean, I'm picturing him reading over and over again, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and your first book of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. And I'm just thinking about him reading those books and handing them to me and

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I mean, I'm picturing him reading over and over again, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and your first book of poetry, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. And I'm just thinking about him reading those books and handing them to me and

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I just want to thank you because I know that you were mothering him during that time, that your work was mothering him and showing him who he was and what he could be and all of the beauty of him. And so thank you for that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I just want to thank you because I know that you were mothering him during that time, that your work was mothering him and showing him who he was and what he could be and all of the beauty of him. And so thank you for that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

I just want to thank you because I know that you were mothering him during that time, that your work was mothering him and showing him who he was and what he could be and all of the beauty of him. And so thank you for that.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. And I do also just want to say that I will, you mentioned in the beginning that at some point Chase will lose me. When I am dying and you are saying goodbye to me, I will be remembering this hour.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. And I do also just want to say that I will, you mentioned in the beginning that at some point Chase will lose me. When I am dying and you are saying goodbye to me, I will be remembering this hour.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

That's right. And I do also just want to say that I will, you mentioned in the beginning that at some point Chase will lose me. When I am dying and you are saying goodbye to me, I will be remembering this hour.

We Can Do Hard Things
Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong (and Chase Melton) (Best Of)

This will be something that I will remember. It's big. Together in our last moments. Ocean, thank you.