Mark Nepo
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918 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jan
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And he could speak, but it was so difficult, he just didn't try.
And so I found myself in a very busy, he didn't have a separate room, and I was in a very busy hospital setting and beeping and TVs and clattering.
And all of a sudden, I'm feeding him applesauce with a spoon.
and it was sad and beautiful and bittersweet and all of a sudden it was my whole life and that was putting a spoon in his mouth without hitting his teeth and he was uh you know getting the applesauce and i'm crying and um and there we are and again going back to you can't prepare for these things but because my heart was open
All of a sudden, I was in a moment of wonder.
All of a sudden, not because I was looking for it, but because I held nothing back and I gave everything to that moment.
I suddenly was in the moment of every adult child who ever fed a dying parent.
And I wasn't alone.
By being thoroughly who I was, called to by love, not by some exercise or because, oh, I'll try this.
Just all of a sudden, I tripped into this amazing, inexplicable space.
And it's changed how I think about resilience.
I think another form of resilience is
is when we are thoroughly who we are.
So if I feel your pain, I am in suddenly the river of everyone who ever felt pain.
If I feel your wonder, I'm in the river of everyone who ever felt wonder.
And by being who we are, gaining access to the kinship of all things is an amazing form of resilience.
Well, thank you.
And I also feel it's important that in facing these openings that we can't do it alone.
And we don't have to do it all at once.
Like, I may find, like, oh, there it is, but I don't know if I can do it today.
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