Megan Bontrager
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518 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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No one would come.
No, you know, they thought, Oh, it I they would tell me it's it's gonna die anyway, just bury it, just throw it throw it in the woods.
And I sat with it and this
Creature.
was just so vulnerable.
And it it died in my lap.
And the same year I lost a a a close friend of mine to die who I had I'd gone to high school with.
and I felt this sounds so bad.
I felt nothing.
And I was so tu touched and moved and devastated by this possum.
I mean I I think about this possum too long and I'll cry, but I mean
the people it's harder 'cause you have complicated relationships relationships with people, but there's an innocence to animals, I think.
And the earnestness in our connection to them that just is different.
It's something we can control and it's something that feels unjust and
wrong that we can have some
effect on, you know, you were able to
give give that small creature that was helpless gentleness and you know if we can't
help uh the people in Gaza directly, you know, we can alchemize our sorrow for them into being gentle to helpless things in our everyday lives, I think.
Yes, I I got your email with these questions and I was so excited.
One of my best friends, her name is Hester Steele, and she wrote a cosmic horror novel called The Faceless Thing We Adore.
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