Terry Tempest Williams

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630 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin · Terry Tempest Williams · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And if I looked forward, it was terrifying.

Because the people I loved wouldn't be there.

So I learned very quickly, if I'm present, if it's here, then that's what we can trust.

And it will take care of us.

So I think

The present moment allows us to trust what will follow and to trust that the past brought us here.

You know, I remember when I turned 50, I was in Rugarero, a genocide survivor's village in Rwanda.

And we had just painted the village with the children.

It was...

an unspeakable sadness in the village.

And Lily Yeh, an artist, barefoot artist, brought all these paints.

We were in there to help with the Red Cross and creating with the village a genocide memorial.

after the village had been painted, it was motorcycles, it was five-legged cows with huge udders, you know, it was flowers.

All the children started dancing and singing.

And I remember dancing and singing with 50 children, you know, just... It was... I've never known such joy in the midst of such unspeakable loss.

And I thought...

Here we are.

This is the present moment.

This is what the children know.

And I thought, what in my life has ever brought me here?

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