Willow Defebaugh

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874 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Willow Defebaugh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Maria Popova on Turning Matter Into Meaning · 12 May 2026 podcast

And also, when you say one woman, you mean one woman, because it's all you.

You have written that humanity is here to make meaning out of matter.

Do you think that's a gift or a burden?

Not to hand you a binary gift.

To make meaning out of matter is our destiny.

Just because these have been two different sort of threads in this conversation, like, how do you perceive the difference between identity and the self?

So how do you separate the soul from personality?

I had someone once define, you know, actually it was my mother.

She defined integrity that way.

Because integrity is showing up as yourself in every situation.

I was going to say integral.

Oh, that also makes me think of what Diane Ackerman shared last night around the universe.

It's the one verse.

Both scientific and poetic.

I want to close this beautiful conversation with a word that is also somewhat central to traversal, which is love.

You have this beautiful line where you write that enough might be love's other name.

How are you thinking about love right now for you and your life?

And I think that this equating of love and enough is so profound because I think, you know, to know that we are here in the uncertainty of everything.

And to not fall in love with the narrative or the performance of the other.

Beautiful question to end on.

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