Listen Again: Kwame Alexander—To Be Loved Like That
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Our most precious relationships are often our most complicated, aren’t they? Poet and bestselling author Kwame Alexander wrote an honest book of poems and essays that name the difficult and beautiful and heart-wrenching conversations we have (or should be having) with the people we love and with the ones who love us.
In this conversation, Kwame and Kate discuss:
- How we can’t outrun our grief
- How our own parents love us in the ways they want to be loved, but maybe not in the ways we need—and how we find our ways back to each other
- The desire to share with our kids how we love, where we fail, where we tried, and who we were before we were their parent
CW: death of parent, divorce
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| 0:56.0 | Hello my friends. I'm Kate Bowler and this is everything happens. |
| 1:02.0 | Our most precious relationships are also our most complicated, aren't they? |
| 1:07.0 | Ugh, the relationships we have with parents who we don't fully understand or who don't fully understand us. |
| 1:15.0 | Or with our partners or former partners. |
| 1:19.0 | With our friends who keep making the same mistakes. |
| 1:22.0 | Bless them. bless their hearts. |
| 1:24.0 | With our children, when they're little, |
| 1:26.0 | and then, you know, again with them, |
| 1:28.0 | when they become fully formed adults. |
| 1:31.0 | And with ourselves, as we change and grow and wrestle with our mistakes and |
| 1:36.6 | regrets and hopes. My guest today has a lot to teach us about how to love and be loved. |
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