I'm Alan Olga and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating. Everybody's wounded.

We're politically wounded or emotionally wounded or

or psychically wounded.

And you and I have had wounds in our families and say, how do you survive this?

How do you get beyond this? And then you do. The wound is the place where the light enters you.

The light says, you will get through this and you will be

different and you will be improved. And that's really what I mean by the value of the wound.

You don't feel whole unless you're wounded.

That's my old friend Roger Rosenblatt.

His new book, intriguingly titled A Steinway on the Beach,

is about that great mystery of how being wounded emotionally or physically is both an

inescapable part of life and a chance to illuminate it.

It's seeing the wound is the place where the light enters.

I'm really eager to talk to you about this extraordinary book, Roger.

I feel like it's a kind of a shared meditation in which you let me into your mind while stories flashed across your brain and irony, wit, flashes of poetry, old song lyrics to suddenly have new meaning.

You lit up my mind a lot with this, I really appreciate it.

Alan, when you get into my mind you improve the neighborhood.

Well, that's very nice.

The whole book seems to be inspired by one line of poetry from the Persian poet Rumi

from the 13th century.

The wound is where the light comes in. A wonderful notion when you think about it when the book

thinks about it for a while and I get the impression you've thought about it for

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