
Ai-jen Poo — This Is Our (Caring) Revolution
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is Your Childhood Religious or Spiritual to You?
I was really fortunate to be raised in a multigenerational household, and where my grandparents played a profound role in teaching me very practical things like potty training me. I didn't have much contact with religion, but i did find a spiritual practice through my activism. My grandmother's notion of family was always so expansive and boundless to me. And i think id watched that and absorbed that as an ethic. Hum, i also feel like your work now, in carrying across generations, you know, it feels to me like that an experience of that and awareness of that, a passion about it, was also in the fabric of your childhood with your grandparentsd. That feels spiritual
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