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Devendra Banhart — ‘When Things Fall Apart’

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Love That Will Not Die

The father of a two year old talks about turning on the television and unexpectedly seeing the bombing of the federal building in oklahoma city. He says that in the past, he was able to distance himself from other people's suffering, but since he's become a father, things have changed. "This kinship with the suffering of others, this inability to continue to regard it from afar, is the covery of our soft spot," writes Peme sholdron....

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