Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Great British Butterfly Hunt
Imene: My mother had a mental breakdown when i was seven and my brother john was eight. She went away to a mental hospital, which, in those days, you often come back from. And she did come back, and she had sort of recovered. But it all came crashing down in nineteen eighty two, when i was thirty five, because my mother died at the age of sixty eight. I found then, to my absolute amazement, that i could not mourn her. Imene: We like meaning making, don't we? That's why we have ceremonies for christening. Most of all, we have ceremonies for marriage or funerals. You can get people involved in...
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