The Power of Fear

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I'm really glad to have trust in being vulnerable because to me that is a life scale actually yes and a vital one. some ways I feel a little sorry for people who who are so afraid of those moments you know like I'm I get fearful of heights and spiders and all kinds of things but what I don't get afraid of is being afraid like I do. It's interesting to tell your dad's story in that context because he had his own huge vulnerabilities as well as being this like exceptionally mindful parent he also had his his kind of Achilles heel didn't he which was addiction Yes.

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to writer and poet Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies.

Unable to speak up as a child, Cole talks about how she learned to find her voice amid a family of gifted talkers and storytellers. Cole describes her father and grandmother as inspirational figures who nevertheless were marked by the generational trauma experienced by so many African Americans. But from this emerges Cole’s own, unique spiritual account of the world, overseen by a God who lives in our hurting, imperfect bodies, and who sees us as we are.

Cole is one of the most lyrical, perceptive and moving writers of her generation, at once cerebral and earthly, and always rooted in the body. We talk about Cole’s hair turning grey as a child, her wise grandmother and inspirational father, and the moments when she came to realise that both of them needed her care.

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