
[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Hung on for Four Years, Without Any Sense of Meaning, but That I Wanted to Live
i lived for four years after your brother's death without any hope at all. And then you met miss irving, who helped you work with words in a whole new way. I think there were two paths i found to meeting. One was writing, through the guidance of this teacher. The first other path for me was social activism. So when i was eighteen, i went to a miss sippi to work as a volunteer and just ended up getting arrested and beaten and kidnapped by a a murderous individual. A month after i was there, this same person who kid napped me off the highway, i murdered a theology student, jonathan daniels,. Andand that, i...
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