We Learn From Our Pain and Our Loss and It's Right and Beautiful

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i tread lightly always with the notion that our suffering will somehow be redeemed, partly from growing up with a grandmother who had endured the kind of suffering that is actually irredeemable. So i absolutely think that our losses do sometimes teach us incredibly valuable lessons. And all of them, in some ways, can teach us, even when the lessons are painful and not strictly speaking, redemptive,. They they teach us what it means to be human.

Ryan talks to Kathryn Schulz about teaching your kids how to wrestle with the inevitability of loss and grief, protecting those around us and passing along a better world for your kids, and more.

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent book is Lost & Found, a memoir that grew out of “Losing Streak,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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