The Life and Times of a Grandma

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i'm always telling stories about my grandma they are irresistible people grandma's they are she sounds remarkable i mean what she endured and what she was able to become is a story in itself isn't it. just interrupting you for a moment to ask if you would consider subscribing to my patreon friends of the wintering sessions get an extended edition of the podcast a day early and exclusive discounts on my courses and events most of all you help to keep the podcast running go to patreon.com forward slash catrin may do take a look now back to the show so i want to hear about your grandma too um i don't know that the language you've you've conquered them maybe or

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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