how little there is to know of the body
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that we would emerge from the water
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never a complete new there inside is a
00:12
facsimile of older grief they say the
00:16
body inherits memory maybe it’s just the
00:19
newer pain learning to understand us
00:21
through us trauma as a wire through the
00:25
generations we are not alone in this I
00:29
repeat than inhale each new flush of air
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mapping out the parts of me that remain
00:34
hidden we are not alone in this I have
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to tell myself that this too is a
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practice in faith and the day the
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coroner will hold my heart in their hand
00:46
what would we call it a collapse engine
00:51
out of commission parts what happens to
00:55
the great well of ideas all this
00:58
imagination where does it go
01:00
I want to believe joy is inherited to
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when they want us to have this as well
01:09
doesn’t everyone you love deserve the
01:12
entirety of you one day I will be gone
01:17
from here and one day you will too I
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grieve for you already but I believe
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grief is an honest gift it’s how we
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learn to hold the whole of a person so
01:29
much of loss is counted inside of the
01:32
absences there’s nothing missing when it
01:36
comes to any of you it’s your fullness
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that overwhelms me the rich and varied
01:43
life of a person all of its requisite
01:45
pleasures in madness
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maybe there’s a way we learn how to live
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with this maybe we find the place that
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understands how to love us and our pain
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in equal measures in there is a greater
02:02
joy I have to believe it is one equal to
02:09
the weight of our living
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you
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[Applause]
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