“Finding sanity” theme: safety
“To be sane is to be safe: if we aren’t, we can’t be creative, can’t laugh, can’t hope. Many of us do not feel safe, so my daily search for sanity envisions a safer world for all, and a provides a safe place for us to grow together.” —Laura Joyce Davis
Episode 93: audacious
“You don't have to wear a mask because you have generations of privilege and you have generations of medical care and you have generations of resources. So if you get sick, it's not really a problem for you. But nevermind that you're spreading this.”
Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman calls herself an agitator, and activist, and an educator. In this riveting installment of our essays featuring the women of FIERCE: ESSAYS BY AND ABOUT AUDACIOUS WOMEN, Edissa tells us about the inspiration she found from a 19th-century Jewish feminist suffragist, and what she's doing to fight systemic oppression right now.
Episode 86: special
“Perhaps I was just too complex for the Enneagram.”
For the past two weeks, we've been looking at this time through the lens of the Enneagram--but the idea for this series began as a joke. Today Laura shares her own rocky road with the Enneagram, and why she's finally come around to believing that we need it now more than ever before.
Special thanks to Anne & Tyler Elliston, Anne Leaché, and Emily & Donovan Chandler for becoming supporters of Shelter in Place.
Episode 67: circling back
“If you want to solve it, you gotta pay for it.”
Laura circles back with Muoki Musau, whose perspective began this week of amplifying and celebrating Black voices. In the first conversation they've ever had--a conversation that begins and ends with laughter--they agree together to talk about racism in America, and Muoki shares his vision for a better way forward.
Episode 76: pandemic summer
“This virus is not going to go away. I believe as far as it's going to become endemic. That means it's going to become a natural part of our environment.”
For over 40 years, Dr. Jose Luis Sanchez has been working in infectious disease epidemiology, outbreak investigation, and applied biomedical research. In today's episode, he answers questions about COVID-19, including whether or not we should schedule that summer travel, and why the virus has hit some populations so much harder than others.
Disclaimer: Dr. Sanchez is not representing the Department of Defense or the US military establishment; his opinions are his own. In this way, he cannot be held liable or in violation of any D.o.D./U.S. military statutes or regulations that he may not agree with or be held liable or in contempt in any way when he mentioned that this country should be moving to have a "Health Care Act" akin to the Social Security Act, which enables all Americans to have equitable and high-quality access to medical care.
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Episode 70: redefining sanity
“We define our words, but they don’t define us.”
Tatiana Mac, an engineer, writer, and speaker who is thinking a lot about the weight words carry, prompts Laura to redefine the daily sanity she's seeking in each episode, and to explore how that pursuit is evolving.
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Episode 48: open for business
“This is not a one and done decision, but rather a process that includes regular re-evaluation so that the dial can be turned up or down in response to how the pandemic unfolds with time.”
Over the past week, many states have lifted their shelter in place orders at least partially. Others have put in place measures more extreme than before. In a time when even the coronavirus has become political, how do we find our way forward without contributing to further polarization as a nation? Laura looks to infectious disease doctor Joyce Sanchez for perspective during this confusing time.