Who keeps us safe when the world shuts down? On cyclist road rage, community, and how mutual aid makes us better. #cycling #community #growth #urbanplanning

How can breaking bread--or injera--together make a place home? Last year was the year of the sourdough starter. Today we reflect on how food gives us comfort and community when we need it most. #food #community #culture #cooking

In the face of physical decline, how is “acceptance” not just “resignation” dressed up in zen clothing? After an injury forced him to step back from the sports that helped him feel young, Nate Davis started to reckon with his own aging--and explore how other people feel about their age. #aging #memoir #growth

What if life’s biggest tragedy could also be life’s greatest blessing? When lifelong ski patrol and EMT instructor Posie Mansfield lost her leg a month after she lost her husband, it seemed like everything she loved had been taken away from her. A decade later, she tells us why that loss is the greatest gift of her life. #interview #amputee #faith

“In a time when community was hard to come by, I was finding it with people from all over--people I never would have encountered in my previous life.”

Lifelong love, memory, and the things that stay with us. To start the holidays, we're mixing it up this week with a little audio drama, a reading of a short story based on the grandparents we heard about in episode 13.

What is the most important stuff we have to go through isn't stuff at all? Before the holidays, Laura takes us to an empty house in Nebraska, where the most important things she found weren't in the boxes she unpacked, but the legacy left behind.

“If I had the choice between all those things, or feeling the high of loving the work that I'm doing, I would pick loving my work. I'd pick that high first, because if you don't have that, then you just have a job.”

“What I was not prepared for was how Zoom classes would turn my kids into forgetful, lethargic grouches. I have lots to say about the challenges of distance learning, but the truth is our school troubles predate the pandemic.”