Bonus: Chop Wood, Carry Water
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday morning, like many of you, I woke up to the devastating news that a convicted rapist with countless indictments has been re-elected to lead our country. As I sit with this heavy reality, I'm thinking of all of you—especially women in difficult relationships and those in marginalized communities facing fresh threats to our freedoms.
Today, I turn to a Zen Buddhist saying to help me keep going: "Chop wood, carry water." It reminds me that there is nothing you must do in life other than what must be done. So today, I stare into the void, speak to women, reassure my son, and cuddle my animals.
Chop wood, carry water.
And later, I will continue the fight.
Please know that I will never stop fighting for you, for us, for our children and their futures.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.1 | Hey, everyone. I am recording this on Wednesday morning, November 6th at 849 a.m. And the election results are in, and what I consider to be the |
| 1:02.9 | worst has happened. And if you're listening to this podcast, my guess is that you feel similarly. |
| 1:10.0 | And I had a podcast episode all lined up for today, |
| 1:15.1 | and it just felt wrong to really air anything other than an acknowledgement of what has |
| 1:26.0 | happened in the last 24 hours. Also to say that however you are |
| 1:32.1 | processing this and whatever you're feeling is correct, is okay. I know people right now who are |
| 1:43.5 | having trouble getting out of bed. I know people who are |
| 1:47.1 | clinging to hope. My ex-husband texted me this morning and said that he was rereading |
| 1:52.5 | Victor Frankel's man's search for meaning, which is about finding hope from a man who was in a concentration camp in Austria during World War II. |
| 2:05.5 | And that's what he needs right now. He needs to cling to hope. And I have no idea. I am numb. I'm in shock. |
| 2:16.2 | I really honestly didn't believe this would happen. I certainly didn't |
| 2:20.2 | believe it would happen in the numbers that it happened and the demographics that it happened from. |
| 2:31.0 | I am really, really sad to live in a country that really doesn't value the lives of women, of queer people, trans people, other marginalized groups. |
| 2:46.9 | And I shouldn't be shocked by it because this country was built on the foundation of just that. |
| 2:54.4 | This country was built on the foundation of slavery and genocide and white supremacy. |
| 3:00.5 | And here we are. |
| 3:01.6 | And so, you know, one could say that the experiment failed. |
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