Common Ground
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Have you found yourself at odds with family members or close friends over diverging values? The past year has dredged up tensions over many issues — from racial justice, to proper pandemic behavior, to a highly politicized presidential election.
How do we nurture our relationships with loved ones, when the values that are central to our being are challenged?
On this episode, Stephanie Maltarich tells the story of a trip she took with her father in rural Ohio. The week they spent together outdoors highlighted the deep divides that existed in their politics and values, but their conversations around the campfire also laid some groundwork for reconciling with those divides.
If you enjoy this story...check out an episode called "The Truths We Hold."
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| 1:06.9 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 1:19.8 | The past year has created tensions that have forced many of us into difficult conversations with the people we love. |
| 1:29.0 | From racial justice to proper pandemic behavior to a highly politicized presidential election, |
| 1:36.8 | many of us have found ourselves navigating muddy waters with family and close friends. |
| 1:43.2 | But for some, difficult conversations were already the norm long before 2020. |
| 1:51.1 | So how do we nurture relationships with our loved ones when their values contradict our own? |
| 1:59.9 | On this episode, Stephanie Maltrich tells the story of a trip she took with her father in rural Ohio. |
| 2:08.6 | The week they spent together outdoors highlighted the deep divides that existed in their politics and values. |
| 2:16.6 | But their conversations around the campfire |
| 2:19.9 | also laid some groundwork for reconciling |
| 2:22.5 | with those divides. |
| 2:25.3 | I'll let Stephanie take it from here. One of my dad's favorite photos of us is from a weekend at camp when I was a toddler. |
| 2:44.5 | I'm sitting on a pile of slabby rocks around the fire pit. My feet dangle slightly above the ground. |
| 2:50.8 | I'm wearing tiny jeans in the zip |
| 2:52.4 | up hoodie. I cling to a pacifier between my lips, and unruly brown curls frame my face. I watch |
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