Dear Sugars Live: The Great Reckoning

Dear Sugars

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Dear, Advice, Sugar, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond, Wbur, Boston

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dear Sugars returns to Portland, Oregon, for another epic live show. Special guests Mitchell S. Jackson and Rebecca Skloot share the stage with the Sugars to tell stories of personal reckoning, and to answer letters dealing with transgressions of love, friendship, the self, and so much more.

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. The sugars are here, speaking
0:16.1	straight into your ears. I'm Steve Almond. I'm Cheryl Strayed. This is Dear Sugar's.
0:23.7	Oh dear, someone, won't you please? Share some bit of sweetness with me. I check my mailbox
0:41.5	everyday for a bit of sugar that you'll send my way.
0:54.4	Hi Cheryl. Hi Steve. Hi Portland, Oregon.
1:09.6	Hi revolution hall and hello wonderly and hello everyone here. Thanks for joining us tonight for our Dear Sugar
1:18.9	Summer Party. So you thought that you were here to have fun. You know we like to kind of keep things
1:31.7	sort of surprising and hostile and hostile. So our theme today is the great reckoning. The great
1:39.6	lighthearted reckoning. So what is reckoning to you Steve? Well reckoning is taking account.
1:50.4	Reckoning is that long difficult stare back at your mistakes, your transgressions, your delusions,
1:57.8	and sometimes your dark teachers as you would say. Yeah. Wild is the whole book is a reckoning I
2:05.0	think. And in fact when I decided to take the hike on the Pacific Coast Rail, I don't know if
2:10.7	any of you guys are aware that I did that. But what happened? I haven't read the book. Those of you,
2:16.7	yeah. Moose okay. Yeah. Well the book is always better. But you know so we when we were talking about
2:25.5	this theme, Steve and I shared with each other what were the times that you had a reckoning. And of
2:30.1	course my mind went to that time, you know where I felt that I'd squandered my ambition and my writing
2:38.2	and my intelligence and all of the kind of positive things about me. I reached that bottom moment
2:42.8	in my life that I think many of you in the room have been at one point or another as well. And
2:48.2	that was the reckoning. What if you know you have to change your life that beautiful,
2:52.3	okay, line that has really rung throughout my life. And that's when I knew I had to do something
2:59.6	that would compel me to do that. And I decided to take that long walk. And that whole, you know,
3:05.8	those 90-40s on the trail, everyone of them was a reckoning. It was a reckoning physically.
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