Fred Penner: Music That Makes Us

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fred Penner is a Canadian sensation whose television show and hit songs like “The Cat Came Back” was part of so many of our childhoods. But what few of us knew was how much he understood the pain of growing up. He lost his alcoholic father and his 12-year-old sister in the same year. He turned to music. And his gentle wisdom and songs have invited us—children and adults alike—to stay curious and kind in a hard world. In this episode, Kate and Fred discuss: Music as the language of the heart How to speak to the heart of a kid Plus, we get to hear Fred sing some of his favorite songs I have so many memories singing along to Fred’s music as a kid and felt so lucky to get to speak to him today. CW: alcoholism, death of sibling *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to receive blessings in your inbox every week. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. We are going to practice the season of Advent together. Download a free Advent guide, here. Introducing THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days (releasing February 14, 2023). Learn more, pre-order, and receive a free pennant, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hey, just before we begin, I wanted to let you know that we have a free advent guide available on my website.
0:06.8	And by that, I mean, we have an enormous, gorgeous, free, giant ebook thing if you want it.
0:12.4	So it's something to help us ground our days and hope and love this Christmas season.
0:18.0	So if that's something you want, go to KateBuller.com slash advent and it's all yours.
0:31.2	Sometimes we don't know exactly where our lives will take us.
0:34.9	Okay, most of the time.
0:36.7	But we can sort of feel ourselves through.
0:40.1	We just hear a bit of someone singing our heart's dumb song and suddenly our feet pick up the pace.
0:48.1	It's strange and incredible when we have that feeling.
0:52.3	Or when other people know how to stir it in us.
0:55.8	And at least to me, that feeling always seems like a young self.
1:02.0	The one kindled by a little bit of wonder.
1:05.2	The one that thought, oh, what a great idea.
1:07.9	I'd love to be curious or I'm very, very interested now in this thing that my older self would have overlooked in favor of Instagram.
1:17.3	So that's what I wondered if we could talk about today.
1:20.7	That heart song feeling.
1:23.4	And I just want to bring you back to a moment from my tiny baby self when I was absolutely in love
1:31.9	with a television show host and musician named Fred Penner.
1:39.0	Fred Penner is just Canadian gold.
1:43.1	He had a television show, obviously called Fred Penner's Place,
1:47.1	where he would show up in the woods and he would crawl through a log
1:50.7	and behold, he was somewhere very interesting and he would sing songs with such gentleness on his guitar.
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