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Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man.

A treasured figure on the national storytelling circuit, his voice inhabits an unusual space

where homegrown Minnesota meets Dante and Shakespeare.

And his stories are revealing of both life's humor and its ruptures.

He was born with one disabled arm, and then a midlife motorcycle accident paralyzed the

other.

But then again, being so called able bodied Kevin Kling points out is always only a temporary

condition.

We take in his wisdom on the losses we're born with and the losses we grow into, and

on why we turn these things into stories.

The heart is an instrument once broken, never repairs the same.

I use the word trauma in my work because a loss is a loss, whether it's a heart, a limb,

a promise, a person.

It's all loss and it's all trauma and it's all things that are broken that can't be cured.

You can't go back, but you can heal it, and that's an important thing to know.

I'm Christa Tippett and this is on being.

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