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🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey Parker. Hi, Krista. How are you? I'm fine. Good. Yeah. So Parker, I did not |
0:10.2 | overthink this. I didn't, you know, the living the questions is really truly |
0:13.7 | conversational and not the usual preparation I do. I just want it to be like |
0:20.0 | it is when you and I get on the phone together. Yes. And we're gonna be putting |
0:25.6 | the soul and depression show out again also. Yeah. And there's the story you tell |
0:33.2 | about your depression, which you told me in the show, which you've written about |
0:36.6 | that no one ever forgets is about the friend that you you were depressed and |
0:43.9 | kind of unable to see beyond right? You're one is so trapped and it is so dark |
0:50.8 | all around. And words failed and all the all the things people said that were |
0:57.1 | trying to be helpful just made it worse. And you tell the story of this one |
1:01.7 | friend who somehow knew to come to you and he didn't try to talk and he didn't |
1:07.7 | tell you it was gonna be better, but he rubbed your feet and that somehow he |
1:11.6 | had touched the one place in you that still had feeling. And you know, when I |
1:15.5 | think about that image, I just wonder what is the equivalent of what we can do in |
1:22.6 | this culture right now to find the places that can still feel comfort and to |
1:30.9 | what's our communal equivalent of rubbing each other's feet? Well, I have to say |
1:38.2 | first of all that I don't think anything can take the place of a good foot robe. There's |
1:46.3 | just something about, there's as many people know as you know, there's just |
1:52.6 | something about you know that kind of bodily care from a trusted person, which |
2:01.0 | Bill Taber certainly was for me the late Bill Taber man I always want to |
2:06.4 | honor for helping to save my life. There's something about that kind of touch |
2:13.0 | that's just that reconnects you to the human community. When you're in a state |
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