Bo La Boss, you posthilled Alton's, welcome to the blind by podcast.

I'm over in part, Chigal.

I'm in part, though, doing some writing.

But I have a fantastic guest this week, who I spoke to recently in Waterford.

His name is Michael Harding.

He's someone I really look up to.

He's a writer, storyteller, he's a philosopher.

He's published lots of books in his career, fiction and nonfiction.

He used to be the writer and residence in the Abbey Theatre, and in Trinity College,

he trained to be a priest and then left that vocation to become a Buddhist for 17 years.

He's someone who connects with spirituality through art.

And he's someone who I'd look up to as an elder, I suppose you'd say, and we had a cracker

of a chat in a beautiful theatre in Waterford that had the most magnificent sound.

You wouldn't even think there was an audience there.

And we spoke about Christianity, Buddhism, poetry, literature, and the suffering of being

alive.

He has a new book out at the moment called All the Things Left Unsaid, and he's also on

tour, touring this book in theaters up and down the country.

And if you want to see his dates, go to Michael Harding, Dada Yee, and you'll see all

his gigs in one place, which is something I should start on to be honest.

So before I get into the chat, he speaks about a story that I read out.

So before this live gig, I debuted a new short story about a man who rescues and abills

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