Thanks For Being Here - Shiva Speech for Poppy

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's Thanks for Being Here comes from an anonymous, young college graduate who shared words at her grandfather's shiva. In the midst of the world unfolding at a mad pace around us, she reminds us how one person's presence can transform a family. Her "Poppy" saw her critical eye as rooted in love and justice, encouraged her activism, and promised that nothing she could ever share with him would shock "a Navy man". What struck us most was her realization that the traits she thought made her the "black sheep" were actually the values her grandfather had cultivated in everyone—peace, love, community—manifesting differently across generations. This is exactly what Thanks for Being Here is meant to highlight: how profoundly we affect one another. 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

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Thanks for being here, a short weekly pod to remind us of the many
0:05.4	essential and beautiful ways we affect one another. Every Sunday, I'll read a submission from a
0:12.1	listener of Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Could be wedding vows or a bat mitzvah toast, a eulogy, or
0:17.3	retirement speech. We believe this is probably the loveliest way to tap into our better
0:22.8	selves and remember our highest values. We encourage you to share this podcast each week with one
0:29.1	person you love. Maybe someone you miss and need to bring closer, someone you want to feel
0:34.5	your appreciation or admiration or both. This is thanks for being here.
0:47.3	Today's thanks for being here is anonymous. It was sent in by the mom of a young college graduate
0:52.9	who put some words together to share
0:55.2	during her grandfather's Shiva. I found this particularly inspiring, given the set of world
1:01.6	events that are unfolding at a mad pace around us. So enjoy. Few things are a more apt reminder that life goes on than listening to your grandfather's
1:16.0	funeral on Zoom after missing your connecting plane by a minute.
1:21.2	The gate agents will not care about your plight or the fact that you were the designated
1:25.9	representative for all of the grandchildren.
1:28.4	If there's one thing our family is good at, and this is something that Poppy was especially good at,
1:33.9	it's knowing that sometimes you just have to laugh at the ridiculousness of it all.
1:38.4	Thank you all for allowing me the additional time to share my reflections of the last few weeks
1:43.2	and from a lifetime of knowing
1:44.9	Poppy. I've chosen to welcome the blessing of getting to rewrite this eulogy after getting to
1:51.3	hear my family share and the unique opportunity, however tragic, to find gratitude for someone's
1:57.3	life in the moment of their death. I often felt that Poppy saw and understood me for traits that I wasn't sure the rest of my
2:04.4	family saw.
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