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This is the Moth Review Hour from PRX, and I'm Catherine Burns. This week we have four stories about the

push and the pull. Life's tension and pressures, and creative ways people find to manage them.

From a mishap at a funeral to trouble an marathon course, to handling anger. But first,

there's nothing quite like a toddler melting down to push someone's buttons.

Recorded at live performance, at Alice Telly Hallitley Consider for the performing arts

in York City. Here's the poet, R.A. Villanueva.

In principle, sharing the world with a daughter, raising a daughter that is

strong willed, headstrong, it should be a gift. And so when my wife and I found out that we were

going to have a daughter, we immediately started making lists of names that would be fitting.

Names that would usher into this world of being some kind of groundbreaking trail-bracing catalyst,

someone who would change things. And so we ended up in antiquity. And we started laughing and

thinking about an epic poem by Homer. And in this epic poem, the title character is named Odysseus.

He's the one who fights the monsters. He's out for all this time. But as we started thinking and

talking and laughing, we realized that actually that the heart of the story is his wife.

His wife's name is Penelope. She has ingenuity and creativity. And she owns her role and lives it

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