Together Apart: Redefining Home
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was a kid I wanted nothing more than to move out of Detroit. |
| 0:05.4 | Move somewhere like New York and make it big and then come home and all my glory. |
| 0:10.3 | But years became decades. I can't even believe we're talking two decades. And you know how it is. I got a great job, I got married and had kids, and I never made it back. |
| 0:22.0 | And now as I watch how COVID-19 ravages Detroit in my new hometown of Los Angeles, |
| 0:29.0 | I'm also aware that these decisions leave me vulnerable. I don't have the superpowers of |
| 0:35.4 | connection and community. You know the kind where your neighbors not only know |
| 0:40.4 | you, they also look out for you. These are the superpowers our grandparents |
| 0:45.6 | and great-grandparents had, the kind of connection that helped us survive. |
| 0:52.0 | So the question we're taking on on this episode of truth be told is really how do we |
| 0:56.2 | fight an enemy like COVID-19 when we can't physically be together and the way that |
| 1:01.4 | got us through tough times in the past. |
| 1:04.0 | Dare truth be told. |
| 1:05.2 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:07.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:08.1 | I really need your help. |
| 1:09.3 | I need your help. |
| 1:10.3 | I need your help. I need your help. I need your help. We've all been |
| 1:14.0 | We've all been |
| 1:17.0 | We've all been spending a lot of time on Zoom and FaceTime and phone calls, haven't we? |
| 1:28.0 | Well, before we get to our Wise One this week, I wanted to get on another Zoom call but this time with some really |
| 1:34.7 | good friends of mine Kelly Anglin Poindexter who now lives in Houston and |
| 1:38.9 | Sarah Davis my old high school doubles tennis partner who lives in Austin. |
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