2018-05-03
22 分钟Modern.
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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.
This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.
I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.
When she was 27 years old, Stephanie Saldanya thought she'd found her calling.
But at a monastery in the syrian desert, she discovered that calling was something very different than she'd imagined.
Stephanie's essay is signs, wonders and fates fulfilled.
It's read by Linda Cardellini, known for her work in bloodline mad men and freaks and geeks.
The first time I saw Frederic, he was wearing a long monastic habit and carrying a battered teapot.
Would you like some tea?
He asked.
When I said yes, he smiled and lifted the teapot high, tipping it slightly so the tea poured in a long, steaming arc.
The man clearly poured a lot of tea.
At 27, I had just arrived in Syria on a year long fellowship to study the prophet Jesus in Islam.
I was living in a dilapidated room in the old city of Damascus with decaying wooden doors, a non flushing toilet, and a 73 year old armenian neighbor.
This was six years ago, when refugees from the war in Iraq were flooding the city and my arabic studies were progressing at a painfully slow pace.
The cacophony of Damascus life exhausted me, not to mention the stream of admonitions from my neighbor.
What are you wearing that outside?