2019-08-29
1 小时 3 分钟My guest today, Kate Inglis, is a photographer and author living in Nova Scotia, which is somewhere I've never been but would love to eventually go.
She writes children's fiction, including award nominated novels and picture books, and Kate's writing through the premature birth of her twins and then the subsequent loss of one and then life beyond eventually led her to create her internationally recognized book, notes for the ever lost.
In 2008, she then founded Glow in the woods, which is an online community for bereaved parents.
And then in 2012, she gave a TEDx talk called Parallelism, which really explored the similarities between the often solitary journeys of creative work and healing from grief.
And in today's conversation, we dive into the the peak moments along her journey, both highs and lows, from profound loss to revelation and creation, community and celebration, and all the stories that have shaped her path and the unexpected universality of her experience and her creative lens and voice and commitment to a life of creativity and of service.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I live in Lunenburg county.
So that is the land of pirates and rum runners and beaches and craggy salt, and the air is just rich with oceans burp all the time.
I like the way you described that.
And when you say pirates, you literally mean pirates.
I mean, that was the place.
Yeah.
Like, you know, under the sidewalk of the library in Halifax, there are mutineers buried.
There are skeletons buried all over the city of pirates.
And then, of course, the most recent sort of generation of pirates were Al Capone used to kind of frequent the bay that I live on.
Yeah.
So, of course, rum running during the prohibition era was sort of the most recent pirates were those guys.
So what's it like growing up in a place like that?
Well, I suppose when you grow up in that place, it feels ordinary.