In Search of Maternal Spirit—which includes interviews with three generous, thoughtful human spirits, Robin Williams, (pictured) Gabrilla Ballard and Montse. Like most of us, each of my guests inhabits worlds that are complex and steeped in the urgency to remedy un-wellness within their lived experiences and on behalf of the planet. They also offer what it means to be “creators of life.”    

How we naturally fortify and sustain our gardens (in homage to Alice Walker’s writings)—while also remaining in partnership with “amazement”— borrowed from poet Mary Oliver’s rousing phrasing—is what this episode explores in the stories of my guests who represent vastly different periods in my life that ebb and intersect through intergenerational commonalities and as personal and community friendships.