This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for October 20, 2015. In this episode, we catch up with what has been happening in Tristy’s life, which includes a lot of grief and loss.

Songs Played:

• From Stardust to Sentience by High Places
• I Wish I Was the Moon by Neko Case
• How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? by Al Green
• I Have Always Been Here Before by Roky Erickson
• Please Read Me by Nina Simone
• Is There a Ghost? by Band of Horses
• Magnificent Sadness by The Growlers
• See My Friends by Richard Thompson
• A Feeling by Throwing Muses
• Hey Govinda, Hey Gopala by Jagjit & Chitra Singh

Books, articles and poems referenced:

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
• Megan Devine’s Refuge in Grief 
• The Sun Magazine interview with Francis Weller, called The Geography of Sorrow: Francis Weller on Navigating Our Loses by Tim McKee
• The poetry of John O’Donohue

Other resources on Grief & Loss:

• How to Be a Friend in Deed by Bruce Feiler in the New York Times
• 12 Things to Know About the First Year of Grieving Someone You Can’t Live Without by Laurie Costanza in Elephant Magazine

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