The End of The Road

Season 4 – Episode 5

Of grief and loss

January 17, 2024

For this episode, we picked stories and poems that intimately professed our individual relationships with grief and loss. Storytelling has always been an intrinsic part of processing grief. It allows us to recollect the memories of a loved one, to learn about the parts of ourselves that maybe we hadn’t given much attention to. It allows us to build emotional connections with our listeners, who- I believe- will always be able to see themselves in the story being shared.
We hear from Colin Warren sharing a poem honoring a departed friend and McCarthy local, Jason Esler; Jeremy Pataky sharing a poem reflecting on the loss of our glaciers; Sabrina Simon shares a story in prose about losing her son Jude; and Katy Etterman shares a story about the grief she experienced during her professional career as an acrobat.

Quotes by Martin Prechtel (Grief as Praise), Francis Weller (The Wild Edge of Sorrow) and poem by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer (For When People Ask).

Special thanks to Cole Pampe and Richard Atmo for contributing their original music. You can hear Richard’s original track here as well as hear more of their music on Bandcamp.

Thanks to our supporters far and wide, and thank you for joining us at The End of the Road.