4 episódios
Walking in America Joseph Bergen
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- Saúde e fitness
For the better part of a decade, I have been walking in America, from town-to-town, searching for sanity, searching for relevance, searching for forgiveness, searching for a place to call home. I have stumbled. I have fallen. I have shaken hands with both the monsters and the magic of this Brave New World we live in. And as Aldous Huxley wrote, “I am I, and I wish I weren’t.”
So I keep walking, mostly for the simple reason that my heart has the audacity to keep on beating despite my penchant for self-destruction..
This podcast chronicles that walk.
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Walking in America - Episode 3: Waking Beneath the Chicory Flower
An episode about looking for shelter when homeless.
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Walking in America - Episode 2: The Fifth Floor
Being admitted to the Fifth Floor Behavioral Health Unit in a blue paper gown.
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Walking in America - Episode 1: That Thing that I Do
This episode explores homelessness on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. the effects of mania, and the circumstance leading to psychiatric hospitalization.
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Walking in America: An Introduction
For the better part of a decade, I have been walking in America, from town-to-town, searching for sanity, searching for relevance, searching for forgiveness, searching for a place to call home. In this search, I have stumbled. I have fallen. I have confronted both the miracles and the monsters of this Brave New World we live in. And as Aldous Huxley wrote, “I am I, and I wish I weren’t.” So I keep walking, mostly for the simple reason that my heart has the audacity to keep on beating.
This podcast chronicles that walk.