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Thoughts and Prayers
A talk about grief, loss, child loss, school shootings, gun violence, violence generally, the cancer of rampant self-interest, the pain, rage and…
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Ally Hamilton
50:50
Thoughts and Prayers
I went to a funeral when I was twenty-five.
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Ally Hamilton
32

August 2024

Blessed Be the Fruit
Do you ever go to the wrong people looking for things you know they can’t or won’t give you?
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Ally Hamilton
2
1:10:19
Blessed Be the Fruit
When I was seventeen I started going to Al-Anon meetings, which - in case you don’t know - are meetings for family members of alcoholics.
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Ally Hamilton
25
The Blind Spot
A talk about perspective.
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Ally Hamilton
57:53
The Blind Spot
It’s a strange thing to sit staring at an empty screen wondering what might come out of your head that could be useful, entertaining, comforting or…
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Ally Hamilton
12
Yogis for Kamala
aka Lotus for Potus :)
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Ally Hamilton
14
The Absence of Pain
A talk about intense pain, but also the feeling of incredible, joyous relief when pain releases its grip on us.
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Ally Hamilton
4
50:59
The Absence of Pain
I woke up a little before 6am with a migraine.
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Ally Hamilton
13
It Doesn't Matter
A talk about growing up as a girl and then a woman in a culture where violence against girls and women is so prevalent it’s normalized, and perpetrators…
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Ally Hamilton
1:04:55
It Doesn't Matter
In January of 2003 I’d been living in Los Angeles for two years.
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Ally Hamilton
24
Smile
A talk about growing up as a girl and then a woman in a culture that teaches you to devalue women and girls, to accept that you are an object and that…
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Ally Hamilton
2
59:54
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