The Voice of Endurance

The Voice of EnduranceI had a plan for this episode. Diana Nyad, cultural commentary, the mythology of the endurance hero. But something else happened instead.What came out was this: the performance of okayness. The way grief — real grief, the kind that lives in your body — gets quietly managed in private rooms while you hold it together for the world. I talk about stillbirth. I talk about cancer. I talk about what it costs to be the person who endures.This is the episode I didn't mean to make, and probably the one I needed to.For anyone who has ever been privately falling apart while publicly holding on.