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Flowers For Linda
by Caits Meissner
FLOWERS FOR LINDA is an audiozine (some call it “podcast”), created and hosted by me, Caits Meissner—named after my late gardener mom—about creative relationship, giving the living their flowers, and the surprising lessons of grief.
Episodes
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The Music We Carry with Alec Betterley
Season 3, Episode 3: The Music We Carry with Alec Betterley—musician, singer-songwriter, hospice music therapist, and best friend since birth. What is a season? What is a life? Today is the seventh anniversary of my mother’s death, the namesake of this series (hi Linda), and it feels just right…
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How to Collaborate With a Ghost with Chelsea Granger
How to Collaborate With a Ghost with Chelsea Granger —multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and curator of visual medicine. We open episode 2 of season 3 with a hand-picked bouquet for the beloved dead, inspired by Chelsea’s painting in her gorgeous and comforting book on grief, death and joy…
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Choosing How to Live with Chopp Stewart
This first episode of Season 3 unfolds in bed, in the company of ancestors. We begin with a strange presence in the room who leads us into a conversation about grief, ritual, and legacy. Chopp shares about caregiving, assisted death, memorial-making, and the ways we choose to honor the people who...
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Singing With Roberta with Honey Larochelle
Why don't we dance around a fire when a loved one dies? How do we challenge our inherited programming around the experience of death? And how can we accept our greatness now, in this very moment, God-willing, long before our own expiration date? Oh, and if you're Honey, you might also ask, what...
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A Novel For Junior with Alejandro Heredia
How can we stay present to the goodness of life as it unfolds? When is ambition a boon to creativity, and when is it a block? Can regret be a useful emotion? And how can loss give purpose and shape to our creative pursuits—and, often, save our lives? In Season 2, episode 6 of Flowers For Linda, a...
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The Ecstasy of Grief with Katrina Goldsaito
How do we continue to offer agency to those who have passed on? To those who have chosen to exit the embodied experience by their own hand?Does that detail change your answer? When the world feels dangerous and unpredictable, what feels certain now? There are secret languages between sisters,...
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Chasing The Uncanny with Cavalier
What evidence in our own lives reveal that more lies beyond the material world? Do the purest spirits die younger than the rest of us? What signs show us our beloved dead are speaking? On episode 2.4 of FLOWERS FOR LINDA, a podcast on grief & creativity, I sat down with Cavalier, poetic MC,...
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Fred's Miraculous Second Act with Boyuan Gao
What secret selves live behind the selves we wear in the world? How can a memorial celebrate life in a truly embodied way? How can friendship help us navigate big losses? On episode 2.3 of FLOWERS FOR LINDA, a podcast on grief & creativity, I am joined by Boyuan Gao, woman of many hats that have...
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What Happened At The Cedar Lodge? with Maya Meissner
What visual choices help communicate stories of tragedy and horror without adding sensation? Can art help us grieve strangers? Should a serial killer be humanized? These are just a few questions that arise in episode 2.2 of FLOWERS FOR LINDA, a podcast on grief & creativity with Maya Meissner, a...
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Fake Flowers Last Forever with Sam Sellers
What is the pedagogy of loss? The alchemical process where pain turns to gold? How do we animate our love of self with inner power vs ego? FLOWERS FOR LINDA relaunches with Sam Sellers: Wordsmith MC, master DJ, beloved music professor, seeker of the great surrender, and Damn Good Homie. Sit with…
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Still Mama Phife with Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Poet Cheryl Boyce Taylor talks with tenderness, humor and wrenching honesty about raising, being raised by, and losing her son Malik, whom you and I know as the legendary Phife Dawg from the seminal hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. This profound, uplifting, and touching double-length episode...
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A Ritual is a Container with Caroline Rothstein
Losing her brother unexpectedly as a teen, multidisciplinary writer, storyteller and performer Caroline Rothstein leaned on Jewish ritual to survive. The poetry of her faith now finds its way into every area of her life—inspired by death. In this heart to heart, Caroline introduces us to her...
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The Dead Parents Club with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The overstory is your first book is a NYT bestseller. The understory is your father’s recent death. FLOWERS FOR LINDA audiozine is (finally!) back with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah in this heart-opening conversation about the collision of grief and creative success.
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Drop the Performance of Artist To Live Life As Art
When I was asked to present a keynote speech in fall 2021 at the Transformative Language Arts' Power of Words conference, alongside one of my inspirations, the astonishing poet laureate Joy Harjo, I knew I had to muster up the courage to really speak from spirit. This rangy, experiential talk is...
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I Am Enough with Maya Azucena
What kind of spiritual work does it take to sing on stadium stages? In this first episode, I mine wisdom and gems from a conversation with my larger-than-life 4-octave-range, Grammy-awarded singer, songwriter, humanitarian and best friend Maya Azucena, through the lens of her new music project, I...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
FLOWERS FOR LINDA is an audiozine (some call it “podcast”), created and hosted by me, Caits Meissner—named after my late gardener mom—about creative relationship, giving the living their flowers, and the surprising lessons of grief.
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How many episodes does Flowers For Linda have?
Flowers For Linda currently has 15 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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FLOWERS FOR LINDA is an audiozine (some call it “podcast”), created and hosted by me, Caits Meissner—named after my late gardener mom—about creative relationship, giving the living their flowers, and the surprising lessons of grief.
How often does Flowers For Linda release new episodes?
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Flowers For Linda is created and hosted by Caits Meissner.
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