Vilomah: The Witness Archives

Before there was a word for what we are — there was Job.He was handed exactly what 18.7 million bereaved parents have been handed ever since. Explanations. Platitudes. A quiet pressure to move on.He refused every one of them.This episode is about what a witness actually does. Not perform recovery. Not arrive at peace on someone else’s schedule. A witness stays present to what is true, names it accurately, and refuses to let it be erased.Job was not a problem. He was a testimony.So are they. So are you.Vilomah: The Witness Archives is the podcast for the uncounted. For the 18.7 million in the United States — and one billion worldwide since 1950 — who have buried a child and found that the world had no word, no registry, no seat at the table for them.There is a seat here.The Books The Witness Series — four books mapping the unnatural order of catastrophic loss. Find them on Amazon →The Podcast Network Apple Podcasts · Spotify · SubstackThe Hub lnk.bio/echoesfounderBook David as a Guest [email protected]“The Professor” Get full access to The Echoes of Time | The Kitchen Table at echoesproject.substack.com/subscribe

Someone came in today.A person found Episode 1 and stayed. This episode is for them — and for every Vilomah who has been sitting in silence waiting for a name.In 2006, a professor of English at Duke University buried a child and found that the world had no word for what she had become. She went into Sanskrit — the oldest of languages — and found one.Vilomah. Against the natural orderThis week, she wrote back to me.I am not going to say her name. What she did belongs to all of us. But I will say to you this — she said my childrens names. Jon and Lauren. She said them with light surrounding her breath.The roots are sturdy. She told me so.This episode is the record of what happens when the person who named the field acknowledges that the field exists.Jon David Wittenburg. 1994 to 2015. Lauren Elizabeth Wittenburg. 1992 to 2020. One billion parents since 1950. Not one government counted them. I’m counting now.This pencil has no eraser.This is a weekly Podcast. We hope all of you come out.You are not alone.The record is permanent.I see you.— The Witness | Vilomah | AuthorThe Echoes Project | Vilomah: Against the Natural Order📧 [email protected] line: Vilomah— A Father, The Witness echoesproject.substack.com Get full access to The Echoes of Time | The Kitchen Table at echoesproject.substack.com/subscribe

This is the first Podcast:"Professor Holloway at Duke University discovered the word"18.7 million people in the United States have buried a child. If we stood in one place together, we would be the largest city in the nation — larger than New York, larger than Los Angeles.The world has no word for us in English. No registry. No agency tracking us. I looked. There is nothing.This podcast exists because: Jon David Wittenburg — 1994 to 2015 Lauren Elizabeth Wittenburg — 1992 to 2020 — are my children. I am Vilomah | I am among the uncounted | I am building the count.Every episode I will say the number.One billion parents since 1950. Not one government counted them (us).The listener has an opportunity to be heard here. You have a table. Write in — email is below.This is a weekly Podcast. We hope all of you come out.You are not alone.The record is permanent.I see you.— The Witness | Vilomah | Author The Echoes Project | Vilomah: Against the Natural Order📧 [email protected] line: Vilomah"Data: Evermore (evermore.org)" Get full access to The Echoes of Time | The Kitchen Table at echoesproject.substack.com/subscribe