Sara Hendren - Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World

Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse - and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary - and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and work with. But Sara Hendren has made it her passion, bringing to it her varied vocations and gifts: being a painter and loving how art reveals truth not by way of simplicity, but by juxtaposition; teaching design to engineering students; parenting three beloved children, one of whom has Down syndrome.
This is a conversation that will have you moving through the world both marveling at the ordinary adaptations that bodies make and asking, in Sara's words, "restless and generative questions": of why we organize the physical world as though vulnerability and needs for assistance are not commonplace - indeed salutary - forms of experience that reveal the genius of what being human is all about.
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Disability as a significant degree of needfulness - on a diverse human spectrum where we all have varying needs throughout life ❤

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I know the format of this podcast is one-to-one, but I wish they had a disabled person on to join this conversation- as a disabled person, I'm not comfortable with two abled bodied people discussing the experience of being disabled, even though both of those people are clearly incredibly well-intentioned and wanting to improve (and actually doing things to improve) life for disabled people. Like any other group, it's important to include our voices in discussions regarding our lives. My mother was always very involved in my life as a disabled person, but she could not accurately speak on my experience because as close as she was to it, she still has no idea what it was like to **inhabit** that experience. That being said, i am so grateful for these conversations. I just wish that people would understand that much like other minorities, we need to be part of these conversations, and we need to hear other voices of those who are disabled because our whole lives have been about those who advocate for us, and not about our actual experience. Again, though, I must express all my respect and gratitude to all and any who are engaged and interested in this conversation.