On the Places We Call Home - With Patrice Gopo
How do you react when someone asks you where you’re from?
Do you list off the variety of cities you’ve lived in before?
Or is there just one place that you know as home?
Do you brace yourself for the follow-up question—no, like, where are you really from?
And prepare once again to say, “I’m from Des Moines”
Author Patrice Gopo writes that “The places we have never lived or no longer live can deepen our understanding of ourselves.”
Our relationship to place, to the many places we might call home, is a complicated one.
For some, it is a privilege to know the many places that have formed you. For others, it is a privilege to forget. For all of us, though, the yearning to understand who we are and how we came to be, is a deeply human one.
Join us as Kendall Vanderslice and guest Patrice Gopo, author of All the Places We Call Home, meditate on how to lean into the yearning for home.
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After you've listened to the episode, use these discussion questions to reflect further. Consider discussing them around the table with a friend or two.
What emotions come up when you hear the phrase, “Where are you from”?
What are some of the places, people, or food you call home? Why?
Who is someone you can talk with to learn more about the food and culture of your relatives and ancestors?
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