Tell Me More

With Kelly Corrigan

Tonight’s episode opens with an essay looking back on themes and interviewees for the last 48 episodes (6 seasons in total). And there’s a lot there. But at the heart of it are these sentiments:

• You’re Allowed Here
• You’re Welcome Here
• You Belong Here
• This is Yours

Yeah I think I can abide by that. Matthew Desmond who wrote two different books “Evicted” and “Poverty in America”, will be interviewed. Linda Villarosa will be interviewed, she’s an expert on health and health outcomes and how that’s defined by race. Col. Greg Gadson is all about doing the right thing. And of course, Pete Buttigieg who has served at different levels of government is interviewed as a champion of Democracy (capital “D”). And then there’s a 17 year old, Gitanjali Rao (Time magazine’s 2020 Kid of the year) who is already enrolled at MIT, and all about solving problems. Rachel Zoffness is a pain psychologist, who studies chronic pain and it’s rise over time, she’s also trying to change things, and re-frame how we address it as a society. Reminds me in some ways of the general principle in Physics of the “arrow of time”. Things move forward, time in any/all frameworks used to measure what is or model what “might of have been” or “could be”. So looking forward to this series on PBS.