![]() Oh! And her dad wrote and performed the twangy theme song that plays at the start of each show. So far, Local Lou has more than a dozen episodes. "I'm just a girl that's interested in learning our history and sharing it with people who find it interesting." She saw it as something safe she could do by herself that would also get her outside. ![]() Kent started the podcast as a way to try a new hobby in the early days of the pandemic. The Local Lou Podcast shares local history using local historical markers as a jumping off point for research and discussion. "My perspective's going to be my perspective, so I'm also going to try really hard to be really fact-based." Tell me more about this podcast "I just feel like there's room in there to tell other people's stories, too," Kent said. But – though she's the first to tell you she's not a historian – she does want to bring a new perspective to the way Sioux Falls looks at its own history. She doesn't harbor any resentment or ill will for that fact.As she researches the markers for her " Local Lou Podcast," Kent said she's seeing some gaps and areas that were maybe missed because so many markers came largely from one historian's perspective.Many of those markers were a direct result of the work of local historian Bruce Blake, who died in 2017 at age 85. Minnehaha County has around 225 to 250 historical markers, according to Rick Lingberg, president of the county's historical society.Now, she's working to find ways to add more – and more inclusive – historical markers Why it matters It's based on you'll have a happier life if you're an optimist, period.Simplified: Lori Kent, aka "Local Lou," started a local history podcast as a way to get outside in the early days of the pandemic. But I have chosen to be optimistic for one reason. We just do not know, you know, so this gloomy sort of, you know, apocalyptic pornography in a way that's, you know, everybody's going, oh, this this is really going down. So, I mean, I'm an optimist only because I've chosen that we don't know what's coming up. You know, it's like they have chosen that and we have that choice, too. But the most important part of this teaching is its second part, which is do not become sad yourself. What would it feel like to be running away from a tsunami? And put yourself in that, really let yourself feel it, not like it's some kind of thing that's happening to someone else, but something that's happening to you. And just kind of go, what would that feel like to be there in that body right now? That's empathy. And that's really difficult, I think, to feel suffering of other people, to walk by someone and and see him lying in the gutter. So I just want to play you one little section of Bob Thurman's and it's called Liberation upon hearing in the between.īut but to actually let yourself allow yourself to feel that as intensely as you can. There's one guy who is my teacher at the time named Bob Thurman, and he talks about that transition. So it's like supposedly exhilarating and also very confusing. It's like everything breaks and you see sort of pure energy. Because it's, according to the Tibetans, confusing all your memories from all your whole life are like swirling around it. ![]() So the idea is to focus on that person in the time, not in yourself, and put all of your energy into thinking of that person who's trying to make that transition. And so it's a period of kind of great confusion. In this bardo is this period of time when supposedly, according to Tibetans, the consciousness, let's say ,they don't use words like soul or whatever, the consciousness shifts into another form. Well, I think rituals were made for stuff like this, you know, when Lou died, as a Buddhist I'm, and he was as well, it was really important to me to do this 49 day period of the bardo. So let's get started, because I really can't wait for you to meet Laurie Anderson. But they'll definitely be at least two more episodes in this current series. They feel really meaningful to me, but it's also painful at times. A big part of me doesn't want to stop having these conversations. I've been wrestling with how much longer I should keep doing this podcast. ![]() But doing these interviews and hearing your stories as well, talking about it, it helps. At times I still feel like I'm on a little life raft alone. There really is this this deep ocean of grief out there and the currents are strong. I've been reading your DMS on Instagram and your notes have been incredibly moving, and I want to thank you for reaching out. It has for me this week, even when you know what you should do or feel, or what your loved one who's died would want you to be doing or feeling doesn't mean you can, does it? It doesn't work like that. ![]()
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