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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:37

FEATURE: Watching my dad die changed my life

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Cascade Hulsky is a geographer, and he is currently an Earth Institute post doctoral research scientist at Columbia University. He also made me cry this week. No joke. He wrote Beautiful article, an outside magazine about his dad dying of cancer. I related to it so much. I invited Cascade to speak with us here. Thank you so much for being here. You are a beautiful writer, and I related so much to your relationship with your dad

https://s.swell.life/SSZxTaIrkLnUW2y Writer and Scientist Cascade Tuholske adds his voice to the story

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Cascade Tuholske
@cascade · 0:21
Oh, well, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure for me to join you. And I really appreciate your kind words. And I hope within the sadness of my writing that I also gave you an entry point to look for a point of optimism in these sometimes kind of troubled times
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:13

@cascade

Hey, indeed you did cascade. It's beautiful work. I can't wait for people to read it. And thank you again for writing it. And I'll be following your career and your work and looking forward to hearing more from you. Wonderful, wonderful peace. Thank you
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Sontaia Briggs
@PKBriggs · 1:05

#hope

Good morning. And thank you for sharing this story and the article. This was really a beautiful piece and true, right? I mean, I never to of things I never considered people who study, like climatology, like actually how terrifying and depressing that could be. I get terrified and depressed just from my basic, very simplistic understanding of the things that's happening to our environment. So that's number one and those folks are brave and we need them
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Cascade Tuholske
@cascade · 1:22
Yeah. The balance between knowing, I guess our fate and seeking hope and optimism is the fundamental or a fundamental part of the human and condition. And I was so fortunate to see, I guess, the embodiment of that balance through my dad, not just in the last year of his life, but throughout his life. And right now, I'm sitting here in Montana during record setting or near record setting heatwave
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:21

@cascade 🏔

Hey, Cascade, I just wanted to say thank you so much for writing and sharing this story. It admittedly it made me burst into tears. The part where you talk about the loss of your dad and how how he died giving you a new way forward and a new perspective on life. It just resonated with me so much and was just a reminder of how much loss and grief can be, our greatest opportunities to live more deeply and fully and with gratitude and optimism and my life, your dad
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Cascade Tuholske
@cascade · 0:48
And I don't know, 800,000 words. So yeah, it was a really exciting opportunity to have an editor as a scientist, our manuscripts, we don't often have to professional Editors to work with
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