Episode 2 · ~20 min

Officers and Wolves

Anne Lamott & Raghu Markus

Setting

Clown World — baby clowns processed in an industrial slaughterhouse. Clancy, Anne, and Raghu become sentient meat while speaking of death, cancer, surrender, and love.

Transmission

Death is certain; the time of death is uncertain. Accepting this opens the heart. Through love, all pain can turn to medicine. “Meditate like Christ when he was nailed to the cross. He felt love, not pain.”

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

I think that anytime anybody says the words, ‘You’ll feel better in time,’ they should be sliced in the ass.

For the walk

• The Venus Sequence opens the heart through relationship. Where is pain already medicine, if you stop asking it to leave on a schedule?
• The culture’s demand to “feel better” can itself be a violence. How do you hold paradox without tidying it?