Introducing A Woman Who Wonders
I'm launching a podcast
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The quote above is one of my favourites. It is a consistent reminder to me, to be at peace with the questions. To settle into them. To be calm in the middle, in the uncomfortable uncertainty, and not attempt to rush to the end, to the answer. We’ll all get to the end soon enough…
This quote is the inspiration for the podcast that I am adding to this publication this week.
For a long time, I have imagined this podcast. It would be called Living the Questions in honour of the Rilke quote above, and I would edit it perfectly, with music and jingles. I would collaborate with interesting people who would join me in sparkling conversations and we would offer you revelations and the answers to all your concerns. As it stands, none of that is the case.
This podcast will be called A Woman Who Wonders and it will live here on Substack as a part of the larger publication A Woman Who Wanders. I hope that’s not too confusing. I am, indeed, a woman who does both.
It will not be perfectly edited. Each episode will be a simple voice note between 5 and 15 minutes. It’s long for a voice note but short for a podcast. Basically, the kind of wandering monologues I send to my most patient friends. They tell me they like them (you know who you are - I love you).
I will not offer you answers, only more questions, but really, I have come to believe that questions are among the most valuable and powerful tools we have.
A question is an invitation to think, to speak, to share.
A question can unlock truths we didn’t know were within us.
A question is a humble admission that we don’t know everything.
A question is the gateway to creativity, imagination and possibility.
A question is a doorway, through which we might bravely venture into the unknown.
I will be sending my first episode this week and one every week going forward. Subscribers will receive each episode straight into their inbox.
Here are some questions for you:
Will you join me?
Can you think of anybody else who might like to join us?
Hi Rhama, I really like how you wrote "for a long time I imagined this podcast...I would edit it perfectly...none of that is the case." So on point, and I can relate. I'm starting a publication here too, called The Mom Diaries, which will be me uploading short videos telling a story that's happened to me recently, with my hiccups, joys, insights, and questions. I love that you are going to do 5-15 minutes voice monologues. Here's to not perfectly edited endeavors by passionate moms! Best, Kay