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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Margaret Renkl on hope, despair and the diminishing call of songbirds
Description: This episode first aired on March 31, 2022.
New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl joins the show to share her joy of spring and talk over the polarization that she sees hindering our progress. Renkl is also the author of Late Migrations and Graceland, At Last.
She tells host Khalil Ekulona âwhen the macrocosm is hard to bear, focusing in on the microcosm usually helps.â
âI do still take an immense amount of pleasure and hope in the bluebirds building a nest in the nest box in my yard, or for the spring beauties poking up through t...