A few months ago, David’s wife Marie bought him a quiet day at a nearby hermitage, which is when he started reading Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction by Jonathan Tepper. Today Jonathan joins David to talk about his memoir and unique childhood as a missionary kid working with heroin addicts.
Show Notes
Mentioned Books
- Shooting Up
- Flying over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy by Thomas L. Webber
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Mentioned Quotations
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking… as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing… What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure… When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then—that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?”
C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (Chapter 12)
How natural it all seemed then, how remote and improbable now.
George Orwell
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ash
