Introducing Grandmother is a Question (Asha & Isis) from Mother is a Question. Follow the show: Mother is a Question To wrap up Season 2 we have a love story about a grandmother and her granddaughter - how they came to know themselves through each other, and how they’ve saved each other’s lives, again and again. It’s a story about home. How we find our place. Our longing for Motherland. It’s about destiny– the kind we create and the kind that creates us. And as we prepare to end our season, it’s also a story about taking flight, and saying goodbye.--------------------Listeners, we want to thank you for joining us for the first two seasons of Mother is a Question. However you found us, it’s an honor to have your attention and your ears. And as we enter this next phase - this unknown territory - and recombobulate, we’d love to hear from you. Write us your thoughts, feelings and stories at motherisaquestion@gmail.com and be sure to subscribe to our show if you haven’t to get any updates in the coming months. Follow us on instagram @motherisaquestionMother is a Question is created by Natasha Haverty and Julia Metzger-Traber. Our editor is Rob Rosenthal.Original Music by Raky Sastri and Julia Read; other music by APMManager of The Big Questions Project: Courtney FleurantinCoordinating Producer: Emmanuel DesarmePost-Production Audio Engineer : Sandra Lopez-MonsalveExecutive Producer: Genevieve SponslerInterview Recording (DC): Stefanie De Leon Tzic Interview Recording (Arusha, Tanzania): Munira KaonekaArt by Richard GrayMother is a Question is a part of the Big Questions Project at PRX and supported by the John Templeton Foundation. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.
Asha grew up in a peach colored house with her mom and dad and three siblings.
And in the basement lived her grandma, her special person.
As a kid, Asha went down there as much as possible, and her most magical memory of all.
There were the seafood parties.
We'd have these seafood parties, and so she would buy, like, crab and she would buy shrimp, and she would, like, lay out a towel, and we would sit on her floor, and she would have a.
A different colored light bulb.
It was a black light, so we.
Were bathed in purple light while we were eating seafood.
On a lot of those nights.
Asha says before her siblings got older, it was just her and her grandmother.
No parents allowed.
Aasha says it was where she felt the safest.
It felt like being in a womb.
Like, this person just loves me so much and is taking care of me.
She creates a space of a feeling held.
It was so important for me to feel like somebody saw me and saw what I was going through, and, like, somebody else could hold the emotion that I couldn't.
I would not have made it through my teenage years without my grandmother.
Like, I just simply would not have.
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I'm Julia.