WBUr podcasts, Boston.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Allman.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear song won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell eyes every day oh, and the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So we are going to do one of our two part episodes.
We're calling it the empty chair.
And what it's about, really, is the experience of living in the shadow of grief, and particularly the kind of grief that happens when a child in the family dies.
And of course, the parents are grieving that death.
And sometimes there are siblings that were either alive when the child died or who will be born after the death of that older sibling.
They never knew.
And really, that experience is a very particular one.
It's one in which there's joy.
You know, there's still a family that exists around that dead child.
There's also a lot of sorrow and grief, and there's always the presence of that absence.