Comments on: A White Horse

By: Eve

Eve — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:51:16 +0000

What a beautifully written episode, it brought me to tears. I am Englush and have not heard of The White Horse & it’s long history. A place full of brave people just living their lives, long may it continue.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:21:54 +0000

In reply to Sam Diener.

Thanks very much for the correction. I don’t think I’ll change the text, but I very much appreciate the fact check.

Nate

By: Sam Diener

Sam Diener — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 01:16:35 +0000

I am a huge fan of this podcast and, first, I want to echo the encomia others have posted about this episode. You beautifully evoked the emotional importance of a particular example of what Sara Evans calls “Free Spaces” (see http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3633593.html) for sustaining persecuted people, and then for building movements for radical social change.

One historical quibble. Around the 9 minute mark, you mention the White Horse was open when “Massachusetts passed its marriage law.” But the MA legislature didn’t do so. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the law preventing same-sex couples from marrying violated the state Constitution in 2003 (see http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1447056.html). You might have been thinking of the attempts to overturn this ruling via state constitutional amendment, which failed in the state legislature in 2005 and again in 2007 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodridge_v._Department_of_Public_Health#Lawsuits_and_proposed_constitutional_amendments).

By the way, your conclusion, “And it will be open tomorrow….” was so understated, so moving, so perfectly prepared, so quietly hopeful, it evoked in me simultaneous chills and tears.

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By: Katie Page

Katie Page — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:25:22 +0000

I did not think you could raise the bar any higher, but indeed you did. This episode moved me to tears but still left me with hope in my heart. Amazing work, Nate. Keep up the good work.

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By: Elysha

Elysha — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:43:59 +0000

Hi Nate,

While I enjoy each of your episodes, I think you’ve created a bit of a masterpiece with this one. It’s beautiful. Thank you for putting in the time and effort and thank you for sharing with us.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:14:42 +0000

Beautiful. There are no words.

By: Shae Brennan

Shae Brennan — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:20:37 +0000

This podcast is always thought provoking and beautiful, but this episode was particularly meaningful to me. Thank you.

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By: D

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:00:46 +0000

I just have to echo all of the previous comments. This was beautiful. Thank you, and well done.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:34:29 +0000

Thank you for this–for the semblance of hope in a dark time.

“It will be open tonight. It will be open tomorrow.”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:57:43 +0000

I don’t really have any ties to the LGBTQ community nor did I know anyone involved in the Orlando shooting but wow, this podcast brought me to tears driving through the hills of West Virginia. Thank you. Absolutely beautiful.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 01:25:31 +0000

That was beautiful. I listen to your show while commuting on my motorcycle and I had tears running down my cheeks under my helmet as I listened to this one. Well done.

By: Marijn van der Waa

Marijn van der Waa — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 11:24:37 +0000

That was amazing.

By: Carl Alexander

Carl Alexander — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:20:39 +0000

I have despaired for my country a lot these past six months or so. And each time, one of America’s great storytellers – gifts we don’t deserve, every one – has rekindled hope. Thank you, Nate.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:49:46 +0000

Listened to it twice in a row. Beautiful!

By: jennifer baum

jennifer baum — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:04:52 +0000

thank you. that was just the sliver of understanding of the depth of grief and also the ray of hope that i needed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:17:52 +0000

This was beautiful and deeply moving. Thank you for telling our stories, for expressing the experience of finding yourself in a safe haven from the persecution, for expressing my thoughts after this tragedy better than I could hope to.

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By: Margen

Margen — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:31:21 +0000

This was so lovely. Your episodes are always such a humanizing perspective on history. I never know where you’re going to end up, and I love that element of discovery. It was especially powerful this time as we walked along with these people through history straight into present day. These vignettes are treasures. Keep up the excellent work!

By: Freya

Freya — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 03:46:08 +0000

Hi Nate,

I’ve been a fan of The Memory Palace for a long time. This is the most moving (and also the most beautifully written) episode I’ve ever heard. I’m in tears. Thank you for making it. <3

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:52:40 +0000

I just listened to this episode. Wow. Amazing. This is why I listen to your podcast. Thank you.

By: Patrick Botts

Patrick Botts — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 06:47:00 +0000

this is your best episode ever. Truly.

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 05:48:09 +0000

Nate my good sir, you are made of good stuff. Thank you for being a man of such great character and knowing just the right way to bring this story to us while honoring the lives of all of those who will live on in our memories.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 03:06:33 +0000

This was just so, so beautiful. Thank you

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 02:42:00 +0000

Wow. I’ve still got tears in my eyes. Thank you.

By: Kristin Winlsow

Kristin Winlsow — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:25:26 +0000

For 30 years, I’ve had the privilege and struggle of advancing queer visibility. This episode lit up so many molecules in the palace of my own memories and like so many others, moved me to tears. Thank you Nick, for helping us powerfully experience our emotions in a time of darkness.

By: Heather Charlton

Heather Charlton — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:11:36 +0000

I have been a fan for such a long time, and this episode was the pinnacle for me. Thank you. It encapsulates all the struggle, the hiding, the fear. It captures the beauty, the freedom, the feeling of finally being safe, the power and glory of love. The feeling when that space is disrupted, again, and again, and again.

I am so grateful. And I will share it with everyone I know.

By: Gwenn

Gwenn — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:15:15 +0000

I have loved every episode of the memory palace but the unique way this story was told is so moving. Reinforces how sad that anybody has to go to a windowless building to be around like minded people. Where is the tolerance for all in this world

Enthralled with the way Nate can tell a story in such a succinct manner

By: Brie

Brie — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:09:31 +0000

Crying at work…This was so wonderful.

By: Liadh

Liadh — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:31:37 +0000

This might be my favourite 10 minutes of radio ever. Thank you for this.

By: Phyllis Reese

Phyllis Reese — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:33:17 +0000

Thank you. What a lovely tribute.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:27:37 +0000

I started listening to this and I was balling by the end. I have always loved this show but this week was special. The best part was the very end, when you said it would be open tomorrow. I am tearing up just thinking about it now…

By: Liadh

Liadh — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:29:42 +0000

This is mt favourite 10 minutes of radio ever.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:28:15 +0000

Echoing the comments already posted – beautiful tribute.

By: Chris Burbridge

Chris Burbridge — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:47:18 +0000

Oh, my God—Nate is the master of the low-key zinger at the end! What a beautiful beautiful piece.

By: Elizabeth Merrill

Elizabeth Merrill — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:43:22 +0000

That was absolutely stunning. Thank you for so eloquently saying what we’ve all been feeling

By: James Griffith

James Griffith — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 01:11:47 +0000

This podcast was a beautiful, sad, uplifting, perfect story. It captured so much of what I’ve been feeling, and about what a place can mean to people.

Thank you for this.

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By: Dawn Ward

Dawn Ward — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:53:56 +0000

Thank you for this.

By: Dawn O'Creene

Dawn O'Creene — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:30:58 +0000

Speechless. Such a beautiful episode/tribute.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:44:58 +0000

Beautiful. Brought me to tears. Thank you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:07:10 +0000

Stop. Making. Me. Feel.

But seriously, never stop. And thank you for this timely piece that is at the same time poetic, tragic and beautiful. We are the makers of the future, and our actions and words today become how tomorrow remembers what we do with the past we were given. To stand up, to be ourselves; these are the freedoms given to us by our forefathers successes. I raise my glass to those who got us here, and lower my gaze to the storm caused by recent events; the actions of one lunatic must not be allowed to bring down the hopes of so many. Here’s to a future full of places and people who stand like the White Horse has stood and will continue to stand, forever.