This poet, professor and former Panera Employee is worth your time.

I listened to this interview three times in the last week. Every time, tears were in my eyes.

Last week, I listened to an interview with poet, professor and former Panera Bread employee, Ocean Vuong.

His honesty about anger, rage, grief, sadness, pain and his desperate desire to be kind in a world that is cruel and unrelenting resonated with me in ways things haven’t in a while. His vulnerability left me wanting to feel seen, known and be fiercely kind in a world that seems familiar with cruelty – and committed to it. His next book is on my “wish list” and his old ones are in my cart.