"We Talk About Plants and the Weather" | 8 Years of Family Silence | Ep. 7

The United States of Us · May 28, 2026 · 58m

Tammy and Lori are back for Episode 7, picking up right where they are.

This one opens with a reading about the woman who chooses herself, then moves into the work underneath it. Visibility. Being seen. The cost of shining when you learned young that your light broke things around you. Tammy shares a new spoken word piece, "Earn the Air," written from the child who learned to hold her breath before she learned her own name.

From there it opens wide. The programming we absorb before age seven. The subconscious that drives the bus while we think we are steering. What it means to claim…