Jun 19, 2024
Our guest this week, Kim Cantin, discusses a tragedy of the
deepest sorrow: the 2018 flash floods in Montecito, California,
that obliterated her home and took her husband and son from her.
Yet the rain and the mud and the devastation could not take her
hope.
Cantin was herself injured seriously and her daughter, Lauren,
trapped for six hours under the debris. While the body of her
husband, Dave, was found quickly in the mudslide’s aftermath, the
remains of her son, Jack, would not be discovered until three years
later, after an exhaustive search.
In her conversation with Warwick, she explains how she had to
muster the tenacity and perseverance to rediscover hope. She’s also
documented that journey in her book, WHERE THE YELLOW FLOWERS
BLOOM. Its title refers to the yellow flowers that grew in a place
that they shouldn’t near her son’s remains … and how their presence
helped her see the beauty where there should be none.
Indeed, as she says here, love found a way.
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