The Future Inside the Room Podcast

The Future Inside the Room: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called The Future Inside the Room from the book Ghosts of Parenting, exploring how parenting carries the future directly into everyday life, not as an abstract idea, but as a constant, embodied presence. The conversation names how tomorrow lives inside ordinary moments, in vigilance, in quiet fear, in sustained attention, and in a form of love that stretches across time, shaping how parents experience rest, responsibility, and presence. It looks at why this forward weight can feel exhausting when it goes unnamed, how it alters the texture of time itself, and how recognition brings clarity without offering solutions, revealing parenting as a lived condition where care continues beyond rooms, routines, and years, leaving a lasting imprint on how life is held.