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A Natural Disaster Took Her Husband and Son, But Not Her Hope: Kim Cantin

A Natural Disaster Took Her Husband and Son, But Not Her Hope: Kim Cantin

Update: 2024-06-19
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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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A Natural Disaster Took Her Husband and Son, But Not Her Hope: Kim Cantin

A Natural Disaster Took Her Husband and Son, But Not Her Hope: Kim Cantin