We Are The Wells: How Connection Truly Sustains Us | Gizelle Clemens | TEDxWilmette

[Applause] [Music] All my life I've been surrounded by wells. Not the kind dug into the earth. I'm from the city. So, the only things I know about digging in the earth is subways, tunnels, and sewers, but a different kind of well. And I didn't always know what that meant until one morning it became crystal clear. It was 4:02 a.m. my birthday. the exact time my mother Heather Clemens would call every year without fail to pray over me and pray me into a new year of life. She believed that if she blessed my li ...