How to be Human with Laura Gibbons

Lenda Letlaka

12 min

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Our How to be Human interviews begins with my friend Laura Hatch, Ables, GIBBONS!!! Yes, I have known her through each of these name changes and still call her one or all three. I met Laura in Salt Lake City, Utah when I was about 15. She was in her twenties and seemed “so much older”. Her laugh is one of my absolute favorite things and she’s a wrangler of other humans. She can bring oddball groups of folks together who would never hang out otherwise and make them feel like they’re at a 6th grade birthday party with all of their best friends. In August 2021 I got to go hiking with Laura through the foothills of Salt Lake City overlooking the northern part of the valley. During our conversations I learned something new about her, she loves mountain biking! And as she put it, “I’m a beginner. I’ve been a beginner for the last eight years.” The humility she displayed in this simple sentence made my jaw drop. And, now I know I really want to go mountain biking with her! We sat down together for our How to be Human chat over a month ago. “I fly by the seat of my pants Lara, you should know that.” -Laura Question 1: How to be human? What is the best integration of humanness? “You know, that’s a good question actually, because I really I think you know me, I feel like you’re always evolving as a human. And I think you learn from other people. Just the different experiences you have with people and the relationships you form. Or even the experience of doing things like riding a bike or learning how to cook. Just all those fundamentals and I don’t think there’s any set things of “how” to be a human, but I just think that someone who learns along the way is better for it. “I think you’re always evaluating yourself as a human and you can either evaluate negatively or positively or neutral! And I think as you get older you either get wiser,

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How to be Human with Laura Gibbons

Lenda Letlaka

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