They used to call him “Dr. Love.:
Author, educator, and motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia was an immensely popular figure in the 1980s, seeding the American psyche with a message of love and humanity. Buscaglia was also widely renowned for his penchant for hugging people, even strangers. But once you met Leo you were no more a stranger to him,.
Lao Buscaglia’s parents were Italian immigrants, and although he often mentioned his mother in his books, he had never written extensively about his father, until his 1989 book Papa, My Father. That’s when I first met him.
In this powerful interview, Leo urges us to connect and reconnect with our fathers – and mothers – before we run out of chances to do so.
So here now, from 1989, Leo Buscaglia.
Leo Buscaglia died in 1998. He was 74.
