Episode 18: From Star Stuff to Cowpies in a Warm Summer Rain (Living a Life that Matters, Part 2)

The word “matter” can have multiple meanings.  There’s the one which is the overarching focus of this podcast, the one that’s invoked when we say that something or someone “matters” or when I ask, What really does “matter,” and why?    And then there’s the meaning of the word that points to physical, tangible, measurable “matter”: things, objects, the “stuff” that everything is made of, that we can see and smell and taste and touch and hear.... Where I’m really going with this is to wonder about whether and why and how “matter matters.”  This episode explores ways in which our physical, material, embodied existence – from hard work and good food to skin color and mortality – can be part of what it means to live a life that matters.