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Lexicon for Life
by Byline Supplement
Those words are: Loneliness, Grace, Vitality, Anxiety, Dreaming, Trickster, Spirituality, and Imagination. All have a special resonance in the work of the award-winning writer Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel? and How Animals Heal Us).In each of the eight episodes, Jay takes one of these words for a walk – exploring how they connect us to the past, bind us to the other life on the planet and offer us a silver thread to follow into the future.Each episode features readings and discussions in which Jay is joined by the actor and writer Joanna Scanlan (Riot Women, After Love) and the writer and podcaster John Mitchinson (QI, Backlisted).Words are our species’ most brilliant invention. A Lexicon for Life shows us why some words matter more than others. www.bylinesupplement.com
Episodes
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A Lexicon for Life: Bonus Episode — Twilight
In this special bonus episode of the podcast, Jay Griffiths reads from her book, Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times. “It is twilight. And at the waking edge of night, a crescent otter surfaces looping up from its dive. In its mouth, a fish shines silver, a little crescent…
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 8 — Spirituality
Every human culture has some kind of ritual to connect with something bigger than the self. Whether through organised religion or other spiritual practices, it appears to be a deep need in humans, but also in some animals, to acknowledge and celebrate wonder. In How Animals Heal Us, Jay describes...
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 7 — Dreaming
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths — Joseph Campbell Dreaming, and what we learn from our dreams, are a fundamental part of being human, part of every culture on earth, but we are not the only dreaming animals. “Spiders. Rats. Cats. Dogs. Zebra finches. Humans and other primates....
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 6 — Imagination
“If the imagination were an animal, it would be the hare. The mercurial hare races quicksilver, like a flash of thought swiftly appearing and instantly gone.” From cave paintings to fables and children’s books, for thousands of years, animals have shaped human thought and our urge to connect with...
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 5 — Anxiety
Anxiety is rife, caused variously by the fear of climate change, by the destabilising of political structures and the speed of technological development. No-one can be free of anxiety while being aware of what is happening in the world. “Young people are suffering a never-before-known sickness,...
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 4 - Trickster
Trickster archetypes exist in many human cultures, with a very defined set of characteristics. He is charismatic, funny, but utterly undependable, a little bit of a thief, but moving the story forward, making change happen, blasting away the status quo. Joanna reads from Jay’s book, Nemesis, My...
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 3 - Vitality
“Vitality is zest, enthusiasm, fizzing like a vitamin in the psyche. Vitality is the inextinguishable life force, the sap-rising iridescence. Vitality is not necessarily correlated with age, and an eighty-year-old, drinking in vividness, can be elastic with vitality as a core inner strength. It…
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 2 - Grace
Grace is one of Jay Griffiths’ favourite words; its connection to gratitude, to charisma, to that something more than was asked for. “It’s in the grace notes of music, the thing which is not strictly necessary, but the beautiful extra that gives life that quality of given, cherished, unearned...
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A Lexicon for Life: Episode 1 - Loneliness
Loneliness, Grace, Vitality, Anxiety, Dreaming, Trickster, Spirituality, and Imagination. All these words have a special resonance in the work of the award-winning writer Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel? and How Animals Heal Us). In each of the eight episodes, Jay...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Those words are: Loneliness, Grace, Vitality, Anxiety, Dreaming, Trickster, Spirituality, and Imagination. All have a special resonance in the work of the award-winning writer Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel? and How Animals Heal Us).In each of the eight episodes, Jay takes one of these words for a walk – exploring how they connect us to the past, bind us to the other life on the planet and offer us a silver thread to follow into the future.Each episode features readings and discussions in which Jay is joined by the actor and writer Joanna Scanlan (Riot Women, After Love) and the writer and podcaster John Mitchinson (QI, Backlisted).Words are our species’ most brilliant invention. A Lexicon for Life shows us why some words matter more than others.
www.bylinesupplement.com
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Byline Supplement
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Those words are: Loneliness, Grace, Vitality, Anxiety, Dreaming, Trickster, Spirituality, and Imagination. All have a special resonance in the work of the award-winning writer Jay Griffiths (author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel? and How Animals Heal Us).In each of the eight episodes, Jay...
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