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We're Gonna Make It
by Taylor Kerby
Everything sucks! But there's still hope. Twice a week Taylor shares a quick thought from one of the world's best thinkers to help you get through this terrible, terrible time to be alive.
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You're Alive
Today we look at the classic poem, "To the Virgins. to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick and we remind ourselves that we are alive. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven the sun…
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Take a break. Orwell said so.
Today we look at a short quote from Orwell's Animal Farm
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No Worse
Today we look at a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long;...
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Being Ourselves
Today is a reflection on a quote from Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked. "When the times are a crucible when the air is full of crisis," she said, "those who are the most themselves are the victims."
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Ozymandias
Today we look at Ozymandian by Percy Bysshe Shelly. The full poem can be found below: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and…
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Who knows?
Today we look at a very, very short poem by Robert Frost. “We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.” ― Robert Frost
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So, so tired of waiting.
Today we look to Langston Hughes. The full poem can be found below: I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two – And see what worms are eating At the rind. -Langston Hughes
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It's just the way it is
It's hard to remember that we aren't always in control. But that's just the way it is. Here is the quote: “The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That’s all you need to know. Nothing more. Don’t demand to know ‘why such things exist.’…
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Wait Without Hope
Waiting on the world to change isn't new. We've been doing it forever. It isn't easy, but we're gonna make it. Here's today's poem: Wait Without Hope By: T.S. Eliot I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be...
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Hey, YOU'RE gonna make it.
Let's be real. Life sucks. This is a podcast made for you by the best philosophers, poets, and scholars the world has ever known. Each of these great thinkers knew that we live in difficult times, and they have some advice for us. Every Tuesday and Thursday Taylor Kerby (of Talk About It) brings...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Everything sucks! But there's still hope. Twice a week Taylor shares a quick thought from one of the world's best thinkers to help you get through this terrible, terrible time to be alive.
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Taylor Kerby
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Everything sucks! But there's still hope. Twice a week Taylor shares a quick thought from one of the world's best thinkers to help you get through this terrible, terrible time to be alive.
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