Greetings Readers!
To all those who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving week! Expect the theme of gratitude to show up in a few meditations. Here is the latest Monday Muse with a perennial reminder, question, and recommendation(s) to consider.
Be wise, be grateful, and be well this week!
📌 Perennial Reminder(s)
Grateful living offers a path and a promise. It is an intimate orientation to life. The more gratefully and intimately we dare to approach and engage with life, the more intimately we will experience it, and everything it has to offer. The more we befriend and acknowledge vulnerability, uncertainty, and impermanence, the more appreciative and alive we become. Grateful living rests in this paradox. When we are awake, we experience this paradox and its gifts every day. … Grateful living allows us to show up for life, and then it sticks with us unconditionally — whether we feel gratitude or not, whether we are happy or not. It hangs around as we go through the great fullness of life, offering its radically gracious presence. […]
Source: Wake Up Grateful by Kristi Nelson (Listen to the conversation).
💡 Perennial Question(s)
Whether you feel you have lost your ability to read well, or you never acquired that ability at all, be encouraged. The skills required to read well are no great mystery. Reading well is, well, simple (if not easy). It just takes time and attention. Reading well begins with understanding the words on the page. In nearly three decades of teaching literature, I’ve noticed that many readers have been conditioned to jump so quickly to interpretation and evaluation that they often skip the fundamental but essential task of comprehending what the words actually mean. … Attending to the words on the page requires deliberation, and this improves with practice. […]
Source: On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior (Listen to the conversation).
🔥 Recommendation(s)
This week's recommendation is an episode of The Art of Manliness Podcast. The specific episode I’m recommending is titled The Lesser-Known Philosophy of the Iron Age Greeks with Adam Nicholson. Adam is the author of the new book How to Be: Life Lessons from Early Greeks.
🎧 Recent Podcast(s)
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Thank you for reading/listening; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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Josh, the Listen to the Conversation links in today’d email take me... nowhere 🙁