Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
Literature Link for May 22, 2022 — the Courage to Be
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown. Brené Brown claims that your vulnerability is actually one of your strengths Despite what some may think, Brown said, “Vulnerability is our most accurate way to measure courage, and we literally do that as researchers.” Vulnerability allows them to assess fearlessness, said Brown. “We can measure how brave you are by how vulnerable you’re willing to be.” For her interview on On Being, go to this YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmJinwZDgw
For the book [audible] https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Brene-Brown-audiobook/dp/B07DX6TNR1
• “What Kinds of Times Are These?” by Adrienne Rich. {poem] “At the end of the 1930s, as terror was engulfing Europe, the exiled German poet Bertolt Brecht posed this question chillingly in a poem titled “To Those Who Follow in Our Wake”: What times are these, in which / A conversation about trees is almost a crime / For in doing so we maintain our silence about so much wrongdoing!” The great feminist poet, essayist, and activist Adrienne Rich, in this recording from PBS’s Poetry Everywhere project, reads her rousing masterpiece.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/01/adrienne-rich-reads-what-kind-of-times-are-these/
• The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. You have the power to change your destiny. To some this is a disputable statement, but Joseph Murphy spent years of research and practice to compile this work. He says that most events that happen to us are results of our conscious and subconscious activity. The scientist studied the world’s religions for years and discovered that spiritual practice is a source of human strength. https://www.amazon.com/Power-Your-Subconscious-Mind Prosperity/dp/0735204314?asin=0735204314&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
• “The Sun Doesn’t Know It’s a Star” by Kelli Russell Agodon. [poem] In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life―including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide―are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Click on the plus sign to see the whole poem.