Literature Link Aug.7,2022 — Questions & Answers
• “7 Things I Learned in 7 years of Reading, Writing, and Living” by Maria Popova.
Formerly called Brain Pickings, here is Marie Popova with a little bundle of big treasures: I especially liked “4. Build pockets of stillness into your life. and 6. Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.” The artwork is thought provoking.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/10/23/7-lessons-from-7-years/
• TED TALK: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives — Jonathan Haidt “Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right, or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. Jonathan Haidt studies how — and why — we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be civil and open-minded.” This was enlightening for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOQduoLgRw
• What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice by Wen Stephenson. Here is the book Matthew mentioned during our Q & A service. “An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movement. The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation — a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond?” This link includes the preface — and it’s scary. https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_We_re_Fighting_for_Now_Is_Each_Othe/t-T4DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=What+We%27re+Fighting+for+Now+Is+Each+Other&printsec=frontcover
• “A Cure Against Poisonous Thought” and “White Barn” poems by Annie Lighthart. Here is a delightful short interview with this poet and young mother, Annie Lighthart. “ I have not found a better path than poetry to living a deep life. I want a life that is full of questions and meanings and I hope to really be awake and aware to my life. All these years after having continued to write poems, I haven’t found a better way of understanding the world. I find that by reading and writing poetry I can find answers to my questions about the soul that I can’t get from my neighbors. I am absolutely fascinated by the soul, and when I look around, I believe that everyone’s got one but nobody wants to talk about it.” https://archive.orartswatch.org/poet-annie-lightharts-cures-for-poisonous-thought/
In Faith,
Dale Dunnigan