another takeaway point from junot díaz’s interview on on being is about community, agency, and radical hope. the full section is included below the part that grabbed my attention was these few lines:
Read more...this is my second takeaway from the junot díaz episode of on being. i’m just going to try and walk through a paraphrase of junot’s thoughts in this one section of the episode.
Read more...back in september, i listened to episode 18 of the human current, preparing for complexity in emergency management. the guest that episode was thomas appleyard who works in the emergency management branch of ontario’s ministry of health and long term care. two points struck me and i’ll discuss one today and another one some other time.
Read more...last week an excellent episode of on being aired with atul gawande. i have already sent it to a few friends, especially my friends in the medical community.
Read more...about this time last year, i found (yet another) reason why to write in the way that i do on this blog (daily, mostly unedited, quickly). as per usual, it was something an on being interviewee said. this episode was with mary karr, but the quote i have is actually krista quoting something mary said in her book, the art of memoir. anyways, here’s the segment:
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