Today we will be discussing selections from Dueteronomy and Isaiah of the Hebrew Bible. This will be part of a weekly Torah reading. We hope you enjoy!
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In our 12th episode of The Garden School Podcast we discuss Learning How To Paint, a book by the British psychologist Joann Milner. The conversation starts with painting but goes into many different aspects of what happens to our brain/body when we learn new things.
Miles Simon is a literary scholar at the University of Rochester.
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In lieu of Labor Day, Miles and I decided to discuss Leisure and Labor, thought, perception, and much more!
Miles Simon is a literary scholar from the University of Rochester.
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We're back! We've been in the process of leaving New York and moving down to Florida. This return episode features selections from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself -- and important American poem at a time of uncertainty and even anger at being American.
In our sixth episode, we'll look at the concept of zest. What does it mean to have it? How do you get it? We'll be revisiting Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness.
Here's a new link to the reading:
https://archive.org/stream/TheConquestOfHappinessByBertrandRussell1930VTS/The%20Conquest%20of%20Happiness%20by%20Bertrand%20Russell%20%281930%29%20%7BVTS%7D_djvu.txt
In our fifth episode, we talk about the influence of our perceptions on how we see the world around us. We'll be reading some excerpts from the brilliant G.K Chesterton's essay, A Piece of Chalk. There's a free pdf link on the bottom of the page.
https://www.chesterton.org/a-piece-of-chalk/
In our fourth episode, we’ll talk about Kindness and Strength through a reading of a few excerpts from Marcus Aurelius’s The Meditations. I’ll also talk about the importance of communicating important ideas.
R.I.P Bill Withers
FREE PDF OF THE MEDITATIONS:
http://seinfeld.co/library/meditations.pdf
In our third episode, we'll look at Anger as a useful weapon if wielded correctly. We'll read excerpts from Albert Camus’s essay, The Myth of Sisyphus and talk about turning anger into fuel. A free pdf version of Camus's essay and more of his writings can be found below.
http://schmieder.fmp-berlin.info/collectibles/pdf/sisyphos_eng.pdf
