Welcome back to MwT: The PauseCast with Angie Arendt! The state of the world is unsteady, and this is the background in which this episode happens to fall. And I ask Angie the question: how do we endure? How do we find balance when everything is upsidedown?
Discerning happiness versus joy is where Angie starts, as we wrestle with these big questions. “But happiness is a short-lived drug when it comes from outside of us,” she reminds us. And we meander from there, landing in a formula of “love is a noun and a verb + begin again + community” as one tonic for getting through these perilous times.
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Episode links:
Book by Mark Nepo “You Don’t Have to Do It Alone”
Netflix documentary, “Join or Die” based on the book by Robert Putnam “Bowling Alone”
Royalty free music is called Sunday Stroll – by Huma-Huma