126. Commusings: Small Is Beautiful

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Each week Jeff has been writing a Sunday article called Commusings where we take a moment to think deeply on the topics of spirituality, philosophy, and culture. Today’s episode, inspired by a recent addition to the Krasno family, is called Small Is Beautiful. To receive the Commusings newsletter, you can go to onecommune.com and sign up at the bottom of the page.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commian podcast. This is Jeff Krasna. Many of you may receive my weekly
0:12.2	Sunday commusing article where I address a breadth of issues from the spiritual to the socio-political.
0:19.8	And on occasion, I will also record an audio version of these
0:24.0	essays and release it as a bonus episode. So today's podcast is derived from my article called
0:30.0	Small is Beautiful, which was inspired by a new addition to the Krasno clan. If you are interested in receiving my weekly article,
0:40.0	you can sign up at Onecommon.com,
0:42.9	and you can follow my various rants on Instagram at Chef Krasno.
0:47.8	So without further ado,
0:49.8	here is this week's commuting entitled Small is Beautiful.
0:54.0	It's Beautiful.
1:08.3	I fell asleep last Thursday night.
1:12.8	A copy of E.F. Schumacher's Small is beautiful on my chest,
1:19.0	only to be jostled out of reverie by what I perceived to be an earthquake. In retrospect,
1:25.3	the jolt could have been the seismic gyrations of my sister-in-law, who was in the throes of labor,
1:29.5	just a mile away. In the wee hours of Friday morning,
1:32.8	Lewis Kofi Krasno entered the world,
1:35.5	trading seats with Justice Ginsburg.
1:40.7	Amidst the political chaos, the fires, the virus, the uncertainty,
1:44.0	life miraculously presses on.
1:53.2	To behold this unadulterated innocence in your arms is to understand that indeed small is beautiful.
2:00.3	This radiant, helpless creature, fresh from the oneness of the womb, is closer to God than I'll ever be, for he knows not the
2:03.7	individuated self. He knows only connection. There will be a moment, probably in two years,
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