Awakening Wonder with Katherine May

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all gotten trapped in the social media & news loop: Checks Twitter, scrolls on Instagram, reads comments, watches the news, checks Twitter, reads comments, checks the news again… and the cycle continues. Today’s guest, international best-setting author Katherine May, invites us to join her on a journey or reawakening in her newest book, Enchantment. Explore the art of reconnecting with the world around you, and learn to see the humanity of others. Whether it’s a gorgeous sunset, a mossy rock, or your sourdough starter, wonder is all around us if we can practice mindfulness, engage our curiosity, and look for it.

Special thanks to our guest, Katherine May, for joining us today.

Host/ Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Production Coordinator: Andrea Champoux

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome delighted to have you with me today and oh my goodness
0:08.6	today's conversation with Catherine May you need this you need this in your life.
0:13.8	Her new book is called Enchantment.
0:16.8	And if you have been feeling just a tremendous amount of anxiety about the state of the world, about your own life.
0:27.1	You need to listen to this conversation.
0:29.2	It is not a self-help conversation, she's not a therapist, but this is something that all of us can do and it can
0:38.0	help us all improve our lives and feel better and live lives that are more full of wonder and peace and joy and I just
0:46.9	loved this conversation so much so let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and
0:51.8	here's where it gets interesting.
0:55.0	I'm really excited to be chatting today with Catherine May because I absolutely loved her book
1:00.9	Enchantment and could not wait to have this conversation and thanks for being here.
1:06.2	Oh absolutely my pleasure thank you so much that's so kind of you to say.
1:09.8	When I started reading Enchantment I got to I want to say it was like page five and I was like
1:16.4	mhm this is absolutely the way almost everyone I know feels and I just want to read this little section and I want to hear your comments on it.
1:24.8	You say the last decade has filled so many of us with a growing sense of
1:30.0	unreality. We seem trapped in a grind of constant change without ever getting the chance to
1:36.9	integrate it. Those rolling news cycles, the chatter on social media, the way that our families have split along partisan lines.
1:45.7	It feels as though we've undergone a halving, then a quartering, and now we are some kind of
1:52.4	social rubble.
1:54.0	If there was a spirit of this age, it would look a lot like fear.
1:58.0	For years now, we've been running like rabbits.
2:00.0	We glimpse a flash of white tail, read the danger signal, and run, flashing our own white tail behind us.
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