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We live in unusual times, and this is an unusual show, a kind of

spiritual book club addition of on being.

When things fall apart is a tiny volume by Pemis Chodron.

She's one of the greatest living teachers and writers in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

I'm not Buddhist, but I carry this book with me wherever I go.

So do others on our team, including our executive producer Lilliana Maria

Percy Ruiz and our art director, Aaron Colisaco.

So we sit out to look for who else might be turning to this writing right now

and quickly landed on the extraordinary musician and artist,

DeVendor Ben Hart.

He's described his copy of when things fall apart as a literary version of an

in case of emergency break glass box.

So from the emergency recording cave in my basement and his home studio in East

Los Angeles, we read favorite passages to each other and reflect on what it is

to be alive and looking for meaning right now.

So maybe I'll read a few of these parts from when things fall apart.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

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