Go To on Finding Common Ground

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You and I both have short lists of people we just cannot bring ourselves to understand. But even in those most strained circumstances, we do have a set of things in common. Here’s my reminder to self of that always true fact. Meant to be shared, especially with people you’d love to reconnect with.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, this short segment is what we call for the good of the order.
0:10.9	It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings if you can believe that,
0:15.0	where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week,
0:18.4	a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went
0:25.0	about daily life.
0:26.7	And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in
0:31.5	the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.
0:34.8	So every Friday, we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.
0:39.5	Think of it like an audio greeting card.
0:42.0	A thing to share with the people that you love around the country who you don't get to
0:46.0	see or talk to enough.
0:48.0	A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis.
0:53.7	This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order.
1:13.2	This week's go-to is about finding common ground under any circumstances with any one.
1:20.6	It seemed timely as the ramp-up of politics and the election news continues to get
1:25.9	uglier and uglier.
1:27.8	Recently, I heard myself say to my college daughter Claire, the thing is we're just not as unique
1:34.7	as we think we are.
1:35.7	I mean, it's safe to assume there's always some common ground with whoever you're at odds
1:41.9	with.
1:43.4	Really, she said, even those guys, she asked, glancing toward the television set, at
1:50.8	some folks in Washington, at whose feet I may have occasionally laid the problems of
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