Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order was inspired by a recent visit I had in Bozeman.

My cousins, Lena and Maggie, came through town with their husbands and their very small children,

and in Lena's case, her two stepsons,

who are adorable, hilarious, smelly teenage boys.

And just being around a baby and a toddler reminded me of how much touching goes on

when kids are little and it's something that I really miss. I think I've

admitted this before but Claire said to me not so long ago after I held her

for what she considered to be too long.

Mom it's a hug, not a hang. So yeah, I miss and crave touching. And then I had this baby here and this

toddler and they were so lovely and physical and adorable.

I just had these bodies on me for almost 48 hours and it reminded me of how important a piece of the

puzzle touch is and that took me back to Gretchen Rubin's book Life in

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