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. Today's go-to is really almost like a mission statement for Kelly Corgan Wonders.

It's basically where I'm coming from on this whole adventure.

So I wanted to share it with you here and ask you, if there is a friend you have in the country

who is not yet listening, would you send this to them and see if they might want to join you

on this road of discovery and wonder? We'd love to have them. All right, here are my thoughts

behind why we do this work. I think I finally put my finger on the very most difficult thing

we have to accept as human beings,

partially because it is so squarely opposed to our nature.

So let's start with our nature, what we know to be true about ourselves.

We are storytelling animals.

There's nothing profound about that, but we still have to acknowledge that there's

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