How to find glory in the ordinary
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Terry Tempest Williams writes about finding beauty in unexpected places, animals, plants, memories and moments. She shows us how to do that in today's increasingly chaotic world.
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| 0:27.4 | A recent episode features Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Myron, |
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| 0:40.3 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:47.7 | This is on point. I'm Megyn Chakrabardi. Today, although I'm sad you can't see it, I am wearing the t-shirt I bought at Grand Teton National Park. |
| 0:57.5 | That's because one of the most eloquent advocates for America's natural spaces is here with me in the studio. |
| 1:04.7 | For decades, Terry Tempest Williams has been exploring America's wilderness, our religions, our ethical struggles, our history. |
| 1:13.6 | Not the boundaries between them, mind you, but how truly there should be no boundaries between |
| 1:20.8 | those ways of seeing the world at all. |
| 1:23.5 | She's the author of many books, including refugeuge, an unnatural history of family and place, |
| 1:29.5 | also the open space of democracy, and finding beauty in a broken world. |
| 1:35.3 | And in that book, she writes, quote, |
| 1:37.9 | Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. |
| 1:43.4 | To be whole, to be complete. |
| 1:46.3 | Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to, rather than what we are separate from. |
| 1:54.1 | Well, her latest book is out now, and it's called The Glorians. |
| 1:58.3 | Terry Tempest Williams, welcome back to the show. |
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