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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Little Happier: A Story About Love from “A Wrinkle in Time”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

A passage from “A Wrinkle in Time,” a masterpiece of children’s literature, holds a subtle but important lesson about human nature and the transformative power of love. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Channel 4 would like to welcome you back into the bake-off tent for a well-deserved

0:06.7

dollop of distraction.

0:08.6

Forget life's mistakes and lose yourself in cakes.

0:13.0

Empty your head.

0:14.0

Fill it with baked goods instead.

0:16.0

Get away from it all.

0:18.0

Watch some handshakes from Paul.

0:20.0

Ah, sweet relief.

0:22.0

The Great British Bake-off. Be a style baker, and stream the new series now on channel 4.

0:29.0

All the big names are here. Oh, who is that?

0:33.0

I think she was in the movie about that really big shark.

0:36.0

No, not her, the forest.

0:38.0

She's automating invoices on the go so she can spend more time on that flower wall.

0:42.0

Quickbooks to save you up to eight hours a week,

0:45.2

so you could bring your vision to life.

0:47.2

That's how you business differently.

0:48.9

Into it Quickbooks.

0:50.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. I love to read and even as an adult I love to read children's literature.

0:59.0

Perhaps because I've reread them more often and often because they come from my childhood.

1:04.5

I often find myself reflecting on passages from children's novels.

1:09.4

One novel that I've read and re-read many times, perhaps dozens of times, is Madeline Langel's masterpiece,

1:16.5

The Newberry Award winning a wrinkle in time.

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