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

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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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: [email protected] 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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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