Little Happier - James Baldwin’s Meditation on Love Explains Why I Know the Weather in Kansas City

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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James Baldwin’s beautiful meditation on the nature of love made me realize why I always know the weather in Kansas City. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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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0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Half Year.
0:33.0	I recently read Nothing Personal, the 1964 Book of Essays by James Baldwin and photographs by
0:39.8	Richard Avidon, a collaboration of two brilliant artists. My favorite part was a passage where James
0:47.4	Baldwin wrote about the nature of love. He wrote, pretend for example that you were born in
0:55.9	Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map
1:01.8	for you, pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with
1:08.4	a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately
1:14.8	cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people
1:20.4	live in Hong Kong, but you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot
1:26.8	live. And this is how our lives are changed. And this is how we are redeemed.
1:34.8	What a journey this life is, dependent entirely on things unseen.
1:40.4	If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to
1:46.8	Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you,
1:54.8	as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about
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